Ollama in Action: A Practical Guide to Building Smart AI Applications with Python and Local Open LLMs - Hardcover

Chapman, Leon

Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9798284493700

Verlag: Independently published, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Running large language models locally was once reserved for cutting-edge labs or tech giants. Today, with Ollama, developers can serve and interact with powerful open-source LLMs entirely offline—securely, efficiently, and privately. When paired with LangChain’s flexible framework for chaining, tool use, memory, and retrieval, developers can now create intelligent, agentic AI applications that are fully customized, scalable, and production-ready, without relying on cloud services or external APIs.

Summary of the Book
This book is a complete, hands-on guide to building real-world AI applications using Ollama and LangChain. It walks you through creating smart local assistants, private document summarizers, autonomous file agents, and domain-specific chatbots—all running securely on your machine. It covers everything from model integration and prompt engineering to memory management, tool building, deployment, and optimization, providing you with a structured, practical path from zero to fully operational local AI systems.

What's Inside:

• Setting up Ollama and running open LLMs locally
• Building LangChain-based chains, memory systems, and agent workflows
• Integrating powerful tools like file readers, calculators, and API wrappers
• Creating a Local Dev Copilot, a Private PDF Summarizer, an Autonomous File Agent, and a Domain-Specific Chat Assistant
• Dockerizing and optimizing your application for performance and security
• Real-world project architectures and complete code examples
• Production hardening: rate limiting, prompt validation, and API security
• Iterative strategies for expanding and scaling your AI systems effectively

About the Reader
This book is written for developers, AI engineers, and technical builders who want to create private, production-ready AI applications without relying on cloud APIs. It is ideal for anyone serious about understanding not just how to prompt a model—but how to design, secure, and deploy intelligent agents and assistants that solve real problems in real environments.

Get your copy today to create smart, secure, production-ready AI applications with Ollama and LangChain, and stay ahead in the new era of local, intelligent automation.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798284493700
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 261
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