lemming, this is super helpful, thank you. We provide the genai SDK (https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai) to reduce the learning curve in 4 languages (GA: Python, Go Preview: Node.JS, Java). The SDK works for all Gemini APIs provided by Google AI Studio (https://ai.google.dev/) and Vertex AI.
The way dependency resolution works in Java with the special, Google only, giant dynamic BOM resolver is hell on earth.
We have to write code that round robins every region on retries to get past how overloaded/poorly managed vertex is (we're not hitting our quotas) and yes that's even with retry settings on the SDK.
Read timeouts aren't configurable on the Vertex SDK.
