AI Agent Orchestration: From Prototypes to Production

Master enterprise-grade multi-agent systems with monitoring, security, cost optimization, and scaling for 1000+ concurrent requests

$1.41

ROI per $1 Invested

$3,999

Course Price

150

Students (Year 1)

27-60%

Cost Savings Potential

Course Summary

Duration

15 sessions × 90-120 minutes each (22.5-30 hours total)

Format

Live cohort-based + hands-on labs + production deployment

Prerequisites

Python (advanced), distributed systems, cloud infrastructure knowledge

Completion

Certificate + Production-deployed multi-agent system

Technology Stack
Python LangGraph CrewAI AutoGen AWS/Azure/GCP Kubernetes Claude 3.5 Sonnet Prometheus/Grafana

What You'll Master

  • Design scalable multi-agent system architectures (centralized, decentralized, hierarchical)
  • Choose the right framework (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen) for production use cases
  • Test non-deterministic LLM systems with confidence using LLM-as-judge patterns
  • Deploy agent systems to production with CI/CD automation and blue-green deployments
  • Monitor systems with comprehensive observability (logs, metrics, traces)
  • Secure agents against prompt injection and other attacks (56% exploit rate reduction)
  • Optimize costs by 27-60% through caching, model selection, and architecture design
  • Integrate with enterprise systems (databases, APIs, legacy systems)
  • Scale to handle 1000+ concurrent requests with autoscaling and load balancing
  • Operate production systems with incident management and on-call procedures

Complete 15-Session Curriculum

Module 1: Foundations (Sessions 1-3)

Framework mastery and architectural design patterns

Learning Objectives
  • Understand multi-agent AI market landscape and enterprise adoption trends
  • Differentiate between single-agent and multi-agent architectures
  • Identify real-world use cases and ROI drivers ($1.41 per $1 invested)
  • Build your first simple multi-agent system
Key Topics
  • Klarna case study: $40M profit improvement with AI agents
  • Agent roles and specialization, communication patterns
  • Sequential vs parallel agent execution
  • Production vs prototype considerations
Hands-on Exercise

Content Creation System: Build a 2-agent system (researcher + writer) that collaborates to create content. Deploy locally and observe agent interactions.

Homework
  • Read LangGraph and CrewAI documentation
  • Explore 3 real-world multi-agent use cases
  • Set up Python development environment
  • Create GitHub account for course projects
Deliverable

Working 2-agent content creation system with state management

Learning Objectives
  • Compare and contrast LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen architectures
  • Understand when to choose each framework for production use cases
  • Implement the same workflow in all three frameworks
  • Evaluate framework trade-offs (learning curve, production readiness, community)
Key Topics
  • Graph-based workflows (LangGraph)
  • Role-based collaboration (CrewAI)
  • Conversation-driven agents (AutoGen)
  • State persistence patterns and framework maturity
Hands-on Exercise

Customer Support System: Build classifier → specialist → response generator in all three frameworks. Compare code complexity and execution patterns.

Homework
  • Complete framework comparison matrix
  • Deploy one implementation to Docker container
  • Research company tech stack compatibility
Deliverable

3 implementations of same system + comparison report

Learning Objectives
  • Design scalable architectures (centralized, decentralized, hierarchical)
  • Create system diagrams and architectural decision records (ADRs)
  • Understand CAP theorem implications for agent systems
  • Implement event-driven agent communication
Key Topics
  • Centralized orchestrator pattern
  • Decentralized peer-to-peer and hierarchical architectures
  • Event-driven (pub/sub) and hybrid patterns
  • Architecture failures and prevention
Hands-on Exercise

Customer Onboarding System: Design multi-agent system for automated customer onboarding (10+ agents). Create architecture diagram, identify bottlenecks, plan scaling strategy.

