{"product_id":"ai-agents-the-definitive-guide-design-deployment-and-evaluation-for-production-9798341666931","title":"AI Agents: The Definitive Guide: Design, Deployment, and Evaluation for Production","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs AI agents move from research labs into production, engineering teams face mounting challenges--fragile tools, rising inference costs, erratic behavior, and unmet expectations. \u003cem\u003eAI Agents: The Definitive Guide\u003c\/em\u003e addresses what most books avoid: how to design, deploy, and maintain real AI agents that actually work in the real world, not just in demos. Written by Nicole Koenigstein, this book offers the practical, system-level foundations needed to build robust, scalable, and secure agentic systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhether you're tasked with making agent prototypes production-ready or building mission-critical automation from the ground up, this book guides you through every layer of the stack, without being framework-dependent. It covers architectures, tool integration, performance optimization, safety strategies, and advanced evaluation, with a relentless focus on reliability and long-term value.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eDesign stateful, reasoning, and multi-agent systems\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eApply reinforcement learning, search, and test-time compute\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBuild reliable tool integration and execution boundaries\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEvaluate agents across development and production\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDesign memory, monitoring, fallbacks, and efficient infrastructure\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSecure agents through isolation, governance, and threat modeling\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicole Koenigstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e O'Reilly Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.19h x 7.00w x 0.78d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798341666931\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKoenigstein, Nicole:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Nicole Koenigstein is an AI researcher and practitioner in agentic systems, working across research, consulting, teaching, and direct system implementation to build reliable, production-ready AI systems. Her work focuses on multi-agent architectures, evaluation, safety, and long-term system behavior.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e She served as an external evaluator for a European Commission AI Grand Challenge and has advised IOSCO on generative AI in regulated environments. She also serves on advisory boards for leading AI and quantitative finance conferences. Nicole regularly delivers invited talks and technical workshops across academia, industry, and international events.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMath for Machine Learning\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTransformers in Action\u003c\/i\u003e with Manning Publications. Her forthcoming books, \u003ci\u003eTransformers: The Definitive Guide--Applications Beyond NLP\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAI Agents: The Definitive Guide\u003c\/i\u003e, will be published by O'Reilly Media.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Nicole Koenigstein \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":49001558605981,"sku":"9798341666931","price":95.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_09396bed-7100-4b1a-b014-ca3821ffb322.jpg?v=1791979871","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/ai-agents-the-definitive-guide-design-deployment-and-evaluation-for-production-9798341666931","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}