The Raj Cloud blog

Engineering notes, shipping stories.

We're publishing in the open: lesson plans, capstone post-mortems, and the small decisions that make our cohorts work. New posts land in your inbox the day they ship.

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Cloud8 min read

Why we teach Kubernetes before Helm — and why it matters

Helm hides too many footguns until you've felt them yourself. Here's the order we walk students through, and the bugs they hit first.

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AI/ML12 min read

Fine-tuning vs. RAG: a decision tree for engineers

A practical framework for picking the right approach for production LLM systems, with the trade-offs we've seen in our own capstone deployments.

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Fullstack10 min read

How we onboard cohorts to multi-tenant SaaS in week one

Auth, RLS, and a real billing flow — all wired before the second cohort meet-up. The exact sequence we use.

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