The Problem With Talking Directly to LLMs
Most teams start by wiring their app straight to the OpenAI API. It works — until you need to add auth, rate limiting, observability, or swap out the model provider. Now you're rewriting application code instead of config.
An AI Gateway solves this. One entry point, one place to govern traffic, providers become swappable. Kong Gateway is a mature choice here — it's been doing this for APIs for years, and the AI Proxy plugin extends that to LLMs.
This post walks through the key ideas. For the full step-by-step guide, head over to the tutorial on Hashnode.
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