Apache Spark™ Programming with Databricks

This is your introduction to contextual generative AI solutions using the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) method. First, you’ll be introduced to RAG architecture and the significance of contextual information using Mosaic AI Playground. Next, we’ll show you how to prepare data for generative AI solutions and connect this process with building a RAG architecture. Finally, you’ll explore concepts related to context embedding, vectors, vector databases, and the utilization of Mosaic AI Vector Search.

Languages Available: English | 日本語 | Português BR | 한국어

This course is aimed at data scientists, machine learning engineers, and other data practitioners who want to build generative AI applications using the latest and most popular frameworks and Databricks capabilities. 

Below, we describe each of the four, four-hour modules included in this course.

Generative AI Solution Development: This is your introduction to contextual generative AI solutions using the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) method. First, you’ll be introduced to RAG architecture and the significance of contextual information using Mosaic AI Playground. Next, we’ll show you how to prepare data for generative AI solutions and connect this process with building a RAG architecture. Finally, you’ll explore concepts related to context embedding, vectors, vector databases, and the utilization of Mosaic AI Vector Search.

Generative AI Application Development: Ready for information and practical experience in building advanced LLM applications using multi-stage reasoning LLM chains and agents? In this module, you'll first learn how to decompose a problem into its components and select the most suitable model for each step to enhance business use cases. Following this, we’ll show you how to construct a multi-stage reasoning chain utilizing LangChain and HuggingFace transformers. Finally, you’ll be introduced to agents and will design an autonomous agent using generative models on Databricks.

Generative AI Application Evaluation and Governance: This is your introduction to evaluating and governing generative AI systems. First, you’ll explore the meaning behind and motivation for building evaluation and governance/security systems. Next, we’ll connect evaluation and governance systems to the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Third, we’ll teach you about a variety of evaluation techniques for specific components and types of applications. Finally, the course will conclude with an analysis of evaluating entire AI systems with respect to performance and cost.

Generative AI Application Deployment and Monitoring: Ready to learn how to deploy, operationalize, and monitor generative deploying, operationalizing, and monitoring generative AI applications? This module will help you gain skills in the deployment of generative AI applications using tools like Model Serving. We’ll also cover how to operationalize generative AI applications following best practices and recommended architectures. Finally, we’ll discuss the idea of monitoring generative AI applications and their components using Lakehouse Monitoring.

In this course, you will learn the best practices for managing machine learning experiments and models with MLflow. There are two main components in this course: (i) using MLflow to track the machine learning lifecycle, package models for deployment, and manage model versions (ii) examining various production issues, different deployment paradigms, and post-production concerns. By the end of this course, you will have built an end-to-end pipeline to log, deploy, and monitor machine learning models.