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2 postsJuly 2026
Why LLM Apps Must Be Engineered as Distributed Systems
A production AI app broke under load—not because of the model, but missing queues, caching, retries and observability. Backend engineering is the real differentiator.
ai-engineeringdistributed-systemsllmbackendDeterministic AI: Not everything should burn tokens
Stop burning tokens on deterministic work. Learn why scheduled tasks and data transforms belong in your app layer, not your AI agent's context window.
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