GlyIQ Infrastructure Research & Engineering Dispatches https://glyiq.com Cognitive reverse proxies, semantic vector memory, complexity routing, and inference economics from GlyIQ Infrastructure. en-us Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[[Research] Controlling LLM API Cost: A Practical FinOps Guide]]> https://glyiq.com/research/llm-api-cost-optimization https://glyiq.com/research/llm-api-cost-optimization Research Rehan <![CDATA[[Research] Caching for LLM Applications: Response Reuse and Prompt Prefixes]]> https://glyiq.com/research/caching-llm-applications https://glyiq.com/research/caching-llm-applications Research Rehan <![CDATA[[Research] Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Long-Context Input]]> https://glyiq.com/research/rag-vs-long-context https://glyiq.com/research/rag-vs-long-context Research Rehan <![CDATA[[Research] Multi-Agent Workflows: Coordination Cost and Control]]> https://glyiq.com/research/multi-agent-workflows https://glyiq.com/research/multi-agent-workflows Research Rehan <![CDATA[[Research] Small Models, Fine-Tuning, and Serving Economics]]> https://glyiq.com/research/small-models-serving-economics https://glyiq.com/research/small-models-serving-economics Research Rehan <![CDATA[[Research] Preventing Unbounded LLM Consumption]]> https://glyiq.com/research/preventing-unbounded-consumption https://glyiq.com/research/preventing-unbounded-consumption Research Irfan <![CDATA[[Research] Constrained Decoding and Structured Model Output]]> https://glyiq.com/research/constrained-decoding-structured-output https://glyiq.com/research/constrained-decoding-structured-output Research Irfan <![CDATA[[Blog] The Silent AI Budget Crisis: Why Enterprise Generative AI Fails at the Inference Layer (And How to Fix It)]]> https://glyiq.com/blog/silent-ai-budget-crisis https://glyiq.com/blog/silent-ai-budget-crisis Engineering Blog Rehan <![CDATA[[Blog] Reduce LLM API Costs: Where the Tokens Actually Go & The Systems Anatomy of Inference FinOps]]> https://glyiq.com/blog/where-the-tokens-actually-go https://glyiq.com/blog/where-the-tokens-actually-go Engineering Blog Rehan <![CDATA[[Blog] Context Stuffing vs. RAG: Costs, Retrieval, and Evaluation]]> https://glyiq.com/blog/memory-bus-trap https://glyiq.com/blog/memory-bus-trap Engineering Blog Irfan <![CDATA[[Blog] Prompt Caching Architecture: How Prefix Reuse Can Reduce LLM API Input Costs]]> https://glyiq.com/blog/micro-billing-forward-pass https://glyiq.com/blog/micro-billing-forward-pass Engineering Blog Rehan <![CDATA[[Blog] Why Multi-Agent Systems Fail in Production: Infinite Loops, Token Explosions, and The Evaluator-Optimizer Alternative]]> https://glyiq.com/blog/infinite-handshake-agents https://glyiq.com/blog/infinite-handshake-agents Engineering Blog Irfan <![CDATA[[Blog] Self-Hosting an 8B Model vs. Hosted LLM APIs: A Break-Even Framework]]> https://glyiq.com/blog/sovereign-compute-slm https://glyiq.com/blog/sovereign-compute-slm Engineering Blog Rehan <![CDATA[[Blog] Denial of Wallet in LLM Applications: Defend Against Unbounded Consumption (OWASP LLM10:2025)]]> https://glyiq.com/blog/denial-of-wallet https://glyiq.com/blog/denial-of-wallet Engineering Blog Irfan <![CDATA[[Blog] Structured Outputs & Constrained Decoding: How to Eliminate LLM JSON Parsing Retries and Output Bloat]]> https://glyiq.com/blog/deterministic-boundary https://glyiq.com/blog/deterministic-boundary Engineering Blog Irfan <![CDATA[[Blog] AI Agent Security & Tool Egress: Preventing Credential Leaks and Policy Bypasses in Shell and MCP Environments]]> https://glyiq.com/blog/ambient-cloud-identity https://glyiq.com/blog/ambient-cloud-identity Engineering Blog Irfan <![CDATA[[Blog] LLM Observability at the Proxy Layer: Catching Runaway Token Spikes Before Provider Dashboard Lag]]> https://glyiq.com/blog/telemetry-at-the-proxy https://glyiq.com/blog/telemetry-at-the-proxy Engineering Blog Rehan