https://ashvolt.github.io/blog/ Engineering notes on full-stack development, AI engineering, and system design. en Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:26:55 GMT https://ashvolt.github.io/blog/building-rag-agent-from-scratch/ https://ashvolt.github.io/blog/building-rag-agent-from-scratch/ Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT What I learned building a retrieval-augmented agent with ChromaDB, Sentence Transformers, and a local llama3 — without LangChain hiding the interesting parts. https://ashvolt.github.io/blog/micro-frontends-enterprise-lessons/ https://ashvolt.github.io/blog/micro-frontends-enterprise-lessons/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lessons from building a log intelligence micro frontend serving ~1,200 concurrent users at Dell — where the architecture decisions that mattered weren't the ones in the conference talks. https://ashvolt.github.io/blog/spec-driven-development-ai/ https://ashvolt.github.io/blog/spec-driven-development-ai/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI-assisted development has been in my production workflow since 2022. The engineers getting 10x from it aren't prompting harder — they're specifying better.