Data & AI EngineeringIntermediate

LLM Engineering: Build Production RAG Applications

Retrieval-augmented generation from first principles to production: embeddings, vector stores, evaluation, and cost control.

5.0(1 review)1 student
ACreated byAdaeze Okonkwo
~25h total6 lessonsIntermediateEnglish

What you'll learn

  • RAG Foundations
  • Shipping & Evaluating

Requirements

  • Comfortable with computing fundamentals
  • each section states its own assumptions.

Description

Retrieval-augmented generation from first principles to production: embeddings, vector stores, evaluation, and cost control.

Every section is mapped to concrete outcomes, with a knowledge check per section and a hands-on project brief.

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Why RAG beats fine-tuning for most products

Topics covered

Data & AI EngineeringIntermediate

Curriculum

2 sections · 6 lessons · 59m

01RAG Foundations3 lessons
  • Why RAG beats fine-tuning for most productsFree preview8m
  • Embeddings and chunking strategies that work10m
  • Vector stores: pgvector, and when you need more11m
  • RAG Foundations — knowledge checkquiz
02Shipping & Evaluating3 lessons
  • Grounded generation: prompts, citations, guardrails13m
  • Evaluation harnesses: faithfulness and recall8m
  • Latency and cost engineering in production10m
  • Shipping & Evaluating — knowledge checkquiz

Reviews5.0 · 1

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  • Marta KowalskaAug 2026

    Finally a RAG course that covers evaluation and cost, not just the happy-path demo.