Practical Agentic AI: Workflow Strategies and Patterns for Modern AI Engineers

Practical Agentic AI: Workflow Strategies and Patterns for Modern AI Engineers

At its core, Practical Agentic AI equips engineers with battle-tested workflow patterns to build reliable, scalable AI agents. From setting up your first "HelloWorld" agent to orchestrating multi-agent pipelines in Kubernetes, this book transforms fragile prototypes into production-ready systems.

What you'll gain:

• Rock-solid foundations: Master environment setup, dependency management, and your first agentic workflow (Chapter 1).

• Persistent memory & context: Choose between in-memory caches and vector databases (Weaviate, Pinecone) for seamless state management (Chapter 2).

• Tool integration made simple: Define JSON schemas for tools, register them at runtime, and handle errors with retry logic (Chapter 3).

• Automated task planning: Generate structured plans with LLMChains, decompose complex goals, and distribute subtasks to worker agents (Chapter 4).

• Self-healing pipelines: Build validator agents, implement self-correction loops, and fall back to backup models when things go wrong (Chapters 5).

• Multi-agent collaboration: Leverage RabbitMQ or Redis Streams for event-driven communication and orchestrate parallel workflows with fan-out/fan-in patterns (Chapters 6).

• Production readiness: Containerize agents with Docker, deploy on Kubernetes with ConfigMaps and health probes, and automate CI/CD via GitHub Actions (Chapters 7-9).

• Observability & security: Instrument with OpenTelemetry, expose Prometheus metrics, enforce OAuth 2.0, encrypt data at rest, and maintain audit trails (Chapters 8-9).

• Testing & optimization: Unit-test with pytest, run integration tests via Docker Compose, validate contracts with JSON schemas, and profile workflows using cProfile and Py-Spy (Chapters 10-11).

Each chapter delivers clear, copy-paste-ready code aligned with official docs, practical analogies that clarify complex concepts, and checklists to keep you on track.

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