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Course Outline

Introduction to LLMOps

  • LLMOps vs MLOps: Understanding the unique challenges of operating LLMs
  • The LLM application lifecycle: prompting, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
  • Production readiness checklist for GenAI applications

Prompt Management and Versioning

  • Prompt templating systems and variable injection techniques
  • Semantic versioning for prompts combined with automated regression testing
  • Prompt registries and collaboration workflows

LLM Evaluation at Scale

  • Evaluation dimensions: accuracy, relevance, safety, and groundedness
  • LLM-as-a-judge metrics and human evaluation pipelines
  • Automated evaluation frameworks: RAGAS, DeepEval, and custom evaluators
  • Integrating quality gates into CI/CD for LLM deployments

Safety Guardrails and Content Governance

  • Input and output guardrails: utilizing NeMo Guardrails and Guardrails AI
  • PII detection, toxicity filtering, and enforcing topic boundaries
  • Strategies for defending against jailbreaks and prompt injection
  • Conducting red-teaming exercises for LLM applications to ensure safety assurance

LLM Observability and Monitoring

  • Telemetry metrics: token usage, latency, cost, and quality indicators
  • Detected drift in LLM outputs and embedding spaces
  • Session-level tracing for multi-turn agent conversations
  • Dashboards and alerting systems using LangSmith, Arize, and OpenTelemetry

AI Gateway and Model Orchestration

  • Multi-provider routing using LiteLLM and Portkey
  • Fallback strategies, retry logic, and circuit breaker patterns
  • Cost-aware model selection and load balancing techniques
  • Rate limiting, quota management, and API key governance

Performance Optimization

  • Semantic caching utilizing vector stores and exact-match strategies
  • Enforcing structured outputs through constrained decoding
  • Batching, streaming, and concurrency patterns
  • Optimizing latency across various model providers

Governance, Compliance, and Audit

  • LLM audit trails: maintaining prompt logs, response logs, and decision provenance
  • Data residency and privacy considerations for LLM APIs
  • Implementing policy-as-code for LLM usage within organizations
  • Developing an internal playbook for LLM operations

Requirements

  • Experience in building or integrating LLM-powered applications.
  • Familiarity with Python and REST APIs.
  • Basic understanding of prompt engineering concepts.

Audience

  • ML engineers and MLOps practitioners transitioning into LLM operations.
  • Platform engineers responsible for LLM infrastructure.
  • Technical leads managing production GenAI deployments.
 14 Hours

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