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Building a bilingual blog with Next.js

How this blog ships every post in English and Spanish from plain markdown, with a typed frontmatter contract and zero runtime services.

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RAG in production: lessons from the Chatbook assistant

What worked (and what did not) taking a RAG pipeline to real hotels over WhatsApp, from chunking strategy to answer grounding.

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CI/CD without drama: GitHub Actions + Docker

The minimal pipeline I use to deploy with confidence several times a day, and the few rules that keep it boring.

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Clean architecture in FastAPI without overengineering

Where I draw the layer boundaries in a real FastAPI service, and where I deliberately stop drawing them.

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PostgreSQL query optimization in a fintech backend

A field guide to the queries that actually get slow in lending systems, and the indexes and rewrites that fixed them.

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Practical TDD: when it pays off and when it does not

Test-first is a tool, not a religion. The kinds of code where TDD earns its keep, and the kinds where I write tests after.

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