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1. Introduction to Spring AI

  • Creating and configuring projects
  • The function of prompts and their submission
  • Developing initial tests
  • Selecting a model
  • Configuring the model
  • Overview of Spring AI features

2. Interpreting responses

  • Verifying the relevance of answers
  • Assessing runtime accuracy

3. Deep dive into prompts

  • Utilizing prompt templates
  • Creating new prompt templates
  • Grasping context
  • Understanding roles and their significance
  • Guiding response generation through options
  • Streaming and output formatting
  • Response metadata

4. Leveraging your data and documents

  • Comprehending RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
  • Configuring vector stores and ingesting documents
  • Implementing an initial RAG solution
  • Implementing RAG with an advisor
  • Modular RAG functionalities

5. The significance of memory in AI

  • The necessity of memory
  • Adding and setting up memory for conversation support
  • Conversation identification
  • Supporting persistent memory
  • Storing chat memory in vector stores

6. AI Tools

  • Enabling tools in applications
  • Understanding tool capabilities
  • Developing and operationalizing tools
  • Using functions as tools

7. The Model Context Protocol (MCP)

  • The rationale behind MCP
  • Working with an MCP Client
  • Developing an MCP Server
  • Databases and tools for the MCP Server
  • Understanding HTTP and SSE (Server-Sent Events) transport
  • Exposing prompts and resources

8. Monitoring operations

  • Activating actuator metrics
  • Reviewing vector store operations
  • Monitoring model interactions
  • Token counting
  • Aggregating data in Prometheus and building dashboards
  • Tracing AI operations

9. Safeguarding in generative AI

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

10. Common generative patterns

  • Summarizing content
  • Translating messages
  • Sentiment analysis

11. The role of Agents

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

Requirements

Participants are expected to possess the following:

  • Strong proficiency in Java programming
  • Hands-on experience with Spring and Spring Boot
  • Knowledge of developing and setting up Spring Boot applications
  • Fundamental understanding of REST APIs and HTTP
  • Basic grasp of JSON and application configuration
  • Foundational knowledge of generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Recommended familiarity with databases and data access concepts
  • No prior experience with Spring AI, RAG, MCP, or AI agents is necessary
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