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.
Free preview
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
Write a review- Marta KowalskaAug 2026
Finally a RAG course that covers evaluation and cost, not just the happy-path demo.