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Understand how applications send instructions to models and handle production API behavior.
API
An API is an interface that lets one software system communicate with another.
Think of it like
Think of API like a restaurant or service desk: the request must reach the right endpoint in the right format and the response must be handled safely.
Real life
Web applications use concepts such as API to communicate with external services.
SRE lens
Your incident portal can call an LLM API rather than hosting the model itself.
Remember thisAn API is an interface that lets one software system communicate with another.