The lab notebook.
Field reports, benchmarks and honest ledgers — written after the experiments, not before.
- 2026-06-24[NOTE-001]
Leaving US clouds: a field report
Twelve months after moving our stack from US hyperscalers to self-hosted EU infrastructure: what broke, what got cheaper, and what we'd do differently.
#sovereignty#infrastructure#coolify
- 2026-06-02[NOTE-002]
RAG beyond the demo
Every RAG demo works. Most RAG systems don't. The difference is retrieval engineering — and it is measurable.
#rag#retrieval#evaluation
- 2026-05-12[NOTE-003]
Why we run LLMs locally
Cloud APIs are the easy default. Here is what changed our math: latency you control, prices that don't move, and data that never crosses the Atlantic.
#local-llm#ollama#sovereignty