Learn to build and deploy production-ready AI agents in this 41-minute conference talk from MLOps World. Explore the essential infrastructure and software components required for full-stack agentic applications, including hosting your own LLMs, MCP servers, vector stores, frontend UIs, and evaluation harnesses. Discover when to consider building custom AI agents versus using existing tools, and understand the complete lifecycle from loading and caching open weights models to implementing robust evaluation systems. Get practical insights into orchestrating agentic applications through real demonstrations, covering everything from initial development to reliable production deployment for various use cases including customer service and scientific research applications.