Gabriel Caiana is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Petlove, working on applied AI (agents, LangGraph, evals) on top of a strong frontend foundation in Vue, Nuxt, and TypeScript.https://gabrielcaiana.com/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/amazon-bedrock-in-practice-ai-as-part-of-the-architecture-not-as-an-external-dependency/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/amazon-bedrock-in-practice-ai-as-part-of-the-architecture-not-as-an-external-dependency/How I moved from OpenAI to Amazon Bedrock: IAM auth, consolidated billing, Haiku vs Sonnet by task, and real trade-offs of running AI on AWS.Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/persistent-storage-in-nuxt-with-unstorage/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/persistent-storage-in-nuxt-with-unstorage/Learn how to use Unstorage on Nuxt to persist server-side data with Redis and Cloudflare KV. Complete guide with practical storage examples in Nuxt 3.Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/modular-architecture-with-nuxt-layers-in-vue-projects/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/modular-architecture-with-nuxt-layers-in-vue-projects/Discover how Nuxt Layers organizes Vue.js projects with modular architecture. Create scalable and maintainable front-end applications with backend concepts.Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/http-caching-and-cdn-with-cloudflare-complete-guide/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/http-caching-and-cdn-with-cloudflare-complete-guide/Learn how to implement HTTP caching with the Cloudflare CDN to improve web application performance, reduce server costs and make your pages load faster.Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/how-to-store-data-in-the-browser-without-making-a-mess/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/how-to-store-data-in-the-browser-without-making-a-mess/Understand when to use localStorage, sessionStorage and IndexedDB. Practical guide with e-commerce examples to store data in the browser in an organized way.Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/how-core-web-vitals-works/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/how-core-web-vitals-works/Understand Google's Core Web Vitals: LCP, FID and CLS. Learn how these metrics affect rankings and how to optimize the user experience on the website.Sat, 24 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/how-to-preserve-component-state-between-routes-with-keepalive-in-nuxt-3/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/how-to-preserve-component-state-between-routes-with-keepalive-in-nuxt-3/Learn how to use KeepAlive in Nuxt 3 to preserve the state of components between route changes and ensure a more fluid and performant experience.Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/components-for-debug-and-rendering-with-devonly-and-clientonly-in-nuxt-3/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/components-for-debug-and-rendering-with-devonly-and-clientonly-in-nuxt-3/Learn how to use DevOnly and ClientOnly in Nuxt 3 for conditional rendering, safe debugging in development, and more efficient and optimized production builds.Sat, 31 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/composable-abstraction-layer-the-missing-pattern-between-pinia-and-its-vue-components/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/composable-abstraction-layer-the-missing-pattern-between-pinia-and-its-vue-components/Learn how the Composable Abstraction Layer eliminates the coupling between Pinia and Vue 3, centralizing logic, side-effects and ensuring testability per layer.Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/building-a-robust-architecture/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/building-a-robust-architecture/Explore the pillars of a robust software architecture: configurability, extensibility, and ease of installation for scalable, flexible systems.Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/decision-models-in-practice-when-picking-the-llm-per-message-pays-off-and-when-the-mid-tier-model-is-enough/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/decision-models-in-practice-when-picking-the-llm-per-message-pays-off-and-when-the-mid-tier-model-is-enough/I had Microsoft-Decision-1 pick the subagent and LLM in a post-sales chatbot: harness, calibration, cost guard, and what 1,000 synthetic conversations showed.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/understanding-nielsens-10-heuristics/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/understanding-nielsens-10-heuristics/Discover Nielsen's 10 Heuristics for interface design. Jakob Nielsen's principles created in 1994 that guide usability and good UX practices.Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/exploring-functional-programming-in-javascript/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/exploring-functional-programming-in-javascript/Learn the fundamentals of Functional Programming in JavaScript: first-class functions, immutability, composition and the map, filter and reduce methods.Sat, 30 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/from-base-model-to-chatgpt-sft-tools-and-reinforcement-learning/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/from-base-model-to-chatgpt-sft-tools-and-reinforcement-learning/How an LLM base model becomes ChatGPT: supervised fine-tuning, tool use, hallucination reduction and reinforcement learning explained clearly and in depth.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/from-common-crawl-to-the-base-model-how-an-llm-learns-language/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/from-common-crawl-to-the-base-model-how-an-llm-learns-language/How an LLM goes from raw web data to the base model: the Transformer, Common Crawl, FineWeb, tokenization and pre-training explained clearly, no hype.