After 6 months with LangGraph in production, I’m saying: it’s okay for small projects, but the costs aren’t always upfront.
Let’s get real: I’ve spent the better part of the last six months working with LangGraph for a few projects aimed at conversational AI and automating some backend tasks. We were expecting some straightforward solutions
Hey everyone, Pat Reeves here, back on botsec.net. It’s March 21st, 2026, and I’ve been wrestling with a particular problem that I think a lot of you out there in the bot defense trenches are also grappling with. We’ve talked a lot about protecting our bots from external threats – malicious inputs, DDoS attacks, IP
Claude Code vs Continue: Which One for Startups
According to various surveys, over 60% of startups fail due to mismanaged resources and improper tool selection. When it comes to coding assistants, the debate between Claude Code and Continue is heating up. With tools boasting advanced features to transform the development process, it’s crucial to assess
How to Set Up Monitoring with Weights & Biases (Step by Step)
If you’re managing machine learning experiments and still logging everything to spreadsheets or scattered text files, you’re seriously missing out—weights & biases set up monitoring will save you dozens of painful hours and sleepless nights wrestling with disorganized experiment data.
What You’ll Build
Hey everyone, Pat Reeves here, back on botsec.net. It’s March 20, 2026, and I’ve been wrestling with something that keeps me up at night, especially with the way bots are evolving. Forget your basic DDoS. We’re talking about a much more insidious threat: bots that masquerade as legitimate users, not just for a moment, but
Token Management Checklist: 12 Things Before Going to Production
I’ve seen 3 production deployments totally flop this month. All 3 made the same 5 mistakes, and it’s shocking how often straightforward oversights cause chaos in token management. To prevent your hard work from going down the drain, here’s a solid token management checklist that can
How to Implement Caching with vLLM: Step by Step
We’re going to implement caching in vLLM, which has 73,732 stars on GitHub, and believe me, this matters because effective caching can drastically reduce response times and resource consumption in applications that utilize large language models.
Prerequisites
After evaluating Autogen Studio pricing, I can confidently say it looks deceptively appealing but can become a financial black hole.
If you’re like me—spending hours coding and debugging in the trenches—you know that the costs associated with a platform can often blindside you. I decided to put Autogen Studio through its paces over the last
DSPy vs Haystack: Which One for Side Projects?
DSPy barely registers a blip on the GitHub radar compared to Haystack, but stars alone don’t tell the whole story. When you’re hacking on side projects, the question isn’t who’s got the flashiest metrics—it’s what gets your dirty prototype running fast, easy, and with minimal headaches. So,
LangGraph vs DSPy: Which One for Side Projects
LangChain has 130,068 GitHub stars. DSPy has 32,930 stars. But stars don’t ship features. As a developer who’s been around the block a few times, I’ve seen countless frameworks and tools come and go. You can’t just take a tool at face value based on popularity alone.