MirahLabs Engineering Blog
Technical insights, architectural deep-dives, and system designs authored by our product engineers and AI research leads.
Startup Metrics That Matter: LTV, CAC, Churn, and Burn Rate Explained
Don't measure progress using vanity metrics. Master the financial formulas that drive venture funding and business longevity: LTV, CAC ratio, cohort churn, and runway.
Designing RESTful APIs: Best Practices for Consistency and Usability
A poorly designed API is a liability—developers avoid it, bugs multiply, and breaking changes cause outages. This guide covers REST naming conventions, versioning, error formats, and documentation with OpenAPI.
Vector Search at Scale: Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) Indexes
Similarity searches on millions of high-dimensional vectors are computationally expensive. Learn how HNSW graph indexes make nearest-neighbor search sub-millisecond.
Designing for Failure: Chaos Engineering with Chaos Monkey
Netflix's Chaos Monkey intentionally kills production systems to build teams and infrastructure that are genuinely resilient. Learn how to implement chaos engineering principles in your own stack.
AWS IAM Best Practices: The Principle of Least Privilege in Action
Weak IAM policies are the most common gateway for AWS environment breaches. Implement role-based access control, condition keys, and automated access reviews.
The API-First Design Workflow: Designing APIs with OpenAPI and Swagger
Writing code before defining API specifications leads to integration delays. Discover the API-First design workflow using OpenAPI schemas and automated mock servers.