Anthropic - Claude Certified Developer - Foundations Study Guide

2: Applications and Integration

This chapter turns business goals into buildable Claude systems: how to write measurable requirements, pick a deployment target, and respect the compliance and rate-limit boundaries that govern a production workspace. It then details Claude API mechanics at practitioner depth, including the Messages API request shape, streaming, vision, thinking, caching, third-party platforms, and batch processing, before covering the software-engineering discipline, application-design decisions, and configuration management that keep a Claude integration shippable.