Eight Mile · Writing

Articles

Engineering notes, write-ups and the occasional opinion.

AI

LLM vs LRM vs LDM

A concise guide to three model families shaping language, reasoning, and generation.

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2 min read

AI

Better PII Redaction

Combine rule-based detection with lightweight NER for safer, practical sensitive-data masking.

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4 min read

Databases

Vector Search in Postgres

Using pgvector for embeddings without adding another database, covering index choice, filtering, quantisation and the point at which you should move off it.

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9 min read

Databases

OpenSearch

A practical tour of how OpenSearch stores and scores documents, where teams usually go wrong with mappings and shards, and what it costs to run.

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9 min read

AI

Vector Databases

How similarity search works under the hood, what the index types trade against each other, and how to choose a store without over engineering the problem.

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9 min read

AI

Securing AI Systems

The threats specific to language model applications, why prompt injection has no clean fix, and the architectural decisions that actually contain the damage.

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9 min read

AI

LangChain and LangGraph

What each library actually does, where the split between them lies, when a framework earns its place in your stack, and when plain code is the better answer.

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6 min read

AI

LLMOps in Practice

What it takes to run a language model feature in production: evaluation, versioning, cost control, observability, and the failures monitoring never catches.

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7 min read

AI

How RAG Works

Retrieval augmented generation explained properly: what happens at each stage, why the retrieval half is where projects succeed or fail, and how to evaluate it.

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8 min read

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1 min read

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1 min read