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Building Production-Grade LLM Applications: Lessons from 20+ Deployments

After deploying over 20 LLM-powered applications to production, we've learned what makes the difference between a promising demo and a reliable product. Here's everything we wish we knew.

Revan Engineering 12 min readDec 10, 2024
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EngineeringNov 28, 2024

The Zero-Downtime Migration Playbook: Moving 50M Records to a New Database

How we migrated a production PostgreSQL database with 50 million records to a new schema with zero downtime and zero data loss using the strangler-fig pattern.

9 min read Revan Engineering
DevOpsNov 15, 2024

Kubernetes in 2025: What Changed and What Matters

A year-in-review of the most impactful Kubernetes changes, deprecations, and best practices that every platform engineer should know about heading into 2025.

8 min read Revan Engineering
CloudOct 30, 2024

How We Cut Our AWS Bill by 62% Without Sacrificing Performance

A deep dive into the FinOps strategies, architectural changes, and tooling that helped one of our clients reduce their cloud spend from $180k/month to $68k/month.

11 min read Revan Engineering
ArchitectureOct 18, 2024

Microservices vs Monolith in 2025: When Each Actually Makes Sense

An honest, opinionated take on the microservices debate. We break down when distributed architecture genuinely helps and when it's just complexity theater.

14 min read Revan Engineering
Startup JourneyOct 5, 2024

Launching a B2B SaaS in 8 Weeks: Our Startup Product Playbook

We've helped 15+ startups go from idea to funded product. Here's the exact framework we use — from discovery sprint to MVP launch to first paying customers.

10 min read Revan Engineering
EngineeringSep 22, 2024

Golang Concurrency Patterns Every Senior Engineer Should Know

From goroutine pools to fan-out/fan-in patterns to context propagation — a practical guide to writing concurrent Go code that's correct, readable, and production-safe.

16 min read Revan Engineering
AISep 10, 2024

The AI Engineering Stack in 2025

A comprehensive overview of the tools, frameworks, and architectures that make up a modern AI engineering stack — from data ingestion to model serving.

13 min read Revan Engineering

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