LLMOps: Building Production-Ready LLM Systems

Learn LLMOps end-to-end by building a real LLM application. You’ll test it, secure it, and iterate on it over time so it stays reliable, safe, and performant in production.

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Learn LLMOps end-to-end by building a real LLM application. You’ll test it, secure it, and iterate on it over time so it stays reliable, safe, and performant in production.

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Course Overview

LLMOps is the practice of keeping an LLM application reliable under production traffic, within cost limits, and in the face of security threats. In this course, you’ll learn LLMOps by building and operating an application from the ground up with production constraints in mind. You’ll begin with the shift from classical ML to foundation models and the constraints that drove LLMOps: stochastic outputs, high inference costs, and new operational artifacts like prompts and vector indexes. You’ll apply the 4D LL...Show More

What You'll Learn

A clear understanding of what LLMOps means and how it is different from MLOps when working with large language models

Hands-on practice building an LLM app architecture with separate ingestion and inference pipelines

Strong skills in RAG, including chunking text, creating embeddings, storing vectors, and checking results with a golden dataset

The ability to manage prompts as versioned system artifacts, enforce strict output formats, and reduce prompt injection risk through structured prompting patterns

Working knowledge of LLM evaluation, including LLM-as-a-judge scoring, repeatable tests, and using human feedback to improve answers

Hands-on experience in production hardening, including OWASP-aligned security controls, deployment using containerization, and capacity planning for cost and latency

What You'll Learn

A clear understanding of what LLMOps means and how it is different from MLOps when working with large language models

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Course Content

1.

The Evolution of Modern AI Systems

Establish the theoretical and historical groundwork for LLMOps, defining why the discipline exists and how it diverges from traditional MLOps.
2.

LLMOps Core Concepts

Define the course’s structural frameworks, introducing the 4D life cycle for process management and a reference architecture for building scalable RAG apps.
3.

Phase 1: Discover and Data Engineering

Execute the discovery phase by scoping the course project and building data engineering pipelines to transform raw data into retrieval-ready assets.
4.

Phase 2: Distill and The Core Engine

Execute the distill phase by constructing the core RAG components for retrieval and generation. Explore how to implement automated evaluation gates.
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Phase 3: Deploy and Hardening

Execute the deploy phase by hardening the prototype into a production service, focusing on security, infrastructure sizing, and retrieval optimization.
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Phase 4: Deliver and Evolution

3 Lessons

Execute the deliver phase by adding conversational state, implementing feedback loops for continuous improvement, and exploring the future of AI agents.

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