Topic 12 of 16 in the learning path

AI System Design & Architecture

Designing end-to-end AI systems and answering system-design interviews.

Reels and posts (3)

• Visualizing an LLM OCR Pipeline with Apache Camel's Topology Command · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas shows that Apache Camel has a topology command that shows how the parts of an integration workflow connect.
• Apache Camel as a foundation for enterprise AI workflow recipes · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator is evaluating Apache Camel as the base for reusable, pluggable AI workflow 'recipes' in his enterprise AI practice.
• AIBackends: An API Layer Between Your App and AI Models (Now with Jev) · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator's open-source AIBackends API server now supports TypeSafe AI's Jev model.

Read and use (6)

• AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models (Chip Huyen) · book · github.com · paid
  Essential for AI engineers, even if some topics may not cover the newest tools. Good to know for ML engineers who want to build products with their models.
  Mentioned in: 5 Books to Move from Software Engineer to AI/ML Engineer (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap Before 2027: Fundamentals, RAG, Agents, Ops, Evals (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap: Fundamentals, RAG, Agents, Books & Your First AI Service (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
  In a shared PDF: 5 books to upgrade from software engineer into Ai/ML engineer - shared in this reel on Facebook
• Apache Camel · tool · camel.apache.org · free
  Open-source Java integration framework for building routes that connect endpoints, processors and services, including LLM calls.
  Mentioned in: Visualizing an LLM OCR Pipeline with Apache Camel's Topology Command (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), n8n vs Apache Camel for enterprise AI workflows (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Deploying AI workflow integrations with Apache Camel in Docker (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Apache Camel as a foundation for enterprise AI workflow recipes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Apache Camel (@ApacheCamel) on X · website · x.com · free
  The official X account for Apache Camel, an open-source Java framework for enterprise integration and routing.
  Mentioned in: CamelFlow: open-source visual viewer for Apache Camel routes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Visualizing an LLM OCR Pipeline with Apache Camel's Topology Command (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), n8n vs Apache Camel for enterprise AI workflows (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Deploying AI workflow integrations with Apache Camel in Docker (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Chip Huyen · person · huyenchip.com · free
  An author of widely read books on AI engineering and ML systems design (for example, AI Engineering and Designing Machine Learning Systems).
  Mentioned in: 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Kaoto · tool · kaoto.io · free
  Open-source visual low-code designer for Apache Camel integrations.
  Mentioned in: Visualizing an LLM OCR Pipeline with Apache Camel's Topology Command (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Red Hat build of Apache Camel · tool · developers.redhat.com · paid · open in a browser to verify
  Red Hat's commercially supported distribution of Apache Camel.
  Mentioned in: Apache Camel as a foundation for enterprise AI workflow recipes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)

Build

• Build a receipt OCR pipeline with Apache Camel: read images from a folder, send them to an LLM for OCR and JSON extraction, and save the results to a database. (from Visualizing an LLM OCR Pipeline with Apache Camel's Topology Command)
• Build a library of reusable, pluggable AI workflow recipes on Apache Camel (from Apache Camel as a foundation for enterprise AI workflow recipes)