https://tools-hut.com/articles/index.html Practical engineering, AI and personal-finance guides with working code from Tools-Hut. en Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tools-hut.com/articles/prompt-engineering-as-code.html https://tools-hut.com/articles/prompt-engineering-as-code.html Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Store prompts as Jinja2 templates in git, run eval suites in GitHub Actions on every PR, deploy per-environment versions, A/B test in production — the engineering discipline prompts deserve. https://tools-hut.com/articles/building-ai-chatbots.html https://tools-hut.com/articles/building-ai-chatbots.html Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The four chatbot tiers — scripted, LLM prompt-based, RAG-powered, and agentic — explained with architecture diagrams, real implementation patterns, and a platform comparison guide. https://tools-hut.com/articles/production-llm-applications.html https://tools-hut.com/articles/production-llm-applications.html Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rate limits with jitter, prompt caching for 90% cost reduction, per-request token budgets, fallback model chains, streaming latency optimization, and the observability stack every LLM app needs. https://tools-hut.com/articles/ai-coding-assistants-field-guide.html https://tools-hut.com/articles/ai-coding-assistants-field-guide.html Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT A tool-by-tool field guide to AI coding assistants: what each is best at, the habits that work in all of them, how to pick one, and how to use them safely on real codebases. 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Wire formats you can inspect with curl, a decision table, browser connection limits, auth gotchas, and when to use SSE, WebSocket, long polling or gRPC streaming. https://tools-hut.com/articles/spring-boot-sse-streaming.html https://tools-hut.com/articles/spring-boot-sse-streaming.html Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Build production-grade SSE endpoints in Spring Boot: SseEmitter and reactive Flux versions, heartbeats, Last-Event-ID replay, cleanup, testing with curl, and the mistakes that cause leaks and silent disconnects. https://tools-hut.com/articles/spring-boot-websocket-stomp.html https://tools-hut.com/articles/spring-boot-websocket-stomp.html Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Build WebSocket endpoints in Spring Boot with raw handlers and STOMP, configure heartbeats, message-size and slow-client limits, authenticate the handshake and CONNECT frame, and scale beyond one server. https://tools-hut.com/articles/streaming-timeouts-proxies-load-balancers.html https://tools-hut.com/articles/streaming-timeouts-proxies-load-balancers.html Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every layer between browser and Spring Boot has an idle or response timeout that can silently kill SSE and WebSocket connections. A layer-by-layer reference, configuration for each, failure signatures and a probe script to measure yours. https://tools-hut.com/articles/streaming-performance-virtual-threads-webflux.html https://tools-hut.com/articles/streaming-performance-virtual-threads-webflux.html Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT What actually limits SSE and WebSocket scale in Spring Boot: connection limits, slow consumers, thread models, fan-out cost and reconnect storms. Includes metrics to add, a load-test script and a tuning checklist. https://tools-hut.com/articles/streaming-llm-tokens-spring-ai.html https://tools-hut.com/articles/streaming-llm-tokens-spring-ai.html Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stream model output to the browser token by token with Spring AI and Server-Sent Events. 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Includes templates you can copy. https://tools-hut.com/articles/agent-protocols-mcp-a2a.html https://tools-hut.com/articles/agent-protocols-mcp-a2a.html Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Understand the layers of the agent ecosystem, what the Model Context Protocol standardises versus agent-to-agent protocols, and build, run and test a working MCP server in Python with notes on security and versioning. https://tools-hut.com/articles/platform-engineering-golden-paths.html https://tools-hut.com/articles/platform-engineering-golden-paths.html Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT What an internal developer platform is, how to start with one golden path, a Backstage catalog and template example, how to treat the platform as a product, and the metrics that show whether it works. https://tools-hut.com/articles/small-language-models-on-device-ai.html https://tools-hut.com/articles/small-language-models-on-device-ai.html Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT When a small language model beats a frontier model: privacy, latency, cost and offline use. 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