3 Months Using Gemini API as My App Backend — An Indie Developer's Honest Review
I adopted Gemini API as the backbone for a new app and ran it in production for three months. Here is what the costs, latency, and quality actually looked like — and how I split work across Gemini, Claude, and GPT-4o.
Building a Type-Safe AI Backend with Gemini API, tRPC v11, and Prisma — Real-Time Streaming, Auth Middleware, and Production Deployment
Learn how to integrate Gemini API streaming into tRPC v11 subscriptions, persist conversations type-safely with Prisma, and handle auth middleware, rate limiting, and common production pitfalls — all with working code examples.
A Lightweight Gemini Backend with Bun and Hono — Reclaiming the Small Tools of Indie Development
Has your Node and Express Gemini backend grown heavy with dependencies and build times? Here is how I moved one to Bun and Hono — folding streaming, rate limiting, cost caps, testing, and self-hosting into a single light runtime — along with the pitfalls I hit in production.
Building a Production-Grade Gemini API Backend with NestJS — DI, Filters, and Guards
A practical pattern for wrapping the Gemini API in a NestJS backend. Covers DI-based service design, SSE streaming, exception filters, guards, multi-model Flash-to-Pro fallback, exponential-backoff retries, and measured latency/token metrics.