https://kevinkattakayam.dev/blog/ Kevin Kattakayam is a software engineer graduating in 2027, working on multi-agent LLM systems, RAG, computer vision and distributed backends in Go, Rust and Python. en https://kevinkattakayam.dev/blog/at-least-once-without-losing-sleep/ https://kevinkattakayam.dev/blog/at-least-once-without-losing-sleep/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT How my observability pipeline commits Kafka offsets, and why a circuit breaker turns a database outage into lag instead of loss. https://kevinkattakayam.dev/blog/a-jargon-firewall-for-llm-outputs/ https://kevinkattakayam.dev/blog/a-jargon-firewall-for-llm-outputs/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Using Pydantic validators to stop a medical assistant from inventing terminology, instead of hoping the prompt is enough.