{"product_id":"9798868832215","title":"Agentic Architectures on Azure Building Production-Grade AI Agent Systems with Microsoft Cloud Services","description":"\u003ch1\u003eAgentic Architectures on Azure\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eBuilding Production-Grade AI Agent Systems with Microsoft Cloud Services\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eRicardo Cataldi\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eComputers \/ Programming \/ Microsoft\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is a practical, production-focused guide to building autonomous AI agent systems that go beyond prototypes. As organizations move from demos to real-world deployments, they encounter challenges around scalability, security, cost, and reliability—areas often overlooked in existing resources. This book addresses those gaps by applying proven distributed systems principles, such as bounded contexts, contract-based communication, and resilience, to multi-agent AI systems on Azure.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eUsing a hands-on, progressive approach, you’ll build a multi-agent retail system from scratch—starting with a single agent on Azure Container Apps and evolving into a full event-driven architecture powered by Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, and the Microsoft Agent Framework. You’ll learn how to design agent boundaries, enable synchronous and asynchronous communication, and orchestrate intelligent workflows using modern Azure services, with working code and infrastructure templates throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe book also covers what it takes to run these systems in production, including secure zero-trust architectures, CI\/CD pipelines, observability, and cost control. 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He covers enterprise customers across the Americas, designing and reviewing production AI agent systems running on Azure. He is also Academic Coordinator for Machine Learning Engineering at FIAP (Faculdade de Informática e Administração Paulista), one of Brazil's leading technology universities, where he built and teaches the graduate MLEng curriculum covering distributed AI systems, MLOps, and production agent architecture. He holds M.Sc. degrees in Applied Mathematics (USP, 2018) and Applied Economics (UFRGS, 2014), a specialization from IMPA, and a B.Sc. in Computer Science (Mackenzie). He is lead contributor to Azure Samples projects: Holiday Peak Hub (21-agent retail system), Tayra (GenAI call center analytics on Azure AI Foundry), and Tutor (AI speech avatar tutoring). 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