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Building Agentic Solutions with Microsoft Foundry
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Building Agentic Solutions with Microsoft Foundry

by Colby T. Ford
September 2026
Intermediate to advanced
260 pages
5h 50m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Preface

Hello and welcome to Building Agentic Solutions with Microsoft Foundry! The goal of this book is to help you understand how to deliver AI-enabled experiences using Microsoft Foundry, a powerful platform for creating intelligent agents and applications. Whether you’re a developer, data scientist, AI engineer, or cloud architect, this book will provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to leverage Foundry’s capabilities effectively.

Who Should Read This Book

This book is intended for anyone interested in building cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for your organization. This book was written for data scientists and AI engineers who have experience working with large language models (LLMs) and want to learn how to build agentic solutions in a cloud-based environment, specifically Microsoft Foundry. However, there is plenty of content in this book that will also be valuable for cloud engineers looking to get a better understanding of how cloud architecture should work for deploying and managing AI models and agents at an enterprise level. This book is not intended to teach you how to build and train AI models from scratch or to train your own models. Instead, it focuses on how to deploy and manage both open source and proprietary foundation models at scale.

It seems like a million new AI models become available every week, and it can be overwhelming to keep up with all the new developments. This book will also help you understand how to evaluate various ...

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