Building AI Agent Platforms

About this book

Generative AI is quickly becoming essential infrastructure for business. But while building a single AI-powered app is relatively simple, creating a platform that allows multiple teams to build, deploy, and maintain agents--securely, reliably, and at scale--is a far greater challenge. Too often, organizations add GenAI capabilities to existing systems without a strategic plan. The result? Cost overruns, governance blind spots, and stalled adoption. In Building AI Agent Platforms, Ben O'Mahony and Fabian Nonnenmacher present a complete roadmap for doing it right. Blending strategic vision with deep engineering expertise, they guide you through the full-agent life cycle, from investing in the appropriate GenAI capabilities and defining your architecture, to production, observability, and security guardrails. With practical patterns, deployment strategies, and troubleshooting techniques, this book helps platform, MLOps, and DevOps teams, as well as CTOs and engineering leaders, build sustainable AI platforms that deliver value from day one and evolve with your organization's needs.