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1. Introduction to Spring AI

  • Creating and configuring projects
  • The function of prompts and prompt submission
  • Authoring the first test
  • Selecting a model
  • Configuring the model
  • An overview of Spring AI features

2. Analyzing responses

  • Verifying the relevance of answers
  • Ensuring accuracy during runtime

3. Prompts in detail

  • Utilizing prompt templates
  • Creating a new prompt template
  • Comprehending context
  • Understanding the role and its significance
  • Guiding response generation through options
  • Streaming and formatting output
  • Examining response metadata

4. Utilizing your data and documents

  • Comprehending RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
  • Configuring the vector store and ingesting documents
  • Implementing a basic RAG solution
  • Implementing RAG with an advisor
  • Modular RAG features

5. The role of memory in AI

  • The necessity of memory
  • Implementing and configuring memory for conversations
  • Managing conversation IDs
  • Enabling persistent memory
  • Storing chat history in a vector store

6. AI Tools

  • Enabling tools in an application
  • Understanding tool capabilities
  • Developing and deploying tools
  • Using functions as tools

7. The Model Context Protocol (MCP)

  • The purpose of MCP
  • Interacting with an MCP Client
  • Developing an MCP Server
  • Database and tool integration for the MCP Server
  • Understanding HTTP and SSE (Server-Sent Events) transport
  • Exposing prompts and resources

8. Operational monitoring

  • Activating actuator metrics
  • Reviewing vector store operations
  • Analyzing model interactions
  • Token counting
  • Implementing Prometheus and building dashboards
  • Tracing AI operations

9. Safeguards in generative AI

  • Managing document access via RAG
  • Securing tools
  • Mitigating adversarial prompting
  • Moderating user input

10. Standard generative patterns

  • Content summarization
  • Message translation
  • Sentiment analysis

11. The role of Agents

  • Defining an agent
  • Developing agentic workflows
  • Chaining prompts, task routing, and parallelization
  • Accessing agents via MCP

Requirements

Learners are expected to have the following background:

  • A solid grasp of Java programming
  • Practical experience with Spring and Spring Boot
  • Familiarity with the setup and configuration of Spring Boot applications
  • A foundational understanding of REST APIs and HTTP
  • A basic comprehension of JSON and application configuration
  • A fundamental understanding of generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Knowledge of databases and data access concepts is advised
  • No prior experience with Spring AI, RAG, MCP, or AI agents is necessary
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