# Dinesh Mannam > Personal site of Dinesh Mannam — an engineer building cloud reliability, observability, and API and AI agentic gateway infrastructure at scale, with essays on technology, money, and living deliberately. ## About - [About](https://dineshmannam.com/about/): Dinesh Mannam builds cloud reliability, observability, and API and AI agentic gateway infrastructure, and writes about technology, money, and deliberate living. - [Credentials](https://dineshmannam.com/credentials/): Verified cloud, SRE/observability, and agentic-AI credentials — every badge links to Credly for verification. ## Engineering - [I Added an llms.txt. Nothing Reads It.](https://dineshmannam.com/engineering/llms-txt/): This site now generates an llms.txt on every build, and the current evidence says no AI system actually reads it. - [Migrating from Ghost to Hugo on Vercel](https://dineshmannam.com/engineering/how-to-use-hugo-with-vercel/): A technical walkthrough of migrating a Ghost blog to Hugo, deploying on Vercel, preserving SEO with 301 redirects, and cutting over DNS through Cloudflare. - [14 Best Productivity Apps for Developers and Power Users (2026 Edition)](https://dineshmannam.com/engineering/best-productivity-apps-developers/): Is it overwhelming to figure out which app is the best fit for your workflow? - [Memory Systems Evolved: The Hidden Complexity of Model Context Protocol](https://dineshmannam.com/engineering/model-context-protocol-explained/): Introduction When most people think about how AI systems manage context, they often reduce it to simply “remembering previous messages.” This simplistic view… - [Caching](https://dineshmannam.com/engineering/caching/): If we want to go by the definition, here it goes: “In computing, a cache is a hardware or software component that stores data so that future requests for that… ## Ventures - [CricketVision](https://dineshmannam.com/ventures/cricketvision/): A venture one-pager for CricketVision: stand inside a cricket match at life scale on Apple Vision Pro. ## Optional Personal writing: essays, notes, and short impressions. Skip this section when context is short. - [Thoughts: You do not own the ground you stand on](https://dineshmannam.com/thoughts/money/you-do-not-own-the-ground/): There is one thing people treat as truly theirs. - [Thoughts: The government takes a cut every time money moves](https://dineshmannam.com/thoughts/money/government-takes-a-cut/): Take out your last receipt and read the line above the total. - [Thoughts: Why the Fine Print on Being Human Was Never Shown to You](https://dineshmannam.com/thoughts/why-the-fine-print-on-being-human-was-never-shown-to-you/): Why human relationships run on contracts nobody wrote down, never compared, and both parties enforce anyway. - [Thoughts: Digital Currency and the Government Eye in Your Wallet](https://dineshmannam.com/thoughts/money/govt-eye-in-your-wallet/): India is mid-transition. - [Thoughts: No Interest in Land](https://dineshmannam.com/thoughts/no-interest-in-land/): Every time I say I have no interest in buying land, the room goes quiet in a specific way. - [Thoughts: No Person Is Perfect](https://dineshmannam.com/thoughts/no-person-is-perfect/): No person is perfect, if you are searching for one, you are going to be very dissappointed at some point first you have to reflect on your quest, why is there… - [Thoughts: How to start from zero](https://dineshmannam.com/thoughts/how-to-start-from-zero/): This is my attempt to teach my futureself on how to get back on your feet when nothing feels going in your way, once you start your downfall, you hit rockbottom… - [Thoughts: Dream home](https://dineshmannam.com/thoughts/dream-home/): since I’m writing this in 2026, my taste has evolved this much :D This is my understanding of a dream home that I’d like to build one day, not sure when, but… - [Thoughts: focus on preparedness, not prediction](https://dineshmannam.com/thoughts/focus-on-preparedness-not-prediction/): I believe in “all the information in the world is already existed”, there is no new information anymore, all we are doing is digging up the old info and… - [Thoughts: What it actually costs to eat well](https://dineshmannam.com/thoughts/what-it-actually-costs/): What it actually costs to eat well Most people guess wrong about this. - [Thoughts: The bank created your loan from nothing and collected real money as interest](https://dineshmannam.com/thoughts/money/the-bank-created-your-loan-from-nothing/): There are moments when you sit back and think about something long enough that it stops making sense — and then, if you keep going, it starts making a different… - [Thoughts: The most powerful company in AI might be your electricity provider](https://dineshmannam.com/thoughts/ai-datacenter-economics-electricity/): If you’re using an AI model from a company that owns everything — power generation, datacenter, the chips, the model itself — do you think you’re paying less… - [Thoughts: The scoreboard nobody designed, but everyone plays](https://dineshmannam.com/thoughts/money/the-scoreboard-nobody-designed/): Nobody designed this game. - [Thoughts: You do not own money, you hold a promise](https://dineshmannam.com/thoughts/money/how-fiat-money-works-rupee/): Every headline about trillion-dollar deals, Federal Reserve rate decisions, or RBI interventions feels abstract. - [Thoughts: Is everything about serving better ads?](https://dineshmannam.com/thoughts/digital-advertising-surveillance/): The idea is to know as much as possible about the user to serve ads with a confirmed rate of return - hyper personalization Its always the scenario - solve the… - [Thoughts: Between Hope and Suspense: What Reading "AI 2041" and "The Hit" Taught Me About Our Future](https://dineshmannam.com/thoughts/ai-2041-book-review/): There are moments when your intellectual diet, through pure coincidence, creates a profound conversation in your own mind. - [Thoughts: The Wholeness Framework: Three Jobs That Define Our Journey](https://dineshmannam.com/thoughts/wholeness-framework-work-life/): Introduction We often hear about work-life balance as if life can be neatly divided into two separate spheres. - [Thoughts: The Paradox of Progress: Trading Village Contentment for Urban Opportunity](https://dineshmannam.com/thoughts/village-to-city-opportunity-cost/): There’s a peculiar paradox in the journey from a small village to a bustling American city. - [Thoughts: "I Told You So" Doesn't Help: Why Questions Beat Unsolicited Advice](https://dineshmannam.com/thoughts/unsolicited-advice-questions/): Introduction We’ve all been there, offering carefully prepared advice or knowledge, only to be met with glazed eyes and minimal retention. - [Thoughts: Two Years of Support: How Parental Backing After Education Creates Purpose-Driven Adults](https://dineshmannam.com/thoughts/parental-support-after-education/): Introduction Every year, millions of young adults face the same daunting question after completing their education or deciding to end their formal studies:… - [Notes: Law of Moderation](https://dineshmannam.com/notes/law-of-moderation/): There is a saying, I’ll look where I found this Too much of anything is dangerous this helped me grounding myself in this information overload world and this… - [Notes: Importance of human life](https://dineshmannam.com/notes/human-life-is-a-hit-or-miss/): in a grand scheme of things, the biggest and smallest and most delicate is a human life - [Food: Dunkin'](https://dineshmannam.com/food/dunkin/): Two versions depending on the weather. - [Food: Chipotle](https://dineshmannam.com/food/chipotle/): If you’re picking up from Chipotle, this is exactly what to order. - [Impressions: Why there are no negative takes here](https://dineshmannam.com/impressions/about/): I choose not to write about what didn't work for me.