Imagine you've just watched your first tutorial on authentication. You spin up a login flow, add some JWTs, and call it done. Then you push to production and realize those tutorials skipped the hard parts—token revocation, session management, replay ...

First request to your AI model: timeout. Second request: instant success. If you've integrated AI APIs into serverless applications, you've probably hit this wall. Here's what's happening, why it matters for user experience, and how I solved it with...