{"product_id":"llms-in-production-by-christopher-brousseau","title":"LLMs in Production\nby Christopher Brousseau","description":"\u003cp\u003eGoes beyond academic discussions deeply into the applications layer of Foundation Models.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis practical book offers clear, example-rich explanations of how LLMs work, how you can interact with them, and how to integrate LLMs into your own applications. Find out what makes LLMs so different from traditional software and ML, discover best practices for working with them out of the lab, and dodge common pitfalls with experienced advice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book complements Sebastian Raschka’s Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch), which focuses on building and understanding LLMs from the ground up, by extending that foundation into real-world production—covering integration, cost-efficient training, and model evaluation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn LLMs in Production you will:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e• Grasp the fundamentals of LLMs and the technology behind them\u003cbr\u003e\n• Evaluate when to use a premade LLM and when to build your own\u003cbr\u003e\n• Efficiently scale up an ML platform to handle the needs of LLMs\u003cbr\u003e\n• Train LLM foundation models and finetune an existing LLM\u003cbr\u003e\n• Deploy LLMs to the cloud and edge devices using complex architectures like PEFT and LoRA\u003cbr\u003e\n• Build applications leveraging the strengths of LLMs while mitigating their weaknesses\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLLMs in Production delivers vital insights into delivering MLOps so you can easily and seamlessly guide one to production usage. Inside, you’ll find practical insights into everything from acquiring an LLM-suitable training dataset, building a platform, and compensating for their immense size. Plus, tips and tricks for prompt engineering, retraining and load testing, handling costs, and ensuring security.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForeword by Joe Reis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePurchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF and ePub formats from Manning Publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the technology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost business software is developed and improved iteratively, and can change significantly even after deployment. By contrast, because LLMs are expensive to create and difficult to modify, they require meticulous upfront planning, exacting data standards, and carefully-executed technical implementation. Integrating LLMs into production products impacts every aspect of your operations plan, including the application lifecycle, data pipeline, compute cost, security, and more. Get it wrong, and you may have a costly failure on your hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the book\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLLMs in Production teaches you how to develop an LLMOps plan that can take an AI app smoothly from design to delivery. You’ll learn techniques for preparing an LLM dataset, cost-efficient training hacks like LORA and RLHF, and industry benchmarks for model evaluation. Along the way, you’ll put your new skills to use in three exciting example projects: creating and training a custom LLM, building a VSCode AI coding extension, and deploying a small model to a Raspberry Pi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat's inside\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e• Balancing cost and performance\u003cbr\u003e\n• Retraining and load testing\u003cbr\u003e\n• Optimizing models for commodity hardware\u003cbr\u003e\n• Deploying on a Kubernetes cluster\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the reader\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor data scientists and ML engineers who know Python and the basics of cloud deployment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChristopher Brousseau and Matt Sharp are experienced engineers who have led numerous successful large scale LLM deployments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1 Generative AI: Why large language models have captured attention\u003cbr\u003e\n2 Large language models: A deep dive into language modeling\u003cbr\u003e\n3 Large language model operations: Building a platform for LLMs\u003cbr\u003e\n4 Data engineering for large language models: Setting up for success\u003cbr\u003e\n5 Training large language models: How to generate the generator\u003cbr\u003e\n6 Large language model services: A practical guide\u003cbr\u003e\n7 Prompt engineering: Becoming an LLM whisperer\u003cbr\u003e\n8 Applications and Agents: Building an interactive experience\u003cbr\u003e\n9 Creating an LLM project: Reimplementing Llama 3\u003cbr\u003e\n10 Creating a coding copilot project: Integrating an LLM service into VS Code with RAG\u003cbr\u003e\n11 Deploying an LLM on a Raspberry Pi: How low can you go?\u003cbr\u003e\n12 Production, an ever-changing landscape: Things are just getting started\u003cbr\u003e\nA History of linguistics\u003cbr\u003e\nB Reinforcement learning with human feedback\u003cbr\u003e\nC Multimodal latent spaces\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books Feri","offers":[{"title":"Premium Paperback","offer_id":45409793900735,"sku":null,"price":335.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"Premium Hardcover","offer_id":45405217456319,"sku":null,"price":435.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0692\/8148\/0895\/files\/71zJO43b98L._SY342.jpg?v=1772988859","url":"https:\/\/booksferi.store\/products\/llms-in-production-by-christopher-brousseau","provider":"Books Feri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}