·3 min
Dokki: a RAG pipeline in three planes
Documents in, grounded answers with sources out — split into a data, control, and query plane on the existing MJTHD stack.
airagarchitecturedokki
WRITING
Blog
Build logs, post-mortems, and notes worth keeping. Newest first.
·3 min
What an MVP is — and the different types
Minimum Viable Product, properly understood: not half a solution, but the fastest experiment to learn something real.
productmvpprocess
·2 min
Why a bad ingest can't break Dokki
Immutable versions, snapshots as a manifest, and rollback as a mere pointer flip — how Dokki protects the production corpus.
airagversioningdokki
·2 min
Double Diamond: first the right problem, then the right solution
A design process in four phases — and why most of the work happens before the first solution idea.
designproductprocess
·2 min
The quality gate: no bad snapshot goes live
A two-stage check before every promotion — a cheap sanity check, then an eval set against the active snapshot. Activation only at equal or better quality.
airagevaldokki
·3 min
Grounded answers: retrieval, pgvector, and embedding consistency
How Dokki turns a question into top-k chunks of the active snapshot — HNSW on halfvec, a shared embedding model, and sources you can look up.
airagretrievaldokki
·1 min
Cutting Next.js telemetry
Turning off the data collection that ships on by default — in dev, in CI, and in the image.
next.jsprivacy
·1 min
Shipping a site with Gitea CI and ArgoCD
The deploy pipeline behind this page: build once, sync from git, route two domains to one service.
kubernetesgitopsci
·1 min
A place to put things
Why this site exists, and what you'll find here.
metawriting