Engineering

Retrieval, caching, streaming and the plumbing an AI feature runs on.

RAG in one page: retrieve, rank, answer
RAG in one page: retrieve, rank, answer
03/08/2026 — admin@byqreal.test

Retrieval-augmented generation is three steps and a lot of tuning. The architecture is simple; the quality lives almost...

Chunking is the part of RAG nobody tunes
Chunking is the part of RAG nobody tunes
01/08/2026 — admin@byqreal.test

Teams spend weeks on rerankers and leave chunking at the default. It is usually the other way round that pays — how you...

Prompt caching: the cheapest speedup you are not using
Prompt caching: the cheapest speedup you are not using
30/07/2026 — admin@byqreal.test

If every request begins with the same two thousand tokens of instructions, you are paying full price to resend them. Ord...

Streaming responses without breaking your UI
Streaming responses without breaking your UI
28/07/2026 — admin@byqreal.test

Streaming makes a slow response feel fast. It also means rendering text that is syntactically incomplete, and handling a...

Rate limits, retries and the backoff you actually need
Rate limits, retries and the backoff you actually need
26/07/2026 — admin@byqreal.test

Every AI feature meets a 429 eventually. Whether that is a blip or an outage depends on retry logic written before you n...