operationsJun 2, 2026· 3m
Three windows into one cache: dashboard, Prometheus, logs
The built-in dashboard for humans, /metrics for your Grafana, one JSON line per event for your pipeline, same truth, three consumers, zero adapters.
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.
economicsJun 2, 2026· 3m
Why Crowkis refuses to meter you
A cache exists to make costs predictable. Metering the cache would be self-defeating. So Community is free and Enterprise is flat per cluster, priced on a call, not a meter.
referenceJun 2, 2026· 3m
How to use CBUDGET: read per-tenant spend and alerts
CBUDGET reports token and dollar consumption per tenant in real time, and surfaces the tenants approaching or crossing their thresholds.
guidesJun 2, 2026· 4m
Let Claude Code use the cache: Crowkis over MCP
One config block turns Crowkis into a tool an AI assistant can hold, check the cache, store the answer, over MCP, with the same trust pipeline as every other write.
engineeringJun 2, 2026· 8m
How Crowkis earned the right to sit in your critical path
347 integration tests, a smoke suite that kills the process on purpose, and a Docker image hardened before anyone asked. The receipts behind 'production-ready.'
guidesJun 1, 2026· 4m
Cache LangChain.js in your chatbot with Crowkis
Building chatbots on LangChain.js? Add a semantic cache so high-volume conversational traffic that repeats constantly stop costing full price.
guidesJun 1, 2026· 4m
Cache Ollama in your multi-agent system with Crowkis
Building multi-agent systems on Ollama? Add a semantic cache so a swarm of agents asking overlapping questions stop costing full price.
guidesJun 1, 2026· 4m
Cache Semantic Kernel in your IT helpdesk bot with Crowkis
Building IT helpdesk bots on Semantic Kernel? Add a semantic cache so the same tickets and fixes, endlessly stop costing full price.
guidesJun 1, 2026· 4m
Cache LangChain in your meeting-notes summarizer with Crowkis
Building meeting-notes summarizers on LangChain? Add a semantic cache so similar summaries requested repeatedly stop costing full price.
featuresJun 1, 2026· 5m
MCP server for AI apps: how it works and when to use it
MCP server for AI apps, doubles as an MCP server over stdio, so Claude and any MCP-capable agent can check the cache and store what they compute. Here's how Crowkis does it and why it matters for cost and safety.
featuresJun 1, 2026· 3m
CINVALIDATE: purge the cache by meaning, with a preview before you commit
Sometimes you need to clear 'everything about the old pricing', a fuzzy, semantic set. CINVALIDATE takes a natural-language instruction, previews what it would purge, and only acts on COMMIT.
engineeringJun 1, 2026· 3m
HNSW without the network hop: why the vector index lives inside the engine
Most semantic caches call out to a vector database. Crowkis embeds the HNSW graph in-process, and that placement decision is worth more than any algorithm tweak.
vs the fieldJun 1, 2026· 3m
Crowkis vs LiteLLM-style gateways: caching is not a checkbox
Python gateways treat caching as one feature among forty. Crowkis treats it as the product, and ships it without a Python supply chain attached.
referenceJun 1, 2026· 3m
How to use CDEDUP: collapse near-duplicate answers
CDEDUP finds entries that mean the same thing and collapses them, reporting clusters and memory reclaimed, best run as off-peak maintenance.
guidesMay 31, 2026· 4m
Cache LangChain.js in your AI search with Crowkis
Building AI search on LangChain.js? Add a semantic cache so popular queries hit again and again stop costing full price.
guidesMay 31, 2026· 4m
Cache Ollama in your voice assistant with Crowkis
Building voice assistants on Ollama? Add a semantic cache so latency-sensitive, repetitive spoken queries stop costing full price.
guidesMay 31, 2026· 4m
Cache Semantic Kernel in your sales enablement tool with Crowkis
Building sales enablement tools on Semantic Kernel? Add a semantic cache so reps asking the same product questions stop costing full price.
guidesMay 31, 2026· 4m
Cache LangChain in your SQL generation tool with Crowkis
Building SQL generation tools on LangChain? Add a semantic cache so the same schema questions and query shapes stop costing full price.
guidesMay 31, 2026· 5m
How to cache LangChain LLM calls with Crowkis
Add a semantic cache to LangChain so repeated and reworded questions are served for free, no rewrite, self-hosted.
securityMay 31, 2026· 3m
Tenant isolation as physics, not policy
A WHERE clause is a promise; a namespace is a wall. How Crowkis makes cross-tenant leakage structurally impossible rather than procedurally unlikely.