Context Engineering for LLMs Applications: Designing prompts, memory, retrieval and context pipelines for reliable, cost-effective LLM applications: 3 - Brossura

Zhang, Carter

Brossura

ISBN 13: 9798265876911

Casa editrice: Independently published, 2025

Riassunto

Context Engineering for LLMs is the operational handbook for anyone who wants LLMs to behave predictably, efficiently, and responsibly in production. The book reframes prompt engineering as a systems discipline context pipelines that include chunking, compression, vectorization, retrieval orchestration, and memory layers. You’ll learn token-economics for large context windows, practical prompt architectures, system and user message patterns, and templates for common tasks.
The middle sections cover embedding strategies, vector-store patterns, and RAG designs that ensure relevance, freshness, and cost control. Memory system chapters describe how to design short-term and long-term memory, when to use episodic memory, and how to index and expire context. Security and reliability are core themes: learn prompt injection defenses, context validation, and audit trails. The book closes with evaluation, A/B testing, CI pipelines for prompt changes, and operational patterns for continuous improvement.
What’s inside:

• Practical prompt templates and system-message strategies for structured outputs.
• Token cost modeling and context-window optimization techniques.
• Chunking, semantic compression, and fragment re-assembly recipes.
• Embedding strategies, batching, and hybrid index maintenance.
• Memory architectures: ephemeral, episodic, and persistent memory designs.
• RAG workflows and retrieval orchestration best practices.
• Prompt-injection defenses, content filtering, and context validation checks.
• Evaluation frameworks, metrics, and test suites for context quality.
• CI/CD for prompts and context pipelines, plus A/B testing patterns.
• Operational playbooks for latency, scaling, and cost tradeoffs.

Who this book is for:

• Prompt engineers, ML engineers, SREs, and product teams shipping LLM features.
• Teams that require predictable, auditable, and cost-effective LLM behavior.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Independently published
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 13: 9798265876911
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 210
• Contatto del produttore: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.it/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Lussemburgo