System Design for the AI Era (Paperback)
Language: English
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Paperback. Building an AI prototype is easy. Building an AI system you can actually trust in production is not.A model can generate an impressive response in minutes. But what happens when traffic increases, retrieval becomes stale, an API times out, an agent repeats an action, costs spike, or a model change silently reduces quality?If you're building with LLMs, RAG, AI agents, or generative AI, you've probably discovered that getting the model to work is only the beginning. How should LLM system design handle probabilistic outputs? How do you scale inference reliably? How should RAG architecture deliver fresh, grounded knowledge? How do you manage memory and state, design safe agents, and keep everything secure and observable?System Design for the AI Era bridges the gap between AI experimentation and production AI engineering. Instead of treating the model as the architecture, this book shows you how to design the surrounding generative AI architecture that makes probabilistic AI dependable in production.Inside, you'll learn how to: Design production AI systems around quality, latency, reliability, security, scalability, and costBuild model gateways and model inference architecture with routing, fallbacks, retries, circuit breakers, caching, streaming, and async inferenceEngineer production RAG architecture with ingestion, hybrid retrieval, reranking, grounding, provenance, freshness, and GraphRAGManage context, memory, persistent state, token budgets, privacy, and data lifecycleDesign safe AI agent architecture with tools, checkpoints, durable execution, human approval, authorization, and recoveryBuild LLM evaluation systems with golden datasets, regression testing, guardrails, and quality gatesApply queues, backpressure, load shedding, batching, caching, concurrency controls, capacity planning, and failure injectionImplement AI observability with distributed tracing, telemetry, SLO monitoring, and incident diagnosisEngineer scalable AI infrastructure with containers, Kubernetes, GPUs, workload isolation, and autoscalingApply LLMOps across models, prompts, RAG, evaluation, CI/CD, shadow releases, canaries, rollback, and migrationControl AI economics through cost-aware routing, context budgets, caching, batching, and infrastructure utilizationStudy production architectures for enterprise RAG, customer-support agents, and high-throughput multi-model AI platformsRather than giving you disconnected AI demos, the book develops a progressive production AI reference system, showing how a simple model-backed application evolves as real production requirements emerge.Whether you're a software engineer, AI engineer, backend developer, architect, platform engineer, or technical leader, you'll develop the architectural judgment needed to build AI systems for real users, real traffic, real failures, real security boundaries, and real costs.Stop thinking only about prompts and models. Start thinking like a production AI systems engineer.Get System Design for the AI Era and learn to turn powerful AI capabilities into dependable, scalable, observable, secure, and production-ready systems. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- System Design for the AI Era (Paperback)
- Author
- Nolan Veyne
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Publication year
- 2026
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- new
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798193363958
Building an AI prototype is easy. Building an AI system you can actually trust in production is not.
A model can generate an impressive response in minutes. But what happens when traffic increases, retrieval becomes stale, an API times out, an agent repeats an action, costs spike, or a model change silently reduces quality?
If you're building with LLMs, RAG, AI agents, or generative AI, you've probably discovered that getting the model to work is only the beginning. How should LLM system design handle probabilistic outputs? How do you scale inference reliably? How should RAG architecture deliver fresh, grounded knowledge? How do you manage memory and state, design safe agents, and keep everything secure and observable?
System Design for the AI Era bridges the gap between AI experimentation and production AI engineering. Instead of treating the model as the architecture, this book shows you how to design the surrounding generative AI architecture that makes probabilistic AI dependable in production.
Inside, you'll learn how to:
- Design production AI systems around quality, latency, reliability, security, scalability, and cost
- Build model gateways and model inference architecture with routing, fallbacks, retries, circuit breakers, caching, streaming, and async inference
- Engineer production RAG architecture with ingestion, hybrid retrieval, reranking, grounding, provenance, freshness, and GraphRAG
- Manage context, memory, persistent state, token budgets, privacy, and data lifecycle
- Design safe AI agent architecture with tools, checkpoints, durable execution, human approval, authorization, and recovery
- Build LLM evaluation systems with golden datasets, regression testing, guardrails, and quality gates
- Apply queues, backpressure, load shedding, batching, caching, concurrency controls, capacity planning, and failure injection
- Implement AI observability with distributed tracing, telemetry, SLO monitoring, and incident diagnosis
- Engineer scalable AI infrastructure with containers, Kubernetes, GPUs, workload isolation, and autoscaling
- Apply LLMOps across models, prompts, RAG, evaluation, CI/CD, shadow releases, canaries, rollback, and migration
- Control AI economics through cost-aware routing, context budgets, caching, batching, and infrastructure utilization
- Study production architectures for enterprise RAG, customer-support agents, and high-throughput multi-model AI platforms
Rather than giving you disconnected AI demos, the book develops a progressive production AI reference system, showing how a simple model-backed application evolves as real production requirements emerge.
Whether you're a software engineer, AI engineer, backend developer, architect, platform engineer, or technical leader, you'll develop the architectural judgment needed to build AI systems for real users, real traffic, real failures, real security boundaries, and real costs.
Stop thinking only about prompts and models. Start thinking like a production AI systems engineer.
Get System Design for the AI Era and learn to turn powerful AI capabilities into dependable, scalable, observable, secure, and production-ready systems.
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