The AI API Will Fail on You — Here's How I Structure FastAPI to Handle It
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A few weeks ago I was demoing a small FastAPI service that called an LLM to summarize text. Worked great in every test I ran. Then, live, the provider API took almost 9 seconds to respond and my endpoint just... hung. No error, no timeout, just silence while I sat there making small talk to fill th…
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- 2026-08-28 17:25 · DEV Community — AI
The AI API Will Fail on You — Here's How I Structure FastAPI to Handle It