An End-to-End Guide to Building Production-Ready AI Systems
Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm
ISBN: 979-8-8688-3343-4
Verlag: APRESS L.P.
This book is a hands-on, end-to-end guide for developers and practitioners who want to move past demos and prototypes and build AI systems that actually run in production. Instead of leaning on abstract theory, it focuses on the practical tools, patterns, and lessons learned from real-world implementations and helps you turn promising LLM ideas into reliable, cost-effective applications that deliver measurable business value for your enterprise. Each concept is grounded in implementation, covering prompting strategies, tool use, data pipelines, embeddings, and production-ready RAG architectures.
Along the way, you’ll learn how to design systems that are observable, resilient, and financially sustainable, with a constant focus on what matters in real environments: controlling costs, improving reliability, and knowing how to measure whether your AI is truly making an impact. You’ll incrementally build a complete AI application using agents, orchestrators such as LangChain and LangGraph, MLOps workflows, monitoring, and security guardrails, ending with a fully deployable, enterprise-ready solution.
By the end of the book, you’ll know how to evaluate quality, deploy safely, and scale with confidence across cloud and on-prem environments. All reference code, exercises, and solutions are available in a public GitHub repository, making this a practical companion for anyone serious about building production-grade AI systems.
What You Will Learn:
- Build and integrate LLMs into production systems using advanced prompting techniques
- Design robust data pipelines and embedding architectures for AI applications
- Implement end-to-end MLOps workflows, including deployment, monitoring, optimization, and security guardrails
Who This Book Is For:
Enterprise product managers
Zielgruppe
Professional/practitioner
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Part I: Foundations and Data.- Chapter 1: LLM Foundations and Production Patterns.- Chapter 2: Data Engineering and Embeddings for AI.- Chapter 3: Production RAG Systems.- Part II: Orchestration and Deployment.- Chapter 4: AI Agents and Orchestration.- Chapter 5: Deployment and MLOps.- Part III: Quality and Production.- Chapter 6: AI Quality Frameworks and Production Observability.- Chapter 7: Fine-Tuning and Model Optimization.- Chapter 8: Building Your Complete AI Application.




