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Secure memory architecture diagrams on a laptop.
December 31, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Guarded Memory and Session Isolation: Protecting User State

How to design memory layers that isolate user state, prevent leakage, and enforce policy boundaries.

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Security-focused workspace with system diagrams.
December 30, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Prompt Injection Defense Architecture: Practical Security Layers

A security-first blueprint for protecting LLM systems from prompt injection and data exfiltration.

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Secure routing paths across systems and services.
December 30, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Secure Prompt Routing: Keeping Sensitive Inputs Isolated

How to route prompts securely across models and tools without leaking sensitive data.

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Researcher writing formal logic on a glass board.
December 29, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Neural-Symbolic Systems: Combining LLMs With Formal Reasoning

How neural-symbolic architectures merge LLM flexibility with rule-based precision for high-stakes domains.

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Documentation and transparency reports on a desk.
December 29, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Model Cards and Transparency: Communicating Capabilities and Limits

A practical guide to writing model cards that communicate capabilities, limitations, and safe usage.

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Abstract wave patterns representing state space dynamics.
December 28, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

State Space Models and Mamba: A New Path Beyond Transformers

An engineering-focused look at state space models, Mamba, and where they outperform attention-based architectures.

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Latency budget charts and pipeline timings.
December 28, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

RAG End-to-End Latency Budgeting: Where the Milliseconds Go

A technical guide to budgeting latency across retrieval, reranking, prompting, and generation stages.

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Close-up of hardware components representing model compression.
December 27, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Model Compression and Distillation: Smaller Models, Real Gains

A practical guide to compressing LLMs with quantization, pruning, and distillation while preserving quality.

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Structured prompt templates and context controls on a laptop.
December 27, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Prompt Structure and Context Control: Engineering Predictable Behavior

Designing prompts with strict structure and context controls to reduce variance and improve reliability.

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Review session focused on retrieval evaluation results.
December 26, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Retrieval Evaluation and Grounding: Measuring What Actually Matters

How to evaluate retrieval systems and grounding quality in RAG pipelines with practical metrics and workflows.

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Quality assurance review with test reports.
December 26, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

LLM Regression Testing: Preventing Silent Quality Drops

How to build regression suites that catch quality drops across prompts, models, and retrieval systems.

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Engineers discussing training efficiency at a workstation.
December 25, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Sequence Parallelism: Scaling Context Without Breaking Training

A technical guide to sequence parallelism and how it improves training efficiency for long-context models.

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