Homework
  • Write ADR for architecture choice
  • Create Mermaid diagram of system
  • Identify single points of failure
  • Research event bus technologies
Deliverable

Complete architecture design with ADR and diagrams

Module 2: Production Engineering (Sessions 4-9)

State management, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, security, and cost optimization

Implement stateful agents with persistent memory. Choose appropriate state storage (Redis, PostgreSQL, vector DBs). Handle state conflicts and race conditions. Design state recovery and rollback mechanisms.

Exercise: Build stateful customer service agent that remembers conversation history across sessions with state persistence, crash recovery, and audit logging.

Implement agent-to-agent communication protocols. Build tool integrations (APIs, databases, external services). Handle asynchronous communication. Design robust error handling with circuit breakers.

Exercise: Create e-commerce agent system integrating payment API, inventory DB, shipping API, email service, and analytics. Handle all failures gracefully.

Test non-deterministic LLM-based agents effectively. Implement LLM-as-judge evaluation patterns. Build regression test suites. Measure agent performance and quality metrics.

Exercise: Create comprehensive test suite with unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests, and LLM-based quality evaluation. Achieve 80%+ coverage.

Build CI/CD pipelines for agent deployments. Implement blue-green and canary strategies. Automate testing in deployment pipeline. Roll back failed deployments safely.

Exercise: Create GitHub Actions workflow: run tests → build Docker → deploy staging → smoke tests → production canary deployment.

Implement comprehensive monitoring. Set up distributed tracing across agents. Build real-time Grafana dashboards. Configure alerting and on-call procedures.

Exercise: Instrument multi-agent system with: request latency, token usage, error rates, cost per request. Create Grafana dashboard and PagerDuty alerts.

Understand prompt injection attack vectors (56% exploit rate). Implement layered defense strategies. Validate and sanitize inputs. Design security guardrails.

Exercise: Security audit: identify 10+ vulnerabilities in sample system, implement fixes, validate with penetration testing. Achieve <10% exploit success rate.

Module 3: Enterprise Integration & Scale (Sessions 10-14)

Cost management, enterprise systems, performance, deployment, and operations

Track and forecast LLM API costs. Implement optimization strategies (27-60% savings). Build cost dashboards and budget alerts. Design cost-aware agent architectures.

Exercise: Audit system costs, track API calls, implement caching to reduce by 40%+, set up budget alerts at $100/day threshold.

Integrate agents with enterprise systems (Salesforce, SAP, legacy DBs). Handle authentication and authorization at scale. Design data transformation pipelines. Ensure compliance (GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2).

Exercise: Build agent that reads from Salesforce, enriches with external API, writes to PostgreSQL, sends Slack notifications. Handle auth, errors, retries.

Profile and optimize agent performance (80% latency reduction). Implement horizontal scaling. Optimize token usage and API calls. Handle 1000+ concurrent requests.

Exercise: Profile system, identify top 3 bottlenecks, implement optimizations (parallel calls, caching, faster models), reduce latency by 50%+. Load test at 1000 req/min.

Deploy multi-agent systems to AWS/Azure/GCP. Implement auto-scaling and load balancing. Design disaster recovery and backup strategies. Handle multi-region deployments.

Exercise: Deploy to AWS: use ECS or Lambda, configure auto-scaling (2-10 instances), set up ALB, implement health checks and auto-recovery.

Design on-call and incident response procedures. Conduct blameless postmortems. Implement chaos engineering for resilience. Build production readiness checklists.

Exercise: Create production runbooks for common failures, on-call procedures, escalation paths. Conduct chaos experiment (kill random service).

Format

Student presentations (15 min each): system architecture overview, live demo, monitoring dashboard walkthrough, production readiness checklist, lessons learned, Q&A.

