21You stream tokens to clients over HTTP. What can go wrong, and how does the server handle each case?▼mediumNewOpenAIBaseten4 replies◆ premiumA stream is a long-lived connection to a GPU slot. Slow readers, dropped connections, half-finished answers and duplicate retries each waste that slot in a different way, and each has a specific defense.Open full answer →
17Design the playground behind an LLM API: streaming, sessions, quotas and abuse, for a million free-tier users.▼mediumNewOpenAI4 replies○ sign inThe playground is the API's most public client and its most abused one: free, barely identified, streaming. The transport and its cost per connection, session state that survives a refresh with no GPU holding anything, quotas per user and per fleet, and the abuse controls that stop the free tier becoming a free API.Open full answer →
