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Consistent Hashing in Go: Why hash(key) % N Breaks and How a Ring Fixes It

Add one server to a cache cluster that uses hash(key) % N and about 91% of your keys change owner overnight. Consistent hashing cuts that to roughly K/N. We build the ring in Go, add virtual nodes, and measure real remapping and load balance, including the hash function mistake that quietly wrecks it.

Every Prompt Is a Cross-Border Transfer: AI Governance Under Law 2019-014

A company in Lomé or Dakar wires two hundred employees to American inference APIs, and nobody files anything. This article argues that a prompt containing customer data is a transfer of personal data to a third country in the sense of Togo's law 2019-014, that an LLM gateway does not change the legal nature of that transfer but is what makes it declarable, and that the residency options available to a West African company rank very differently on paper than they do once GPU prices, currency exposure and payment friction are counted.

Giving Your Teams a Real AI Budget with LiteLLM

A hands-on guide to putting a gateway between your people and the model vendors, so that every call is attributed to a named person and a team, every team has a ceiling that resets on a schedule, a daily bound contains the runaway agent, and the finance team finally gets a per team breakdown. Covers deployment with Docker and Postgres, teams and keys, stacked budget windows, rate limits, model tiering, request tags for chargeback, PII guardrails, and the day two work nobody warns you about.