Beyond the API Key: Architecting a Multi-Provider AI Gateway with RBAC, Cost Routing, and Fallback Chains — Lessons from 40k+ Star OSS Tools
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Originally published on tamiz.pro . A single OPENAI_API_KEY in your .env file is the AI equivalent of a single point of failure. One provider outage, one rate-limit change, one 20% price hike, and your production inference pipeline grinds to a halt. The teams shipping AI features at scale have conv…
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- 2026-09-11 06:06 · DEV Community — AI
Beyond the API Key: Architecting a Multi-Provider AI Gateway with RBAC, Cost Routing, and Fallback Chains — Lessons from 40k+ Star OSS Tools