AI API engineering guides

Build a more reliable AI API gateway.

Original, production-focused guidance on provider migration, streaming, routing, observability, usage accounting, and cost control.

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OpenAI-Compatible API Gateway: A Migration Checklist for Developers

A production-focused checklist for moving an application to an OpenAI-compatible API gateway without breaking streaming, tools, errors, usage, or billing.

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Streaming AI Responses Across Providers Without Rewriting Your Client

A practical engineering guide to SSE framing, proxy buffering, timeouts, cancellation, retries, observability, and usage settlement for streaming AI APIs.

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API Cost Controls: Keys, Budgets, Rate Limits, and Reconciliation

A practical framework for controlling AI API spend with scoped keys, budgets, rate limits, reservations, price versions, alerts, and usage reconciliation.

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