Frameworks Landscape: LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, Assistants API

What each orchestration framework abstracts, what it hides, and how to reason about framework-vs-roll-your-own in a system-design interview

A trade-off-first tour of the LLM application framework landscape — LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel and hosted Assistants-API-style platforms — organised around what each abstraction gives you, what it hides, and when the honest answer is to roll your own thin orchestration instead.

Practice questions (5)

• From Hackathon Framework to Production Architecture

  Intermediate · Free
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• CrewAI or AutoGen: Choosing a Multi-Agent Coordination Model

  Intermediate
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• Should We Build on a Hosted Assistants Platform?

  Intermediate
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• Justifying a Framework Choice on Organizational, Not Technical, Grounds

  Intermediate
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• Reasoning About a Framework You've Never Used

  Intermediate
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Quizzes (1)