Client code: timeouts, retries, streaming and SDK design
What a well-behaved LLM client does: layered timeouts, retries with jitter and budgets, idempotency, streaming parse and cancellation, handling partial output, circuit breakers, hedging, and designing a small SDK. Includes tested Python.
14 min·Verified 2026-11Pro+50 XP
Clients decide whether a struggling inference service recovers or collapses. A client with no timeouts hangs threads; one with naive retries multiplies load during an outage. This lesson is the checklist and a small, tested implementation.
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