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World Congress 2026 North America • Sep 24, 2026 • Session details

Designing High-Performance AI APIs: Lessons from Serving Millions of Real-Time Requests

Wayne Liu

Wayne Liu warns that standard REST APIs fail under heavy AI inference. Discover how asynchronous, task-based orchestration seamlessly powers 200 million daily requests for retail giants.

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