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Production Runtimes: Queue, Event, Cron

Production agents run on six runtime shapes: request-response, streaming, durable execution, queue-based background, event-driven, and scheduled. Pick the shape before you pick the framework. Observability is load-bearing at every shape.

In this lesson

  1. 01Learning Objectives
  2. 02The Problem
  3. 03The Concept
  4. 04Build it
  5. 05Use it
  6. 06Exercises
  7. 07Key Terms
  8. 08Further Reading

About 900 words of reading, with code, 7 quiz questions and the tutor.

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You can see what this lesson covers and the milestone it sets. The full text, code, quizzes, the tutor and the AI reviews come with the K850 practice, along with weekly build sessions and code review.

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Milestone forAn observable back-office agent

Run it for a month

Deploy the agent with a job queue, idempotent actions, an approval queue a finance officer can use from a phone, budgets and a kill switch. Replay a full month of statements.

Done when

  • Idempotent actions proven by replaying the same line twice
  • An approval queue a finance officer can use from a phone
  • A kill switch and a daily ZMW budget
  • A full month replayed with a summary of matched, escalated and failed lines

Stretch: Run it on a schedule and send the summary on WhatsApp

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Interview practice

Questions on this topic that AI engineering interviews ask, with the companies reported to ask them. Answer the way you would out loud; Jev scores it and DeepSeek tells you what to add.

Scoring opens with an access code. You can still read the questions and prepare.

Adapted from open-source work: AI Engineering from Scratch by Rohit Ghumare (MIT, lesson text, code and quizzes); Awesome LLM Apps by Shubham Saboo (Apache-2.0, starter code); AI Engineering Interview Questions by Outcome School (Apache-2.0, interview questions). Capstones, milestones, data packs and Zambian context by Zambrite.

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