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How MOKS reorders authorized RAG passages with a PyTorch cross-encoder on CPU: the service, fallback rules, Kubernetes deployment and what was measured.
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How I use FastAPI and FastMCP in RoboShop AI and MOKS: real routes, tools, auth, transports and limits, and why the two never share a process.
19 min read
What the RoboShop AI gateway really does: authorization, LLM configuration, chat admission and time budgets, and why it never calls a model itself.
11 min read
How RoboShop AI separates a normal store from its AI features: services, data owners, request flows, failure boundaries and what runs on EKS today.
12 min read
Moks is a fixed LangGraph pipeline, not a tool-calling agent. How it retrieves evidence, calls one model, validates output and fails safely.
13 min read
A code-level MCP server walkthrough: roles, transports, tool schemas, session forwarding, trust boundaries and the risks that remain in RoboShop AI.
13 min read
How the MOKS SRE agent uses LangGraph for its investigation loop and langchain-core for thin adapters, with real code, a traced run and known gaps.
23 min read
Eight areas where engineering teams make the decisions that matter most right now.
Systems the editor has built, and how they work.
MOKS investigates production problems with live Kubernetes, Prometheus and Loki evidence, keeping observed facts apart from suspected causes.
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How this site works - Next.js on Minikube with PostgreSQL, Redis, Cloudflare R2, built-in admin, audit log, encrypted backups and full observability.
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A polyglot microservices store - TypeScript, Python, Java - with an AI shopping assistant, MCP tools and full observability, deployed with Argo CD.
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