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The Honest Parts: Residency, Tenancy, and Saying No
May 27, 2026 Ai

The Honest Parts: Residency, Tenancy, and Saying No

You cannot reliably detect where an LLM runs inference. Any product claiming otherwise is overclaiming. This is about the Aegis design decisions th...

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Guardrails That Tell You the Truth About Streaming
May 20, 2026 Ai

Guardrails That Tell You the Truth About Streaming

A guardrail that silently runs at reduced fidelity is worse than no guardrail, because you've stopped watching. The hardest design problem in the A...

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Rebuilding an AI Gateway as a Framework, Not a Product
May 13, 2026 Ai

Rebuilding an AI Gateway as a Framework, Not a Product

The first version of Aegis worked, and that was the problem. Every governance feature was hardcoded into one request path, so every change was a co...

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Advanced RAG: Hybrid Search with Sparse and Dense Retrieval Plus Cross Encoder Reranking
December 29, 2025 Ai

Advanced RAG: Hybrid Search with Sparse and Dense Retrieval Plus Cross Encoder Reranking

Learn how to upgrade your RAG system with hybrid search combining sparse (BM25) and dense (vector) retrieval, enhanced with cross encoder reranking...

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Building Aegis An Enterprise AI Gateway
November 25, 2025 Ai

Building Aegis An Enterprise AI Gateway

How to build an enterprise-grade AI gateway: a provider-agnostic LLM routing layer with deterministic compliance, PII protection, and intelligent c...

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Building a Local RAG System for Document Question Answering
January 16, 2025 Ai

Building a Local RAG System for Document Question Answering

A practical guide to building a retrieval-augmented generation system for document question answering using local LLMs. Learn how to overcome outda...

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