Notes From The Build
Deep dives on the infrastructure I build: Aztec indexers, TypeScript SDKs, cross-chain bridges, and how retrieval actually works. RSS.
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How a retriever actually finds the right document
The hardest part of a RAG system runs before the AI ever wakes up. Keyword search, semantic search, a metadata filter, a merge, and one dial nobody touches: the whole retrieval pipeline, minus the jargon.
Publishing my first npm SDK: lessons from @ravenhouse/omni-sdk
Turning a pile of contract calls into a real SDK: subpath exports, dual ESM and CJS builds, types that double as documentation, and the dependency pain nobody warns you about.
How I built a custom Aztec event indexer in Bun and MongoDB
Aztec ships no hosted event indexer, so a marketplace has to build its own. Here is the full design: matching raw logs by event selector, cursor pagination, a bounded parallel fan-out, and idempotent, crash-safe writes.