AI Engineering11 min read
Context window management for production AI agents
How to manage context windows in production AI agents. The 4 strategies that keep long sessions bounded without losing critical context.
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AI Engineering11 min read
How to manage context windows in production AI agents. The 4 strategies that keep long sessions bounded without losing critical context.
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How to sanitize agent API inputs beyond frontend validation. Prompt injection defense, payload limits, and the 4 layers every agent service needs.
AI Engineering in Practice11 min read
How to version an agentic API without breaking clients. The URL prefix pattern, the deprecation playbook, and when to ship v2.
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Why uv replaces pip, pip-tools, and poetry for production agentic AI services. The speed, the lockfile, and the 5-minute migration.
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How to wire Langfuse into an agentic AI service for full observability. The trace hierarchy, the decorator pattern, and what to log per span.
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How coding agents remember context across sessions. The memory store, the recall pattern, and the 3 kinds of memory every agent should keep.
AI Engineering in Practice11 min read
How to cut Docker build time for agentic AI images from 8 minutes to 40 seconds. The layer order rule, the cache mount, and the trap beginners hit.
AI Engineering in Practice11 min read
How to use JWTs for agentic API auth. The claims that matter, the refresh rotation pattern, and the middleware that keeps long-running agents logged in.
AI Engineering in Practice11 min read
How to rate limit a FastAPI agent service. Token buckets per user, burst control, and the Redis pattern that survives multi-worker deployments.
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Why exposing DB models as API responses leaks sensitive fields. The Pydantic separation pattern, the 3 schema layers, and the safe FastAPI response.
AI Engineering in Practice11 min read
How to model users and conversation sessions for multi-tenant AI agents. The schema, the tenant guard, and the pattern that scales to thousands.
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Why your agentic AI service hits 'broken pipe' errors at 100 users and how SQLAlchemy connection pools fix it. The sizing rule and the lifespan pattern.