Gemini API Streaming Works Locally but Buffers in Production — Fixing Cloud Run, Vercel, and Cloudflare
Streaming responses flow token-by-token in local dev, then arrive as one big blob in production. A walkthrough of the five most common causes — Cloud Run timeouts, Vercel runtime mismatch, Cloudflare Workers proxying, server-side text() pitfalls, and client-side decoding — with the fixes I use across Dolice Labs.
Why a Fixed seed in the Gemini API Still Drifts, and How I Handle It
Even when you pin generationConfig.seed in the Gemini API, the same prompt can return slightly different outputs. Here is what causes the drift and the layered approach I rely on as an indie developer running a wallpaper-classification pipeline.
Why Your Apps Script Stops Mid-Batch When Calling the Gemini API — UrlFetchApp Timeouts and the 6-Minute Execution Limit
When Apps Script calls the Gemini API, two limits collide: UrlFetchApp's response timeout and the 6-minute script runtime cap. Here is how to tell them apart and how I work around them with chunking, checkpoints, and time-based triggers.
Diagnosing INVALID_ARGUMENT Errors in Gemini API Batch Image Analysis
When using the Gemini API to analyze multiple images at once, INVALID_ARGUMENT errors can be surprisingly hard to diagnose. This guide covers the three root causes—MIME type mismatches, inline data size limits, and contents structure errors—with code to fix each one.
Debugging Gemini API Calls from Next.js App Router Server Actions
Practical solutions for the most common errors when calling Gemini API from Next.js App Router Server Actions: undefined env vars, broken streaming, and deploy-only failures.
3 Gemini API Embedding Errors I Hit Building a Wallpaper App — and How I Fixed Them
Three real Gemini API Embedding errors encountered while building an auto-categorization feature for a wallpaper app with 50M+ downloads: INVALID_ARGUMENT, RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED 429, and poor RAG precision — with working code fixes.
3 Gemini Code Execution Errors and How to Fix Them — Import Errors, Timeouts, and Empty Outputs
Fix the most common Gemini API Code Execution issues: missing tool configuration, unsupported library imports, and timeout errors. Includes working code examples for each fix.
Google AI Studio Build Mode Not Working — Blank Preview, Deploy Failures, and Other Common Issues
Troubleshoot Google AI Studio Build Mode issues: blank preview panels, prompts that don't apply, Firebase deployment failures, and code getting overwritten. Each problem with a concrete fix.
Gemini File API Stuck in PROCESSING State: Timeout Handling and Retry Design
Fix Gemini File API files stuck in PROCESSING state. Learn proper polling with exponential backoff, timeout design, and cleanup strategies with working Python code examples.
Gemini 3.2 API Suddenly Broke — 5 Common Errors and How to Fix Them
Switched to Gemini 3.2 API and hit a wall? This guide covers 5 common errors developers encounter during migration — wrong model IDs, rate limits, context overflow, streaming interruptions, and Function Calling schema failures — with working code fixes.
Gemini API: RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED When Sending Large PDFs or Videos via inlineData — When to Switch to Files API
Why the Gemini API returns RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED for large PDFs or videos sent via inlineData, and a practical migration path to Files API based on real indie-developer experience.
What I Tried, In Order, When Gemini API Returned User location is not supported in Production
Hitting the Gemini API from Cloudflare Workers or Vercel and getting hit with a sudden 'User location is not supported' error? Here is the exact order I worked through, drawn from a live production incident on my own indie apps.