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Roomly Developer Guide

A task-oriented guide to building on Roomly's proposed student housing API — from your first request to a full housing dashboard.

Roomly API Specification

Proposed API specification for exposing Roomly's student housing data, property listings, availability, locations, and market information to developers.

Roomly caretaker guide: activation, listings, and withdrawals

How to activate your caretaker account, list your first property, withdraw earnings, and manage reviews on Roomly.

Roomly student guide: login, booking, and roommate ads

A simple walkthrough of Roomly's core student flows — signing up, booking an apartment, and posting or viewing roommate ads.

How Autoscaling Actually Decides to Scale

The mechanics behind Kubernetes' Horizontal Pod Autoscaler — the control loop, the actual scaling formula, and where the defaults quietly work against you.

What It Actually Costs to Run an LLM in Production

Managed API vs. self-hosted GPUs, the formula behind both, and why 'what does it cost to run an LLM' rarely has one honest answer.

Serverless vs. Containers for AI Workloads: A Decision Framework

Not which is better — which workload shape you actually have. A practical framework for choosing between serverless and containers when you're serving AI models.

How RAG Actually Works: From Query to Response

A grounded, mechanics-first look at retrieval-augmented generation — what it solves, how the pipeline actually works, and where it quietly breaks.

Build a RAG Pipeline from Scratch: A Node.js + TypeScript Walkthrough

A hands-on, start-to-finish tutorial: install the tools, get your API keys, build a working RAG pipeline in TypeScript, then harden it with real error handling.

Recursive zk-SNARKs: the mechanism that keeps Mina succinct

What a zk-SNARK actually is, and how recursion lets Mina represent its whole blockchain in a constant, succinct proof.

How does Mina keep an entire blockchain at 22KB?

What Mina is actually doing, and what the 22KB (now closer to 11KB) figure means in practice.

Anthropic: The Fastest Re-Rating in Tech History, and the Number Nobody's Checking

Anthropic went from a $61.5 billion company to a $965 billion one in fourteen months. The headline revenue number driving that isn't the number you think it is.

Dangote: From Trading Commodities to Owning the Infrastructure Behind Them

Dangote isn't a cement company or a rich-man story. It's a decades-long bet on owning supply chains, and this month a new part of it goes public.