December 2027
350 pages
1h 9m
English
Content preview from The Forward Deployed Engineer
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Brief Table of Contents (Not Yet Final)
Chapter 1 The Founder Inside Someone Else’s Company: What Forward Deployed Engineering Actually Is (available)
Chapter 2 The Deployment Stack: What You Actually Run in a Customer Environment (unavailable)
Chapter 3 Technical Discovery and Scoping: Writing the Spec for a Customer Who Cannot (available)
Chapter 4 Getting the Ground Ready: The Customer’s Data, Legacy Systems, and Migration (unavailable)
Chapter 5 Building Custom Agents and Workers for a Customer’s Problem (unavailable)
Chapter 6 Connecting Agents to a Customer’s Systems: SDKs, MCP, and CLIs (unavailable)
Chapter 7 Grounding Agents in the Customer’s Knowledge: Retrieval and Context (unavailable)
Chapter 8 Taking an Agent to Production: Trust, Guardrails, and Blast Radius (unavailable)
Chapter 9 Security, Compliance, and the Constraints That Decide Whether You Ship (unavailable)
Chapter 10 Measuring and Proving It Works (unavailable)
Chapter 11 The FDE Career Path: Pivoting In and Moving Up (unavailable)
Chapter 12 The AI-Augmented Senior Engineer: The Operating Model Goes In-House (unavailable)
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