⚡ Bolt: Optimize Groq calls to use AsyncGroq

[Adityasingh-8858]

💡 What: Replaced synchronous Groq client with AsyncGroq and awaited the chat.completions.create calls in backend/main.py.
🎯 Why: Synchronous network calls inside a FastAPI async def route block the main thread/event loop entirely. During the 1-3 seconds it takes to generate a response, the server cannot process any other requests or heartbeats.
📊 Impact: Expected to significantly increase server concurrency and responsiveness. In standalone benchmarking, it allowed 5 concurrent heartbeats compared to 1 during a mocked 2-second LLM call.
🔬 Measurement: Verify by running the backend under load, or by observing event loop unresponsiveness metrics before and after the change. Tests pass via cd backend && PYTHONPATH=. pytest -v -p anyio -p asyncio -o asyncio_mode=auto.

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the FastAPI backend to use Groq’s asynchronous client so LLM requests don’t block the event loop, improving concurrency during chat completion calls.

Changes:

• Replaced the synchronous Groq client with AsyncGroq in backend/main.py.
• Updated Groq completion calls to be awaited in async endpoints.
• Added a short “Bolt” learning note documenting the event loop blocking issue.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
backend/main.py	Switches Groq client to AsyncGroq and awaits completion calls inside async routes.
.jules/bolt.md	Documents the learning/action item about avoiding sync Groq calls in async FastAPI endpoints.

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Suggested change

[Copilot]

The async Groq-call path introduced here isn’t exercised by the current test suite (tests appear to run with FORCE_MOCK_GROQ=1 and/or no GROQ_API_KEY), so regressions in the real-client integration (e.g., incorrect await/response shape) may go unnoticed. Consider adding a unit test that monkeypatches AsyncGroq (or groq_client.chat.completions.create) to an async stub and asserts this branch works end-to-end without making a network call.

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groq_client is now an AsyncGroq instance, but it is never closed during application shutdown. Async clients typically hold an underlying HTTP session/connection pool; without cleanup this can leak sockets and cause warnings on shutdown. Consider adding shutdown cleanup in lifespan (e.g., await groq_client.aclose()/equivalent and set groq_client = None).

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Lazy initialization of the global groq_client is not concurrency-safe: multiple concurrent requests can observe groq_client is None and each create an AsyncGroq client. This can lead to unnecessary sessions and harder-to-reason-about lifecycle management. Consider protecting initialization with an asyncio.Lock, or initialize once in lifespan (and reuse/close it there).