System Design for AI Agents

This system design course covers the core architecture, data pipelines, and infrastructure required to design, build, and scale production-grade AI Agents.

1. Agent Architecture & Core Logic

• Reasoning Models: ReAct, Chain-of-Thought and Plan-and-Solve patterns.
• Memory Systems: Short-term conversational state vs. long-term vector retention.
• Tool Orchestration: Function calling registries, dynamic API routing and fallback loops.

2. Data Infrastructure & State Management

• Vector Databases: Scaling embedding pipelines, hybrid search and chunking strategies.
• State Machines: Distributed session tracking, checkpoints and multi-agent synchronization.
• Knowledge Graphs: Integrating structured graph data for deterministic context retrieval.

3. Deployment & Scalability

• LLM Serving: Maximizing throughput using batching, caching and open-source engines (e.g., vLLM).
• Event-Driven Runtimes: Processing long-running background tasks via message queues.
• Streaming APIs: Real-time response generation using WebSockets and Server-Sent Events (SSE).

4. Guardrails & Evaluation

• Security: Prompt injection defenses, PII masking and input/output sanitization.
• Agent Evaluation: Automated testing frameworks for execution drift and factual accuracy.

5. Observability & Lifecycle

• Trace Logging: Tracking multi-step tool execution graphs and token latency.
• Cost Optimization: LLM budget management through semantic caching and smart model routing.

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