Welcome to our course on developing LLM-powered applications using LangChain! Throughout this programme, you’ll delve into the intricacies of LangChain, gaining a comprehensive understanding of its components and applications.

The journey begins with foundational knowledge, ensuring you’re well-prepared to dive into the world of LangChain. You’ll explore the basics, including chains, callbacks, memory management, and OpenAI function calling, laying the groundwork for more advanced concepts.

As you progress, you’ll unravel the power of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), tapping into its capabilities to enhance your applications’ performance. Delve deeper into the intricacies of agents and the Indexing API, empowering you to create more sophisticated and efficient solutions.

LangSmith will be a focal point, offering insights into its functionalities and how it complements LangChain applications. You’ll also explore the intricacies of microservice architecture tailored for LLM applications, gaining valuable insights into optimising performance and scalability.

Finally, you’ll master the LangChain Expression Language (LCEL), unlocking the ability to express complex operations and logic within your applications efficiently.

By the end of this course, you’ll possess a robust understanding of LangChain and its applications, equipped with the knowledge to develop sophisticated LLM-powered solutions effectively. Let’s embark on this journey together and unlock the full potential of LangChain!

Your Benefits by Learning with ‘Cambridge Open Academy’:

  • Accreditation: Showcase your ability with our accredited LangChain in Action: Develop LLM-Powered Applications to potential employers.
  • Free Certificate: Get a Free Digital Certificate upon successful completion of the LangChain in Action: Develop LLM-Powered Applications.
  • Flexibility: Learn virtually from anywhere, anytime at your own pace and convenience.
  • Advance Your Career: Upskill to impress your employers and land your dream job or long-awaited promotion.
  • Immediately Applicable Coursework: Keep up with the latest skill trend by putting your skillsets to work.
  • Affordability: Save big with our online LangChain in Action: Develop LLM-Powered Applications as it not only suits your professional needs but also fits within your budget.
  • Tutor Support: Get tutor support on weekdays, 9-5 am, and our dedicated 24/7 customer support.
  • Lifetime Access: Achieve lifetime access to the top-notch expertly crafted course materials.

Our Specialised Delivery Method:

  • Interactive Learning Materials: The course modules were created using an EdTech industry-recognised tool to keep you engaged at all times. With this tool, you get interactive, engaging and top-notch course content. In our courses, you can take advantage of features like—
    • Drop Down Menu
    • Drag and Drop
    • Flash Card
    • Label Graphic
    • Timeline View
  • Responsiveness: In light of contemporary mobile and point-of-need learning trends, our courses are designed to be intrinsically dynamic and provide you the ultimate eLearning solution. These courses will adapt to any gadget without any extra software.
  • Learner-Friendly Navigation: Our courses are also quite simple to navigate for any learner. These courses are designed with simplicity and a modern flow that appeals to a wide range of learning audiences, regardless of their technical background and gadgets.
  • Elegant Outline: Our courses are visually appealing, where you can —
    • Track your progress on the left-side navigation toolbar.
    • Engage in drag-and-drop sorting activities and use the multiple response question to test your understanding of course topics.

With your newly acquired skills from this course can help you

  • Increase Your Hireability.
  • Make Yourself a Valuable Asset
  • Get Your Long-awaited Promotion.
  • Boost Your Pay-scale
  • Better Your Productivity

Certification:

Once you have successfully completed the LangChain in Action: Develop LLM-Powered Applications course, you will receive a PDF certificate completely free of cost as a proof of your accomplishment. The hardcopy certificate is also available for the cost of £9.99. UK students are required to pay a £10 as a delivery fee, while international students have to pay £19.99 for the shipment of a hardcopy certificate to their designated address.

Who is this course for?

This LangChain in Action: Develop LLM-Powered Applications course is developed for people who wish to excel in their professional and personal life. Learn from industry leaders and interact with a global network of experts by enrolling in this LangChain in Action: Develop LLM-Powered Applications course.

Requirements

Enrolling in our LangChain in Action: Develop LLM-Powered Applications course does not require any prior knowledge or experience. All that is required is an internet-connected gadget and a passion to learn.

Career Path

Participants in the LangChain in Action: Develop LLM-Powered Applications course are revolutionizing the professional landscape, propelling their careers forward, and enhancing their livelihoods across the globe. This sought-after course is empowering learners to forge new employment opportunities, advance within their respective industries, and experience substantial personal growth.

Why this course is different 00:01:00
Prerequisites 00:01:00
Why this course does not cover Open Source models like LLama2 00:01:00
Optional: Install Visual Studio Code 00:02:00
Get the source files with Git from Github 00:02:00
Create OpenAI Account and create API Key 00:02:00
Setup of a virtual environment 00:03:00
Setup OpenAI Api-Key as environment variable 00:03:00
Exploring the vanilla OpenAI package 00:03:00
LLM Basics 00:07:00
Prompting Basics 00:02:00
Theory: Prompt Engineering Basics 00:02:00
Few Shot Prompting 00:05:00
Chain of thought prompting 00:02:00
Pipeline-Prompts 00:04:00
Prompt Serialisation 00:03:00
Introduction to chains 00:01:00
Basic chains – the LLMChain 00:03:00
Response Schemas and OutputParsers 00:06:00
LLMChain with multiple inputs 00:02:00
SequentialChains 00:04:00
RouterChains 00:04:00
Callbacks 00:05:00
Memory basics – ConversationBufferMemory 00:04:00
ConversationSummaryMemory 00:03:00
EXERCISE: Use Memory to build a streamlit Chatbot 00:01:00
SOLUTION: Chatbot with Streamlit 00:03:00
OpenAI Function Calling – Vanilla OpenAI Package 00:08:00
Function Calling with LangChain 00:04:00
Limits and issues of the langchain Implementation 00:03:00
RAG – Theory and building blocks 00:03:00
Loaders and Splitters 00:04:00
Embeddings – Theory and practice 00:04:00
VectorStores and Retrievers 00:07:00
RAG Service with FastAPI 00:05:00
Agents Basics – LLMs learn to use tools 00:06:00
Agents with a custom RAG-Tool 00:07:00
ChatAgents 00:03:00
Indexing API – keep your documents in sync 00:02:00
PREREQUISITE: Docker Installation 00:01:00
Setup of PgVector and RecordManager 00:04:00
Indexing Documents in practice 00:06:00
Document Retrieval with PgVector 00:03:00
Introduction to LangSmith (User Interface and Hub) 00:02:00
LangSmith Projects 00:07:00
LangSmith Datasets and Evaluation 00:13:00
Introduction to Microservice Architecture 00:04:00
How our Chatbot works in a Microservice Architecture 00:02:00
Introduction to Docker 00:05:00
Introduction to Kubernetes 00:02:00
Deployment of the LLM Microservices to Kubernetes 00:13:00
Intro to LangChain Expression Language 00:01:00
LCEL Part 1 – Pipes and OpenAI Function Calling 00:07:00
LCEL – Part 2 – VectorStores, ItemGetter, Tools 00:06:00
LCEL – Part 3 – Arbitrary Functions, Runnable Interface, Fallbacks 00:07:00

Certification:​

Once you have successfully completed this course, you will receive a PDF certificate as a proof of your accomplishment. The hardcopy certificate is also available for the cost of £9.99.
Note: Delivery of hardcopy certificate is free within the United Kingdom. However, to obtain a hardcopy certificate, International students will have to pay additional fees based on their location.

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