MirahLabs Engineering Blog
Technical insights, tutorials, and architectures written by our design and backend engineers.
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.
Understanding LLM Hallucinations: Causes, Detection, and Prevention
LLM hallucinations—confidently wrong answers—are the most critical reliability challenge in production AI. Learn why they happen, how to detect them, and architectural strategies to minimize them.
Cache Invalidation Strategies: Write-Through, Write-Behind, and Cache-Aside
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and gaming names. Demystify write-through, write-behind, and cache-aside patterns.
The Staff Engineer's Guide to Technical Decision Making
Staff engineers are expected to make decisions that impact the entire organization. Learn how to use RFCs, Architecture Decision Records, decision matrices, and influence without authority to drive good technical outcomes.
API Versioning Strategies: URL, Header, and Media Type Versioning Compared
Changing API behaviors can break client integrations. Compare URL-based, custom header, and content-negotiation API versioning strategies.
WebSockets vs Server-Sent Events vs Long Polling: Real-Time Web Comparison
Real-time features require different transport mechanisms depending on communication pattern, browser support requirements, and scale. Compare WebSockets, SSE, and long polling with concrete Flask examples.