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The OpenAI-compatible streaming API

Lesson 7 of 10

Serving /v1/chat/completions with server-sent events so any OpenAI client works unchanged.

What you'll learn

  • Understand why matching the OpenAI wire format matters
  • Read the server-sent events (SSE) format used for token streaming
  • Parse an SSE stream into tokens, including the terminating sentinel
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