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Context & Reliability~17 min
Reliability Patterns: RAG, Compaction, Citations, Batches, and Backoff
Pick the right architectural pattern for long-running, large-corpus, and high-volume workloads, plus the retry and streaming patterns that keep apps reliable.
What you will be able to do
- ✓Choose RAG when the corpus dwarfs the context window, and compaction or external memory for long-running agents
- ✓Describe what Citations and the Message Batches API each provide and when to reach for them
- ✓Apply latency patterns (streaming for perceived speed) and reliability patterns (429 backoff, JSON validate-and-retry)
- ✓Match each workload to the correct context or reliability mechanism without overlap
3 concepts·7 hands-on exercises·3-question check