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Ideas, frameworks, and playbooks for modern product teams.

Clear, practical articles about building digital products that people love. Short, useful, and built for teams that ship.

Search dashboards and filters on a laptop screen.
December 19, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Hybrid Search and Metadata Filters: Precision at Scale

How to combine dense vectors, keyword search, and metadata filters for high-precision retrieval systems.

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Server racks glowing in a modern data center.
December 18, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Model Serving Architecture: From Single GPU to Global Fleet

Design patterns for serving AI models at scale: routing, caching, fallback tiers, and regional deployment.

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Analyst verifying citations and sources.
December 18, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Factuality Evaluation and Citation Quality: Proving Grounded Answers

How to evaluate factuality and citation quality for LLM answers in high-stakes environments.

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Team collaborating around a table with workflow notes.
December 17, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Agentic Workflows and Tool Use: Building Reliable AI Operators

A practical blueprint for agentic systems: tool selection, planning loops, memory, and guardrails that keep agents reliable.

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Risk assessment charts and checklists on a desk.
December 17, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Model Risk Management: Quantifying and Controlling LLM Risk

A practical framework for identifying, scoring, and mitigating risks in LLM-powered products.

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Team analyzing system performance charts.
December 16, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Speculative Decoding and Fast Inference: Making LLMs Feel Instant

A technical guide to speculative decoding, draft models, and system tricks that cut latency without sacrificing quality.

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Team reviewing long-context benchmark results.
December 16, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Long-Context Benchmarking: Measuring What Actually Scales

How to benchmark long-context LLMs with realistic tasks, latency constraints, and retrieval-aware metrics.

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Developers reviewing system logs on a workstation.
December 15, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Distributed Training at Scale: Data, Parallelism, and Stability

A technical guide to scaling model training with data, tensor, and pipeline parallelism while keeping runs stable.

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Sustainable infrastructure and energy efficiency concepts.
December 15, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Energy Efficiency and Carbon-Aware AI: Sustainable LLM Operations

A technical guide to reducing energy use and carbon impact in LLM training and inference.

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December 14, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Multimodal Model Architecture: Unifying Text, Images, and Beyond

How multimodal models combine vision and language, plus the engineering decisions that make them reliable in production.

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December 14, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Multi-Agent Coordination Architecture: Designing Reliable Agent Teams

How to build multi-agent systems with clear roles, coordination protocols, and failure isolation.

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Circuit board with glowing components representing memory systems.
December 13, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

LLM Memory, Context Windows, and Long-Context Design

A deep dive into context windows, memory strategies, and the engineering trade-offs behind long-context LLMs.

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