#monorepo

DevOps & CI/CD

Halving CI time: a practical guide to speeding up slow pipelines

Ryan Pham · Jun 17, 2026 · 5 min read

Our main pipeline took 34 minutes, and engineers batched changes to avoid waiting, which made reviews worse. We cut it to 14 minutes without new hardware magic: measure the critical path, parallelise, cache the right layers, split tests by timing and build only what changed.

AI & Machine Learning

A production RAG repo layout: separating ingestion, retrieval, serving and evals

John Nguyen · Mar 17, 2025 · 7 min read

Our RAG prototype was one folder where the PDF loader, the vector client and the API route imported each other freely. Here is the layout we moved to: four packages with enforced boundaries, a shared contract module, versioned indexes and an eval gate in CI.