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
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.
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Who This Book Is For:
Enterprise product managers
Dhanesh Aradhye
GenerativeAI Gen AI Engineering AI architect AI Product designer Gen AI Integration RAG architectures LangChain LangGraph MLOps workflows Embeddings multi-cloud data high-growth enterprises