Systems Thinking for Agentic AI

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Welcome to the Leanpub Launch video for Systems Thinking for Agentic AI: A Software Architect’s Guide to Building Reliable LLM and Agent Systems https://leanpub.com/staai by Ediz Najim! 0:00 Ediz Najim introduces himself as a software architect with 20+ years of distributed systems experience 0:54 Why AI demos fail in production and what motivated Ediz to write the book 1:41 Who the book is for: software engineers, backend developers, and technical leads moving beyond demos 2:29 The challenge of systems thinking and engineering mindset for running reliable AI systems at scale 3:15 How the software world will change in the near future and why developers need to understand AI infrastructure 4:06 The LLM-as-brain analogy: why LLMs alone are insufficient and need tools, RAG, MCP, and surrounding components 4:54 The next generation of software will be built over AI, shifting how developers write programs 5:41 The problem of fluent but wrong LLM outputs and the need for safe, reliable agentic AI systems 6:28 How the book is structured: from LLM fundamentals through RAG, MCP, and system components 7:15 Closing thoughts on building safe, reliable, traceable, and observable agentic AI systems About the Book Build real AI agent systems, not fragile demos. Systems Thinking for Agentic AI is a practical architecture book for software engineers, backend developers, technical leads, and software architects who want to design production-ready applications with large language models. LLMs are powerful, but an LLM alone is not a system. Real AI applications need prompts, retrieval, tools, memory, orchestration, guardrails, evaluation, observability, and runtime control working together inside clear engineering boundaries. This book explains how to move from simple chatbot experiments to reliable AI-enabled software systems. It focuses on the production realities that matter after the demo works: latency, cost, failure handling, tool execution, structured outputs, testing, tracing, safety controls, and maintainability. Who this book is for This book is for software engineers, backend developers, technical leads, and software architects who want to build practical AI systems. You do not need a machine learning background. If you already build backend services with APIs, distributed systems, and system design in mind, this book helps you extend that skill set into AI-powered systems. What you will learn You will learn how LLMs process language through tokens, embeddings, and transformers, how to control model behavior with prompting and structured output, how to connect LLMs to production systems through tools and MCP, how to build RAG pipelines, and how to design agent workflows with planning, memory, orchestration, and controlled execution. The book also covers guardrails, validation, permissions, human approval boundaries, evaluation, hallucination reduction, regression testing, observability, performance, cost, scaling, retries, fallbacks, and an end-to-end Code Review Agent implementation with Spring Boot. Many developers know how to call an AI API. Far fewer know how to design a reliable system around it. That gap is where many AI projects fail. This book treats AI as software architecture, not magic. About the Author Ediz Najim is a software architect and technical leader with nearly two decades of experience designing and building distributed systems, microservices, and production-grade backend platforms. His work focuses on event-driven architecture, reliability, performance, and the practical engineering of AI-enabled software systems. In Systems Thinking for Agentic AI, he brings a software architecture perspective to LLM applications, RAG, tool orchestration, agent runtimes, guardrails, observability, and production reliability. His writing is aimed at engineers, architects, and technical leaders who want to move beyond AI demos and design systems that can operate under real-world constraints. Follow the author here! https://x.com/systhinkingai Thank you for watching, please like and leave a comment, we'd love to hear from you! Please Subscribe and Follow! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/leanpub X: https://x.com/leanpub Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leanpub Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leanpub Create Your Own Leanpub Book! You can create your own book anytime here: https://leanpub.com/create/book Here's the tutorial showing how to write and publish a Leanpub book in your browser (it's free!): http://help.leanpub.com/en/articles/2932527-getting-started-writing-a-book-in-the-web-browser-writing-mode If you're a Leanpub author and you'd like to submit your own Launch video for us to publish, or if you'd like to record a Launch video with Len, please go here: https://leanpub.com/launch. #books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #leanpub #writing #ai #softwareengineering #softwarearchitecture #agenticengineering #largelanguagemodels #AgenticAI #LLMArchitecture #SystemsThinking #RAG #SoftwareArchitecture