Skip to main content

System Architecture — A Comprehensive, Practical Guide

·1499 words·8 mins
Designing and evolving system architecture is about making informed trade‑offs. This guide provides a practical, opinionated walkthrough of the core concepts, patterns, and decisions you need to build scalable, reliable, and cost‑efficient systems—plus answers to the most common questions engineers and architects ask.

Document Summarization: Eval First

·408 words·2 mins
Document summarization is a critical NLP task that helps users quickly grasp key information from long documents. But how do you know if your model is actually working? This guide shows a workflow that starts with evaluation and acceptance criteria before touching models.

RAG with LangChain: Architecture, Code, and Metrics

·1240 words·6 mins
RAG is a design pattern, not a product. LangChain supports it out of the box. This guide shows a production-ready RAG setup in LangChain with architecture, retrieval choices, runnable code, evaluation metrics, and trade-offs from my client projects.

LightRAG: Lean RAG with Benchmarks

·800 words·4 mins
LightRAG is a minimal RAG toolkit that strips away heavy abstractions. Here’s a complete build with code, performance numbers versus a LangChain baseline, and when LightRAG is the right choice.