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Reserve Before Dispatch: Budgets That Fire Before Inference
Why post-hoc spend alerts fail, and how pre-dispatch reservation changes the budget conversation
Oct 16, 20263 min read2
Zero-Downtime LLM Gateway Migration: The Parallel-Run Cutover Pattern
How to switch LLM gateways without downtime — run both in parallel, verify under real traffic, then cut over.
Oct 8, 20263 min read1
Per-Team Budgets: The Gateway Feature That Kills the Spreadsheet
Per-Team Budgets: The Gateway Feature That Kills the Spreadsheet Every team running shared LLM infrastructure eventually builds the same spreadsheet: per-team spend, per-key usage, who's about to blow
Oct 8, 20263 min read
Migrating from Helicone's Proxy to an Inline LLM Gateway: What Ports, What Maps Differently, What Has No Equivalent
Migrating from Helicone's Proxy to an Inline LLM Gateway: What Ports, What Maps Differently, What Has No Equivalent Migration guides usually sell you the destination. This one is about the diff — what
Oct 7, 20264 min read4
Failure Semantics: What 402 vs 429 Tells You About Your LLM Gateway
Most LLM gateways return one undifferentiated error when money is involved. Your retry logic sees "something about budget" and has to guess: is the organization out of money, or is one key misbehaving
Oct 1, 20263 min read
Routing Strategies in LLM Gateways: How nRouter's Smart Router Compares to OpenRouter's Provider Object
Ask a room of engineers what an LLM gateway is for and most will say "one API key for every model." That's the brochure answer. The real product is what happens between your request and the model: whi
Sep 29, 20264 min read2