OpenAI API Tutorial: From First Request to Production
Everything between your first API call and a service you can put in front of users: key handling, streaming, structured outputs, tool calling, retries and token accounting.
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Everything between your first API call and a service you can put in front of users: key handling, streaming, structured outputs, tool calling, retries and token accounting.
A vector database is an approximate nearest neighbor index with a storage engine attached. Understanding the index type and the filtering strategy explains almost every performance difference between them.
RAG puts the right documents in the model's context at query time. The generation half is mostly solved; the retrieval half is where nearly every production system breaks.
Prompt engineering is specification writing, not incantation. This guide covers the structure that works, the techniques that are overrated, and how to test prompts like code.
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