Deployment & Scaling · Foundation
Production LLM API Calls: SDKs, Streaming & Retries
Turn a demo-quality API call into a production client: official SDKs, streaming, timeouts, backoff, and idempotency.
- 45 min lesson
- intermediate level
- Engineering Track
- Narrated presentation
What you’ll learn
- Provider SDKs and client abstraction layers
- Streaming (SSE) and time-to-first-token
- Exponential backoff with jitter
- Retryable vs. non-retryable errors
- Idempotency keys and deduplication
- Timeouts, deadlines, and partial responses
Inside this lesson
A narrated, slide-by-slide presentation with 1 prediction exercise, 1 knowledge check, 5 videos. You answer as you go, and the platform checks your work.