Introduction: Modern LLMs understand more than text. GPT-4V, Claude 3, and Gemini can process images alongside text, enabling applications that reason across modalities. Building multi-modal applications requires handling image encoding, managing mixed-content prompts, and designing interactions that leverage visual understanding. This guide covers practical patterns for integrating vision capabilities: encoding images for API calls, building […]
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LLM Request Batching: Maximizing Throughput with Parallel Processing
Introduction: Processing LLM requests one at a time is inefficient. When you have multiple independent requests, sequential processing wastes time waiting for each response before starting the next. Batching groups requests together for parallel processing, dramatically improving throughput. But batching LLM requests isn’t straightforward—you need to handle rate limits, manage concurrent connections, deal with partial […]
Read more →LLM Error Handling: Building Resilient AI Applications
Introduction: LLM APIs fail. Rate limits get hit, servers time out, responses get truncated, and models occasionally return garbage. Production applications need robust error handling that gracefully recovers from failures without losing user context or corrupting state. This guide covers practical error handling strategies: detecting and classifying different error types, implementing retry logic with exponential […]
Read more →Streaming Response Patterns: Building Responsive LLM Applications
Introduction: Waiting for complete LLM responses creates poor user experiences. Users stare at loading spinners while models generate hundreds of tokens. Streaming delivers tokens as they’re generated, showing users immediate progress and reducing perceived latency dramatically. But streaming introduces complexity: you need to handle partial responses, buffer tokens for processing, manage connection failures mid-stream, and […]
Read more →LLM Monitoring and Observability: Metrics, Traces, and Alerts
Introduction: LLM applications are notoriously difficult to debug. Unlike traditional software where errors are obvious, LLM issues manifest as subtle quality degradation, unexpected costs, or slow responses. Proper observability is essential for production LLM systems. This guide covers monitoring strategies: tracking latency, tokens, and costs; implementing distributed tracing for complex chains; structured logging for debugging; […]
Read more →LLM Security Best Practices: Protecting AI Applications from Attacks
Introduction: LLM applications face unique security challenges. Prompt injection attacks can hijack model behavior, sensitive data can leak through responses, and malicious outputs can harm users. Traditional security measures don’t fully address these risks—you need LLM-specific defenses. This guide covers practical security strategies: validating and sanitizing inputs, detecting prompt injection attempts, filtering sensitive information from […]
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