<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Nivant Labs Blog</title><description>A technical blog about AI engineering, system design, DevOps, and open source — written by the engineers building Nivant Labs.</description><link>https://nivantlabs.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Building a Multi-Agent RAG Pipeline: Lessons from Production</title><link>https://nivantlabs.com/blog/multi-agent-rag-pipeline/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nivantlabs.com/blog/multi-agent-rag-pipeline/</guid><description>How we built a production RAG system that handles 10K+ queries daily — the architecture, the failures, and the hard-won optimizations that cut latency by 60%.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>rag</category><category>llm</category><category>agents</category><category>ai-engineering</category><category>vector-db</category></item><item><title>How We Cut Our CI Pipeline from 45 Minutes to 8 Minutes</title><link>https://nivantlabs.com/blog/ci-pipeline-optimization/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nivantlabs.com/blog/ci-pipeline-optimization/</guid><description>Our CI pipeline was the bottleneck every developer complained about. Here&apos;s how we broke it down, parallelized it, and what we learned about caching strategies along the way.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ci-cd</category><category>devops</category><category>performance</category><category>github-actions</category><category>caching</category></item><item><title>Event-Driven Microservices: When to Break the Monolith (and When Not To)</title><link>https://nivantlabs.com/blog/event-driven-microservices/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nivantlabs.com/blog/event-driven-microservices/</guid><description>We migrated from a modular monolith to event-driven microservices. Here&apos;s the honest story — what went well, what went wrong, and the 3 questions you should ask before starting your own migration.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>microservices</category><category>system-design</category><category>event-driven</category><category>architecture</category><category>kafka</category></item></channel></rss>