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New MEAP! Designing AI Agents
Principles, patterns, and best practices
AI agents promise to automate work on an unprecedented scale—even for tasks requiring reasoning and complex multi-step processes. But where do you start? How do you budget your dev time and token spend? What do you do with an agent that “almost works?” How do you scale or improve a multi-agent system? Designing AI Agents answers all these questions, and more.
This innovative book explores 27 reusable patterns that you can apply to your own agentic systems confidently. Each pattern has been stress-tested at scale, with over 10,000 engineers applying them to ship production
agents in banks, manufacturers, and AI startups. You’ll appreciate how this book guides you toward system and harness design that impose certainty and reliability on the non-deterministic behavior of LLM-driven agents. Once you catch author Jia Huang’s vision, you’ll stop asking “which tools” and start asking "which patterns”! [Read more]
5 chapters of this new MEAP are available now, with more to follow soon!
Replacing manual prompts with systematic optimization
Traditional prompts often become brittle as models and data evolve. Building LLM Applications with DSPy by Serj Smorodinsky and Brett Kennedy introduces the DSPy framework, which replaces static text prompts with flexible Python-based contracts that adapt automatically over time. The book shows how DSPy optimizes context, evaluates prompt performance, and adjusts applications as models drift, helping developers maintain reliable results as AI systems grow more complex.
Focused on practical implementation, the book teaches DSPy best practices for building
production-ready AI systems through task design, evaluation, and optimization. Readers build real applications—including classification systems, summarizers, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows—using DSPy’s modular architecture without hand-writing prompts. Along the way, the authors provide clear guidance, examples, and proven techniques for creating scalable, dependable LLM applications. [Read more]
6 chapters of this new MEAP are available now with more to follow soon!
New MEAP! Web Component Development with Modern Libraries and Tooling
Build, test, and scale framework-agnostic web components
Development teams increasingly face pressure to future-proof their code—and that makes framework lock-in a serious liability. Web components deliver something no JavaScript framework can match: true portability. Built on W3C standards and supported natively by every modern browser, web components let you build UI elements once and reuse them anywhere.
In Web Component Development with Modern Libraries and Tooling, you’ll learn how to build reusable web components that last well beyond the next library update.
In each chapter, you’ll work on progressively more
sophisticated example components including hello-world, google-button, radio-group, sortable-table, and traffic-light. Every example is chosen to illustrate concepts in a flexible way you can adapt to your own real-world projects. And unlike scattered blog posts and lightweight video tutorials, this substantial book provides both a clear structured learning path and a valuable reference for your future projects. [Read more]
6 chapters of this new MEAP are available now with more to follow soon!
Discover a practical introduction to building firmware that is fast, efficient, and far safer than traditional embedded software written in C or C++. Rust gives developers the low-level control embedded systems demand, but adds modern guarantees around memory safety, data races, and error handling. In a field where a single bug can cause crashes, security flaws, or costly field failures, those guarantees are a major advantage. [Read more]
4 chapters of this MEAP are available now, with more to follow soon!
CrewAI makes it easy to build multiagent AI systems that can automate everything from customer support to composing marketing blogs. In this book you’ll learn how to get the most out of CrewAI to organise and scale whole teams of agents. You’ll go beyond documentation basics, putting CrewAI and the model context protocol (MCP) into action to assemble agentic crews that can handle complex automation tasks. [Read more]
4 chapters of this MEAP are available now, with more to follow soon!
Can a machine—especially modern AI—truly think? The question isn’t just an interesting hypothetical: the answer can radically shift how we utilize AI and LLMs in business today. This book translates cutting edge discussion around machine intelligence into practical implication for real-world AI application. It presents a clear framework for interpreting AI behaviour, reframing the question of “can AI think?” into practical considerations for how these systems should be used. [Read more]
5 chapters of this MEAP are available now, with more to follow soon!
Today's AI models demand a lot of memory, compute, and server horsepower—which quickly translates into cost. This book shows you how you can optimize AI models without architectural redesigns or task-specific compression. It reveals practical techniques for quantization, systematically reducing numerical precision to achieve faster inference, lower memory usage, and cheaper deployment—all with minimal accuracy loss. [Read more]
In this practical guide for offensive security professionals, you’ll learn how to create intelligent agents that automate parts of security testing while preserving safety, auditability, and human oversight. You’ll build your first security agent, explore how artifacts and pipelines structure agentic workflows, and see how AI can help interpret results, prioritize findings, and reduce manual triage. [Read more]
4 chapters of this MEAP are available now, with more to follow soon!
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