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Thoughts on engineering, AI, and building distributed systems.

• Your Biggest Customer Might Be Your Biggest Bottleneck

  Aug 29, 2025

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  Simple FIFO queues are not viable for multi-tenant systems. I explain why fair queuing is a must and how I built Broccoli to address this issue.

• Accurate Hallucination Detection With NER

  Jan 7, 2025

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  Using a LLM-as-a-judge for hallucinations is slow and imprecise relative to simple NER. We share how we solved hallucination detection at Trieve.

• How We Built 300μs Typo Detection for 1.3M Words in Rust

  Sep 9, 2024

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  We explain how we built blazingly fast spellcheck in Rust using BKTrees, Redis queues, and Clickhouse in this blog.