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Notes from the nest · 980 posts

The Roost

Engineering notes written by the people building Crowkis. Comparisons, use cases, economics, internals, security, operations, and nothing written just to rank.

guidesJun 19, 2026· 4m

Cache the Mistral SDK in your email drafting tool with Crowkis

Building email drafting tools on the Mistral SDK? Add a semantic cache so similar drafts requested over and over stop costing full price.

guidesJun 19, 2026· 4m

Cache LiteLLM in your knowledge base assistant with Crowkis

Building knowledge base assistants on LiteLLM? Add a semantic cache so the same lookups across a team all day stop costing full price.

guidesJun 19, 2026· 4m

Cache Haystack in your devops copilot with Crowkis

Building devops copilots on Haystack? Add a semantic cache so the same runbook and incident questions stop costing full price.

guidesJun 19, 2026· 4m

Cache LangChain in your chatbot with Crowkis

Building chatbots on LangChain? Add a semantic cache so high-volume conversational traffic that repeats constantly stop costing full price.

economicsJun 19, 2026· 5m

Per-key budgets and circuit breakers (CBUDGET): how it works and when to use it

Per-key budgets and circuit breakers (CBUDGET), meters spend per tenant and can hard-block upstream calls past a circuit-breaker threshold, so a runaway loop hits a wall before the invoice. Here's how Crowkis does it and why it matters for cost and safety.

referenceJun 19, 2026· 3m

How to use CVECCOUNT: see how many vectors are live

CVECCOUNT returns the live entry count in the vector index, the quickest health signal for a semantic cache.

guidesJun 19, 2026· 5m

A drop-in CachedOpenAI for Node, in one wrapper

The Node SDK ships a typed client and a CachedOpenAI wrapper, keep your OpenAI calls exactly as they are, and a semantic cache slips in underneath.

engineeringJun 19, 2026· 5m

Memcached walked so semantic caches could think

Classic caches taught the industry a durable lesson: never compute the same thing twice. LLMs just changed what 'the same thing' means, from identical bytes to identical meaning.

guidesJun 18, 2026· 4m

Cache Rig (Rust) in your healthcare Q&A assistant with Crowkis

Building healthcare Q&A assistants on Rig (Rust)? Add a semantic cache so recurring policy and triage questions stop costing full price.

guidesJun 18, 2026· 4m

Cache the Mistral SDK in your code review bot with Crowkis

Building code review bots on the Mistral SDK? Add a semantic cache so the same review patterns across pull requests stop costing full price.

guidesJun 18, 2026· 4m

Cache LiteLLM in your research assistant with Crowkis

Building research assistants on LiteLLM? Add a semantic cache so overlapping literature and summary questions stop costing full price.

guidesJun 18, 2026· 4m

Cache Haystack in your API documentation bot with Crowkis

Building API documentation bots on Haystack? Add a semantic cache so the same endpoint questions from every developer stop costing full price.

guidesJun 18, 2026· 4m

Cache LangChain in your AI search with Crowkis

Building AI search on LangChain? Add a semantic cache so popular queries hit again and again stop costing full price.

operationsJun 18, 2026· 5m

Per-tenant rate limits (CKEYLIMIT): how it works and when to use it

Per-tenant rate limits (CKEYLIMIT), caps requests and tokens per minute per tenant, enforced at the cache before the spend happens. Here's how Crowkis does it and why it matters for cost and safety.

featuresJun 18, 2026· 3m

CEVAL: nine evaluators that grade your LLM output without a second LLM

LLM-as-judge is expensive and leaks your data. CEVAL ships nine deterministic evaluators, toxicity, PII, injection-safety, relevance, JSON validity and more, that score input/output pairs locally and track the results over time.

referenceJun 18, 2026· 3m

How to use CFLUSH: clear the semantic cache, by tenant

CFLUSH empties the semantic cache, globally, or scoped to a single tenant so one customer's reset doesn't touch another's.

guidesJun 17, 2026· 4m

Cache Rig (Rust) in your legal document assistant with Crowkis

Building legal document assistants on Rig (Rust)? Add a semantic cache so the same clauses and questions across matters stop costing full price.

guidesJun 17, 2026· 4m

Cache the Mistral SDK in your data analysis agent with Crowkis

Building data analysis agents on the Mistral SDK? Add a semantic cache so repeated tool calls and the same analytical questions stop costing full price.

guidesJun 17, 2026· 4m

Cache LiteLLM in your contract analysis tool with Crowkis

Building contract analysis tools on LiteLLM? Add a semantic cache so the same clause questions across documents stop costing full price.

guidesJun 17, 2026· 4m

Cache Semantic Kernel in your customer support bot with Crowkis

Building customer support bots on Semantic Kernel? Add a semantic cache so repeat questions from every customer, all day stop costing full price.