Capstone Requirements
  • Multi-agent system (3+ agents) solving real business problem
  • Deployed to cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
  • Full CI/CD pipeline with automated testing
  • Monitoring and alerting configured
  • Security audit completed (no critical vulnerabilities)
  • Cost tracking and optimization implemented
  • Documentation: architecture diagram, API docs, runbooks
  • Load tested (100+ req/min)
  • Incident response plan
Evaluation Criteria

Functionality (30%), Production Readiness (25%), Architecture (20%), Performance (10%), Presentation (10%), Documentation (5%)

Capstone: Enterprise-Grade Multi-Agent System

What You'll Build

Deploy a production-ready multi-agent system demonstrating enterprise-level engineering with monitoring, security, cost optimization, and scalability.

Example: Enterprise Customer Onboarding System
Technologies Integrated

Python, LangGraph/CrewAI, AWS/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Portfolio Value

Demonstrate production-grade engineering skills valued by enterprise employers. Showcase ability to design, deploy, monitor, and operate AI systems at scale. Perfect for landing Senior AI Engineer or Solutions Architect roles at companies like Klarna, Salesforce, or major consulting firms.

Complete Technology Stack

AI Frameworks
  • LangGraph (stateful orchestration)
  • CrewAI (role-based teams)
  • AutoGen (conversational agents)
Cloud Platforms
  • AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch)
  • Azure (Functions, SQL, Monitor)
  • GCP (Compute, Cloud Functions, SQL)
Infrastructure
  • Docker & Kubernetes (containers)
  • Terraform (infrastructure as code)
  • Redis (caching), PostgreSQL (persistence)
  • RabbitMQ/Kafka (message queues)
Observability
  • Prometheus (metrics)
  • Grafana (dashboards)
  • OpenTelemetry (tracing)
  • LangSmith/Langfuse (AI monitoring)

Your Instructor: Joshua Burdick

Production Engineering Credentials
  • 14 Years: Full-stack development and production engineering
  • Epic Games & Warner Bros: Built systems handling millions of concurrent users
  • Scale Expertise: Deployed distributed systems to AWS, Azure, GCP at enterprise scale
Why Joshua for This Course

Joshua has spent 14+ years building, deploying, and operating production systems at massive scale. At Epic Games, he worked on infrastructure that serves millions of Fortnite players globally. He's dealt with every challenge you'll face in this course: scaling issues, security vulnerabilities, cost overruns, production outages, and incident management. You'll learn battle-tested patterns from someone who's been in the trenches of production engineering at the highest levels.

Student Success Metrics

70-80%

Expected Completion Rate

1-2 weeks

Avg Time to Deploy Capstone

$1.41

ROI per $1 Invested

Career Outcomes
  • Job Placements: Senior AI Engineer, Solutions Architect, Technical Lead at Klarna, Salesforce, consulting firms
  • Salary Increases: $30K-60K boost for production AI engineering skills
  • Consulting Opportunities: Independent consultants helping enterprises deploy AI agents
  • Portfolio Impact: Production-deployed system with monitoring, security, and scale

Sample Code: Multi-Agent System with Monitoring

# Production Multi-Agent System with Observability (Session 8 Example)

from langgraph.graph import StateGraph
from opentelemetry import trace
from prometheus_client import Counter, Histogram
import structlog

logger = structlog.get_logger()
tracer = trace.get_tracer(__name__)

# Metrics
agent_calls = Counter('agent_calls_total', 'Total agent calls', ['agent_name'])
agent_latency = Histogram('agent_latency_seconds', 'Agent latency')

class MultiAgentSystem:
    def __init__(self):
        self.graph = StateGraph()
        self.setup_agents()

    @tracer.start_as_current_span("research_agent")
    def research_agent(self, state):
        """Research agent with observability"""
        agent_calls.labels(agent_name='research').inc()

        with agent_latency.time():
            logger.info("research_agent.started", state=state)
            # Agent logic here
            result = self.llm.invoke(state)
            logger.info("research_agent.completed", tokens=result.usage)

        return result

# Deploy with monitoring
if __name__ == "__main__":
    system = MultiAgentSystem()
    # Expose Prometheus metrics on :8000/metrics
    # Send traces to Jaeger
    # Log to structured JSON

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