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/how-we-reorganized-an-e-commerce-checkout-without-stopping-sales/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/how-we-reorganized-an-e-commerce-checkout-without-stopping-sales/How we reorganized a major e-commerce checkout in production with Nuxt Layers, the CAL pattern, and automated linting rules — without stopping a single sale.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/integration-between-github-and-discord-for-pull-request-notifications/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/integration-between-github-and-discord-for-pull-request-notifications/Configure GitHub and Discord for automatic, real-time Pull Request notifications. Complete guide with step-by-step GitHub Actions for your team.Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/javascript-in-2025-complete-guide-to-the-most-popular-methods-and-operators/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/javascript-in-2025-complete-guide-to-the-most-popular-methods-and-operators/Complete guide to the most searched JavaScript methods in 2025: forEach, map, filter, reduce, split, push, splice and the ternary operator, with examples.Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/langgraph-only-for-the-handoff-a-support-chatbot-where-a-decision-model-picks-who-answers/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/langgraph-only-for-the-handoff-a-support-chatbot-where-a-decision-model-picks-who-answers/A post-sales chatbot built with LangChain and LangGraph where a decision model picks the subagent per message: architecture, code, fallback, A/B and failures.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/metrics-to-measure-software-performance/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/metrics-to-measure-software-performance/Understand the main software performance metrics: latency, throughput and scalability. How to monitor and optimize systems for high availability.Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/nestjs-monorepo-with-pnpm-workspaces-how-i-structured-the-dev-experience-for-multiple-services/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/nestjs-monorepo-with-pnpm-workspaces-how-i-structured-the-dev-experience-for-multiple-services/How I structured a NestJS monorepo with pnpm workspaces for multiple services: shared packages, hot reload in dev and optimized build in production.Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/nuxt-4-new-directory-structure-and-migration-guide/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/nuxt-4-new-directory-structure-and-migration-guide/Discover the new Nuxt 4 directory structure with the app/ directory and learn how to migrate your Nuxt 3 projects safely and without breaking anything.Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/nuxt-4-typescript-and-type-safety-complete-guide/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/nuxt-4-typescript-and-type-safety-complete-guide/Explore TypeScript in Nuxt 4: auto-generated types, native type safety, and intelligent inference for safer, more productive Vue.js development.Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/how-to-add-webpack-package-analysis-to-your-nuxt-project/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/how-to-add-webpack-package-analysis-to-your-nuxt-project/Learn how to configure webpack bundle analysis in Nuxt with an interactive treemap to visualize and optimize your application's bundle size.Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/what-i-have-learned-from-building-a-product-with-spec-driven-development/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/what-i-have-learned-from-building-a-product-with-spec-driven-development/What I learned building a product with Spec-Driven Development: How structured specs eliminate technical debt using AI as a development peer.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/what-are-micro-frontends/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/what-are-micro-frontends/What Micro Frontends are: the architectural pattern that brings microservices to the frontend for independent teams, faster deployments and scalability.Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/optimizing-indexing-with-astro/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/optimizing-indexing-with-astro/Discover how Astro improves site indexing with static rendering, zero JavaScript and SEO techniques to maximize visibility in search engines.Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/react-is-a-view-library-not-an-architecture/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/react-is-a-view-library-not-an-architecture/Your component started innocent, but today it does everything. Learn why React is a View library, not an architecture, and how to separate domain from UI.Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/reactivity-solidjs-vs-react-vs-vue/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/reactivity-solidjs-vs-react-vs-vue/Compare the reactivity systems of React, Vue and SolidJS: re-rendering, proxies and signals. Understand the differences and the impact on front-end performance.Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caianahttps://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/vertical-slices-in-the-frontend-when-the-folder-tells-you-what-the-product-does/https://gabrielcaiana.com/blog/vertical-slices-in-the-frontend-when-the-folder-tells-you-what-the-product-does/How to structure a React SPA in vertical slices by domain: public API per slice, data from route loaders, and an architecture test that blocks shortcuts in CI.Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTGabriel Caiana