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Hardening OpenAI API calls for backend reliability

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The OpenAI API community forum highlights recurring production issues: rate limiting, intermittent 5xx/timeouts, and brittle streaming consumers. Backend teams can improve reliability by standardizing retries with jitter, enforcing concurrency limits, and adding observability around tokens, latency, and errors.

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Hardening OpenAI API calls for backend reliability

The OpenAI API community forum highlights recurring production issues: rate limiting, intermittent 5xx/timeouts, and brittle streaming consumers. Backend teams can improve reliability by standardizing retries with jitter, enforcing concurrency limits, and adding observability around tokens, latency, and errors.

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