A dashboard showing personal data visualizations

Building a Personal Event-Driven Data Pipeline: A Portfolio Project for Systems Engineers

Learn to build a scalable, event-driven personal data pipeline using FastAPI, Kafka, and PostgreSQL — a portfolio project that signals senior-level systems thinking.

September 8, 2026 · 8 min · 1637 words · martinuke0
User safety service architecture diagram

User Safety: A Hands-On Portfolio Project for Real‑World Engineering

A step‑by‑step guide to building a user‑safety service with FastAPI, Postgres, Celery and Docker that you can run, test, and extend for senior‑level impact.

September 8, 2026 · 10 min · 2092 words · martinuke0
Diagram showing a webhook sender, retry queue, dead-letter store, and a downstream receiver.

Building a Webhook Delivery System with Idempotency Keys: A Production-Flavored Portfolio Project

Ship a real webhook delivery service with idempotency, retries, and a dead-letter queue — a portfolio project that signals genuine distributed-systems skill to hiring managers.

September 1, 2026 · 11 min · 2183 words · martinuke0
FastAPI service diagram showing async request flow to a GPU inference worker.

FastAPI for AI Engineers: Production Patterns That Actually Ship

How to build FastAPI services that survive contact with GPU workloads, long inference calls, and real users. Patterns, anti-patterns, and production code.

September 1, 2026 · 9 min · 1811 words · martinuke0

FastAPI Production-Ready Best Practices for LLM Applications: A Comprehensive Guide

FastAPI’s speed, async capabilities, and automatic API documentation make it ideal for building production-grade APIs serving Large Language Models (LLMs). This guide details best practices for deploying scalable, secure FastAPI applications handling LLM inference, streaming responses, and high-throughput requests.[1][3][5] LLM APIs often face unique challenges: high memory usage, long inference times, streaming outputs, and massive payloads. We’ll cover project structure, async optimization, security, deployment, and LLM-specific patterns like token streaming and caching. ...

January 6, 2026 · 7 min · 1337 words · martinuke0
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