MirahLabs Engineering Blog
Technical insights, architectural deep-dives, and system designs authored by our product engineers and AI research leads.
Monitoring Flask Applications with Prometheus and Grafana
Learn how to instrument a Flask application with Prometheus metrics, build a Grafana dashboard, and set up alerting rules that notify your team before users notice problems.
gRPC vs REST vs GraphQL: Choosing the Right API Protocol
REST is the default, but gRPC excels for internal microservice communication and GraphQL shines for complex client-driven queries. This guide helps you choose the right protocol for each use case.
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.
Migrating from EC2 to ECS Fargate: A Step-by-Step Transition Guide
Moving workloads from raw virtual machines to serverless container orchestration reduces operational overhead. Learn how to containerize and deploy to ECS Fargate.
Quantization Techniques for LLMs: FP16 to INT4 and GPTQ
Deploying LLMs on local hardware requires massive memory footprint reductions. Learn how post-training quantization techniques like GPTQ and GGUF compress models from FP16 to INT4.
CI Pipeline Optimization: Cutting Build Times by 70%
Slow CI pipelines kill developer momentum. Learn how to use layer caching, parallelization, test splitting, and selective testing to cut your pipeline from 20 minutes to under 6.