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Shipping production AI, in public.

Essays on Retrieval-Augmented Generation, LangChain in production, and the realities of architecting AI systems inside large enterprises.

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The High Cost of Convenience: Why I Choose Postgres over MongoDB for Production LangChain Checkpointing

A systems-minded take on total cost of ownership and architectural control: why Postgres and PostgresSaver beat MongoDB Atlas for production LangChain agents—and when the 'boring' stack wins.

Feb 28, 2026

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