{"product_id":"managing-production-large-language-models-playbook-for-designing-deploying-and-operating-llm-at-scale-and-machine-learning-finops-blueprints-9798904980153","title":"Managing Production Large Language Models: Playbook for Designing, Deploying, and Operating LLM at Scale and Machine Learning FinOps Blueprints","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jordan O'Neal\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cybersoft Publishing LLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cybersoft Publishing LLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Data Science - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritten for ML architects, ML and LLM engineers, and technical leads, with platform and SRE engineers as a strong secondary audience.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLarge language models fail in production in ways no load test anticipates. A retrieval-augmented pipeline answers confidently with fabricated citations when the vector index drifts. An agent loop burns a month of API budget in forty minutes because one tool call returned an unexpected schema. A prompt that cleared every red-team review gets hijacked by a malicious document in the first week of real traffic. Latency spikes vanish with no correlated metric because the KV cache was sized for a context window half as long as users actually send. These are the predictable failure modes of LLM systems, and teams that ship reliable LLM features design against them with patterns that hold across models, vendors, and inference frameworks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside this book, readers will learn how to: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOperate LLMs in production\u003c\/b\u003e with the reliability, cost discipline, and observability the rest of the stack already expects.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSelect and size models\u003c\/b\u003e using a structured framework that weighs capability, latency, cost, and compliance before the first token is generated.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eChoose between fine-tuning and prompting\u003c\/b\u003e applying LoRA, PEFT, and instruction-tuning where they outperform prompt engineering and recognizing when they do not.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eServe LLMs at scale\u003c\/b\u003e with continuous batching, paged attention, and KV cache management to maximize throughput and meet latency SLOs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEngineer LLM costs\u003c\/b\u003e through semantic caching, model tiering, and FinOps practices that keep inference spend predictable as usage grows.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDefend against prompt injection and detect hallucinations\u003c\/b\u003e using layered input validation, output verification, and guardrails that hold under adversarial conditions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eInstrument LLM systems for observability\u003c\/b\u003e capturing reasoning traces, semantic drift signals, and metrics that distinguish a degraded model from a degraded pipeline.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDrive quality with eval-driven development\u003c\/b\u003e building replay harnesses, canary deployments, and evaluation gates so every model update ships with a known risk profile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBuild production RAG and agent systems\u003c\/b\u003e with retrieval quality metrics, tool-call guardrails, and loop termination policies that keep costs bounded.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNavigate compliance obligations\u003c\/b\u003e including the EU AI Act and sector-specific rules without stalling LLM feature delivery.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eThe LLM tooling landscape rotates fast: the serving framework favored today will be superseded before the next model generation ships. The underlying patterns do not rotate: how to reason about context budget and cache hit rate, how to structure an evaluation harness that survives a model swap, and how to build an observability layer that surfaces model-layer failures the application cannot see. Teams that internalize these patterns move faster when tools change because they replace syntax, not understanding.\u003cbr\u003eThe book is organized in four parts: Foundations covers the LLM landscape, model selection, and adaptation patterns; Adaptation and Serving addresses fine-tuning, serving architectures, and cost engineering; Production Concerns covers safety, compliance, observability, and LLM CI\/CD; and Frontier Patterns and Case Studies applies all prior material to RAG, agentic systems, and tool-using LLMs, closing with end-to-end reference architectures.\u003cbr\u003eWritten for ML architects, ML and LLM engineers, and technical leads, with platform and SRE engineers as a strong secondary audience. Every chapter opens with a production incident, teaches canonical patterns by name, and closes with a checklist the team can apply the same day. Readers finish with the vocabulary, playbook, and pattern library to ship reliable LLM features with confidence.","brand":"Cybersoft Publishing LLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47882764943511,"sku":"9798904980153","price":2533.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798904980153.webp?v=1781096901","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/managing-production-large-language-models-playbook-for-designing-deploying-and-operating-llm-at-scale-and-machine-learning-finops-blueprints-9798904980153","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}