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Chroma, Weaviate & Production RAG Deployment equips developers and ML engineers with end‑to‑end skills to deploy and manage vector databases for advanced search and retrieval‑augmented generation. You’ll start by launching a local Chroma instance via its Python SDK, configuring collections and ingesting thousands of documents. You’ll build automated pipelines that link embedding models (OpenAI, HuggingFace) to Chroma and troubleshoot dimension mismatches. Next, you’ll design a RAG pipeline with Chroma and LangChain to ground LLM responses in verifiable data and assess its impact. Through courses on Weaviate you’ll model complex data with multi‑class schemas, import interconnected objects, benchmark query latency and write semantic, vector and hybrid queries. You’ll spin up Weaviate with Docker Compose, define a schema and perform your first semantic search. Additional modules teach you to build a semantic search API with Chroma and Flask, manage metadata and multi‑collections via an ETL pipeline, and implement advanced RAG patterns (Corrective, Self‑RAG and Agentic). You’ll enable Weaviate’s automatic vectorization and evaluate the tradeoffs, tune index parameters to reduce latency and script migrations from Chroma to Weaviate, and deploy vector databases securely with TLS, RBAC and Grafana monitoring. By the end you’ll be ready to build, tune and maintain production‑ready vector search and RAG systems.
Syllabus
- Course 1: Deploy Vector DBs Securely
- Course 2: Manage Data in Chroma
- Course 3: Advanced RAG Patterns
- Course 4: Boost RAG with Chroma
- Course 5: Enable Vectorization in Weaviate
- Course 6: Optimize and Migrate Vectors
- Course 7: Launch Chroma Fast
- Course 8: Model Data in Weaviate
- Course 9: Integrate Embeddings and Chroma
- Course 10: Spin Up Weaviate
Courses
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Advance RAG Patterns is an intermediate course designed for AI developers and ML engineers who have built a basic RAG pipeline but find it still fails on complex or nuanced queries. While foundational RAG reduces hallucinations, production-grade AI demands greater reliability, accuracy, and reasoning. This 2-hour course moves beyond the basics to teach you how to engineer robust, intelligent, and self-correcting systems. Focused on practical, job-ready skills, this course dives deep into cutting-edge architecture. You will learn to implement and evaluate a suite of advanced patterns, including Corrective RAG for query rewriting, Self-RAG for source validation, and Agentic RAG for multi-hop problem-solving. Through hands-on, in-browser projects, you will A/B test these different architectures, analyze their performance against key metrics, analyze different embedding services, and make data-driven decisions on improving accuracy. By the end, you'll be able to not just build, but architect and defend production-ready RAG systems that are both powerful and trustworthy.
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"Deploy Vector DBs Securely" is an intermediate course for developers and ML engineers who are ready to move their AI applications from a local machine to a production environment. Knowing how to use a vector database is one thing; deploying it securely and reliably is the critical next step. This two-hour, hands-on course provides the essential last-mile skills needed for production readiness. Focused entirely on real-world job tasks, you will learn to lock down your data pipeline. You'll containerize a vector database like Chroma or Weaviate using Docker, push it to a registry, and secure it with TLS encryption and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). You will then master the operational side by setting up Grafana dashboards to monitor cluster health and analyzing performance data to configure autoscaling policies. By the end, you will have the confidence to deploy, manage, and scale vector databases in line with enterprise-grade best practices.
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Optimize and Migrate Vectors is an intermediate course for Machine Learning engineers and developers looking to master the operational side of vector databases. In the world of Vector-Ops, building a functional application is only the baseline; the real challenge lies in maintaining sub-millisecond latency and infrastructure agility as data scales. This 90-minute, hands-on course tackles two critical job tasks: performance tuning and platform migration. The course requires Python skills, vector database concepts, and API/command-line experience. Docker Desktop with 8GB+ RAM must be installed on your system. This course is focused on real-world execution. You will learn to diagnose performance bottlenecks and tune vector index parameters to cut query latency by up to 40%. Next, you will learn how to architect and execute a full-scale data migration, scripting the transfer of over 100,000 vectors from a Chroma database to Weaviate in batches while ensuring zero data loss. By the end, you will possess the operational expertise to optimize, scale, and migrate vector infrastructure in enterprise AI environments.
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Spin Up Weaviate is an intermediate, hands-on course for developers and ML engineers who need to get a modern vector database running fast. If you're ready to move from theory to practice, this course provides a direct, step-by-step path to deploying, configuring, populating, and querying Weaviate, one of the most popular open-source vector databases available today. Forget high-level concepts; this course is about execution. You will learn how to use Docker Compose to launch a Weaviate instance locally, define a data schema using its API, and ingest data objects for semantic search. Through a series of practical and guided screencasts and a final, real-world project, you will configure a live database, load it with a dataset of 1,000 articles, and perform your first vector search query using GraphQL APIs to run similarity-based vector search queries. By the end of this 2-hour session, you will have the confidence and skill to deploy and interact with a vector database environment for your own AI applications.
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