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·10 min read

The Consensus Algorithm

A breakdown of Raft: how distributed servers elect a leader, replicate logs, and stay consistent even when nodes fail.

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·35 min read

The Art of Retrieval

Every retrieval algorithm exists because the previous one had a flaw. This is a deep dive into how search evolved, and why it had to.

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·4 min read

Building a Simple Real-Time Voice Agent with LiveKit

A hands-on walkthrough of building a real-time voice agent with LiveKit, wiring up the full STT to LLM to TTS loop so you can have back-and-forth voice conversations.

LiveKitVoice AgentSpeech-to-Text
·14 min read

How Real-Time Voice Agents Work: Architecture and Latency

A breakdown of how real-time voice agents work under the hood: the two-layer architecture, VAD, STT, LLM, TTS pipeline, and where latency comes from at each stage.

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