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References: Capstone Projects and Continuous Practice

  1. Capstone course - Wikipedia - Background on integrative culminating projects in professional education; frames the pedagogical purpose of the capstone variants offered in this chapter.

  2. Continuous improvement process - Wikipedia - Coverage of Kaizen, PDCA, and other continuous-improvement frameworks that this chapter applies to ongoing token-cost optimization.

  3. DevOps - Wikipedia - The cultural and tooling movement behind continuous delivery; informs the continuous-cost-monitoring posture this chapter recommends.

  4. AI Engineering - Chip Huyen - O'Reilly - The capstone-style end-to-end deployment and monitoring chapters parallel the integrative scope of this textbook's capstone projects.

  5. Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps - Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim - IT Revolution - The empirical research behind continuous-improvement practices and the four key metrics; useful framing for the engineering-management deliverables in the capstone.

  6. Google SRE Workbook - Google - The companion to the SRE book with practical chapters on SLO design, error budgets, and postmortem culture that map directly to the cost-budget framing of the capstone.

  7. The Twelve-Factor App - Adam Wiggins - The classic checklist for building cloud-native applications; the logging and configuration factors directly inform the capstone's instrumentation design.

  8. Anthropic: Building Effective Agents - Anthropic Engineering - The reference essay on production agent design including budget and observability recommendations applicable to the autonomous-coding-harness capstone variant.

  9. LangSmith Documentation - LangChain - Reference for the production-observability platform that supports the cost-attribution and trace-analysis deliverables of the capstone project.

  10. LangFuse Documentation - LangFuse - Open-source alternative to LangSmith for LLM observability and cost tracking; relevant for engineers whose capstone runs in a self-hosted environment.