SDK
Also called: software development kit
An official library that wraps a provider's API in your programming language.
An SDK saves you from hand-rolling HTTP calls, retries, and streaming. It handles auth, typing, and error handling in idiomatic code. Using one is almost always faster and safer than talking to the raw endpoint.
In practice: Three lines of Python instead of thirty lines of request plumbing.
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