9 min
Does the Flower Shop Need an AI Gateway?
What an AI gateway does, whether the flower shop agents need one, how LiteLLM, Portkey, Cloudflare and Kong compare, and how I put gateways in for clients. For the people buying and the people building.
Notes
Short write-ups from real engagements — the bug, what it cost, and how to avoid it. No listicles.
What an AI gateway does, whether the flower shop agents need one, how LiteLLM, Portkey, Cloudflare and Kong compare, and how I put gateways in for clients. For the people buying and the people building.
I moved the flower shop example's tools onto an MCP server with FastMCP. The agents barely changed. The real decision was where the list of safe tools should live.
How I build AI worker-agent systems for businesses of any size: narrow workers, a coordinator, and an approval gate enforced in code, with a working flower shop example.
Slow queries, a Django upgrade you keep postponing, an AI feature that needs to survive production. Tell me about it.