OpenAI in Production: A Java Backend Engineer's Field Notes
By Shubham Bhati — Backend Engineer at AlignBits LLC
Most "OpenAI tutorials" stop at a hello-world chat call. This isn't that. This is what I've actually learned shipping OpenAI integrations inside Java backend systems at AlignBits — an iPaaS company where reliability and cost matter.
If you're a Java backend engineer about to wire OpenAI into a Spring Boot service, here's what you actually need to know.
1. The OpenAI Java SDK situation
