MirahLabs Engineering Blog
Technical insights, tutorials, and architectures written by our design and backend engineers.
Vector Databases Compared: Pinecone vs Weaviate vs pgvector
A detailed comparison of three leading vector database solutions—Pinecone, Weaviate, and pgvector—covering performance, scalability, cost, and best-fit use cases.
Cloud Cost Optimization: Cutting AWS Bills Without Sacrificing Performance
Cloud bills grow fast if unmanaged. Learn practical strategies to cut AWS costs by 40-60% using reserved instances, Spot fleets, rightsizing, S3 tiering, and transfer cost optimization.
Multi-Region Deployment Strategies for High Availability
Running applications across multiple cloud regions protects against regional outages and reduces latency for global users. Learn active-active, active-passive, and data residency strategies.
Nginx as a Reverse Proxy for Flask: Configuration, SSL, and Performance
Nginx sits in front of your Flask app in production, handling SSL termination, static files, request buffering, and load balancing. Learn the optimal Nginx configuration for Flask deployments.
Infrastructure as Code with Terraform: From Zero to Production
Terraform lets you define cloud infrastructure as declarative code, enabling repeatable, version-controlled deployments. This guide covers modules, state management, and workspace strategies.
Zero Trust Security Architecture for Cloud-Native Applications
Zero Trust replaces the 'trust but verify' perimeter model with 'never trust, always verify.' Learn how to implement Zero Trust principles using mTLS, identity-aware proxies, and micro-segmentation.