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5 Real Issues With LiteLLM That Are Pushing Teams Away in 2026
Dev.to · Debby McKinney 2w ago
5 Real Issues With LiteLLM That Are Pushing Teams Away in 2026
The LiteLLM supply chain attack on March 24, 2026 was the trigger for this post, but not the only...
5 Ways to Track and Cut Your LLM API Costs Without Switching Models
Dev.to · Debby McKinney 1mo ago
5 Ways to Track and Cut Your LLM API Costs Without Switching Models
TL;DR: Most teams overspend on LLM APIs because they have zero visibility into what is actually...
How to Cut LLM API Costs by 60% with Semantic Caching
Dev.to · Debby McKinney 1mo ago
How to Cut LLM API Costs by 60% with Semantic Caching
TL;DR: Most LLM caching is exact-match — same input string, same output. But users rarely phrase the...
Top 5 MCP Gateways for Building Production AI Agents
Dev.to · Debby McKinney 2mo ago
Top 5 MCP Gateways for Building Production AI Agents
You're building an AI agent that needs to read files, search the web, and query your database. Model...
Your LiteLLM Failover Might Be Adding 30+ Seconds of Latency (Here's Why)
Dev.to · Debby McKinney 2mo ago
Your LiteLLM Failover Might Be Adding 30+ Seconds of Latency (Here's Why)
If you're using LiteLLM for failover, you probably expect instant provider switching when OpenAI goes...
Your LLM Provider Just Went Down. Here's How to Stay Online.
Dev.to · Debby McKinney 2mo ago
Your LLM Provider Just Went Down. Here's How to Stay Online.
If you're running LLM applications in production, provider failures will happen. Network timeouts,...
How to Build Production AI Agents with an MCP Gateway
Dev.to · Debby McKinney 2mo ago
How to Build Production AI Agents with an MCP Gateway
MCP servers are everywhere now; filesystem tools, web search, databases, Slack integrations. But...
You're Probably Going to Hit These LiteLLM Issues in Production
Dev.to · Debby McKinney 2mo ago
You're Probably Going to Hit These LiteLLM Issues in Production
If you're using LiteLLM and planning to scale, there are specific production issues you should know...
OpenAI Responses API in an LLM Gateway: What Changed and Why It Matters
Dev.to · Debby McKinney 2mo ago
OpenAI Responses API in an LLM Gateway: What Changed and Why It Matters
OpenAI's Responses API represents a fundamental redesign of how applications interact with language...
MCP: The Open Standard Making AI Agents Actually Useful
Dev.to · Debby McKinney 2mo ago
MCP: The Open Standard Making AI Agents Actually Useful
AI agents that can only chat aren't revolutionary. The breakthrough comes when they can execute...
How to Cut Your AI Costs in Half While Doubling Performance
Dev.to · Debby McKinney 3mo ago
How to Cut Your AI Costs in Half While Doubling Performance
Traditional caching breaks the moment someone rephrases a question. A user asks "What are your...
Why Your AI's Context Window Problem Just Got Solved (And What It Means For Your Bottom Line)
Dev.to · Debby McKinney 3mo ago
Why Your AI's Context Window Problem Just Got Solved (And What It Means For Your Bottom Line)
If you're building AI products, you've hit this wall: your AI works brilliantly on short...
This Open-Source LLM Gateway is 54x Faster Than LiteLLM (Here's Why)
Dev.to · Debby McKinney 3mo ago
This Open-Source LLM Gateway is 54x Faster Than LiteLLM (Here's Why)
Introducing Bifrost: The Fastest Open-Source LLM Gateway Built for Production Scale ...
They just shipped Code Mode for MCP in Bifrost and it's kind of wild
Dev.to · Debby McKinney 3mo ago
They just shipped Code Mode for MCP in Bifrost and it's kind of wild
Team Bifrost just released something I'm genuinely excited about - Code Mode for MCP. ...
MCP Code Mode: How We Can Cut Token Costs By Writing Less Prompts and More TypeScript
Dev.to · Debby McKinney 3mo ago
MCP Code Mode: How We Can Cut Token Costs By Writing Less Prompts and More TypeScript
Every week, more MCP servers pop up. More tools. More "connect everything to your LLM" demos. Then...
Why Static Load Balancing Fails for LLM Infrastructure (And What Works Instead)
Dev.to · Debby McKinney 3mo ago
Why Static Load Balancing Fails for LLM Infrastructure (And What Works Instead)
When Team Maxim started building Bifrost, they assumed load balancing for LLM requests would work...
Why Production Teams Are Migrating Away From LiteLLM (And How Bifrost Is The Perfect Alternative)
Dev.to · Debby McKinney 3mo ago
Why Production Teams Are Migrating Away From LiteLLM (And How Bifrost Is The Perfect Alternative)
A YC founder's recent LinkedIn post calling to "avoid LiteLLM as much as possible" sparked a...
Top 5 Tools for Ensuring AI Governance in Your AI Application
Dev.to · Debby McKinney 3mo ago
Top 5 Tools for Ensuring AI Governance in Your AI Application
TL;DR As organizations accelerate their AI adoption, governance has become...
TrueFoundry vs Bifrost: Why We Chose Specialization Over an All-in-One MLOps Platform
Dev.to · Debby McKinney 3mo ago
TrueFoundry vs Bifrost: Why We Chose Specialization Over an All-in-One MLOps Platform
The Platform Tax You've seen this pattern before: You need: A reliable way to route...
Best LiteLLM Alternative in 2025: Why Teams Are Switching to Bifrost
Dev.to · Debby McKinney 3mo ago
Best LiteLLM Alternative in 2025: Why Teams Are Switching to Bifrost
TL;DR: As enterprise LLM spending hits $8.4 billion in 2025, teams need gateways that won't become...