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Notes from inside the routing layer

How we build KEEL Core — concurrency, classification, token economics, and the systems primitives underneath every TALON AI request.

Systems & InfrastructureEngineering Journey

Seeing the Traffic: Why We Built Talon Keel as a Streaming Reverse Proxy

Before you can optimize AI infrastructure, you have to see it. A first-person account of building the Talon Keel reverse proxy — a drop-in OpenAI-compatible pipeline with a sub-5ms overhead budget that makes cognitive routing possible.

September 16, 20265 min read

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Systems & InfrastructureEngineering Journey

Under the Hood of High-Throughput AI: How We Built an Async API Engine in Week 1

A high school engineering intern's week-one journey through AsyncIO concurrency, HTTP/2 mechanics, Git workflows, and Pydantic data validation — the foundational primitives powering TALON AI's sub-10ms routing engine.

August 7, 20268 min read

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Stop Paying Top-Tier Prices for Basic String Utilities.

Route intelligently, prune aggressively, and reserve frontier reasoning for the requests that actually need it. Two lines of code, sub-10ms overhead.

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