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All AI TopicsDeep dives across the AI landscape Generative AIWhat the model families are and how they generate output Prompt EngineeringStructuring instructions so a model does the intended task Context EngineeringWhat goes in the context window, and in what order RAGRetrieval-augmented generation, end to end AI EvalsBuilding the suite: cases, datasets, graders, RAG and agent evals Judge ReliabilityHow far an LLM judge can be trusted, with the measured bias figures

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How Agentic AI WorksA visual guide to the model, tool and verification loop How Models Call ToolsThe request-and-response mechanism behind every agent action LangChain and LangGraphWhere a ready-made agent harness ends and a graph runtime begins Agent MemoryWorking, long-term, and episodic memory across a conversation Agent PlanningInterleaving reasoning with action instead of planning upfront Agent ObservabilityDiagnose failed runs and verify external outcomes

Protocols & runtime

Model Context ProtocolA shared way to connect a model to outside data and functions Agent-to-Agent (A2A)How independent agents discover, delegate and track work Agent SkillsPackaged procedures an agent loads only when needed Agent HarnessesThe layer that owns the agent loop, permissions and sandbox Agent SandboxesWhere unvetted model-generated code actually runs Inference ServingThe engine and the control plane behind a served model

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AI SecurityOWASP Top 10 for LLMs and the AI verification standard AI GovernanceNIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, and ISO 42001 Agentic AIAgents, tool use, and the risks they introduce

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AI EconomicsInference cost, utilisation, build versus buy AI in FinanceTrading, risk, RegTech, payments

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DatabasesRelational, document, vector, graph, streaming Database comparisonPick up to three engines and compare them side by side PostgreSQLArchitecture, extensions, pgvector PostgreSQL InstallationUbuntu, Debian, RHEL family, Windows and macOS PostgreSQL 19REPACK, WAIT, logical sequences, plan advice, upgrade breakers

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Data EngineeringPipelines, CDC, streaming, orchestration, lakehouse MiddlewarePgBouncer, Pgpool-II, keepalived, HAProxy Open SourceLinux, Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure SystemsOS, CPU, GPU, networking, distributed systems ArchitectureDesign patterns for AI and distributed systems

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How a model reads textOne sentence followed from raw text to a predicted next token: tokenisation, token IDs, embeddings, attention and sampling, and what each step decides about cost and behaviour.

Agent Engineering

How agents workFollow a document assistant from a user goal through model decisions, authorised tools, observations and verification, with a visual agent loop.Agent harnessesAn agent is a model plus a harness. What the harness is, the seven subsystems every one of them implements, and why the hardest parts are context, verification and the credential boundary.Loop engineeringDesigning the system that prompts the agent, rather than prompting it yourself: what a loop contains, what the first measurement of real adoption found, and why the evidence for the value claims does not yet exist.Human in the loopPausing an agent for human approval: how interruption and checkpointing actually work, what persistence does not guarantee, and the evidence that approval gates decay into rubber stamps.Multi-agent systemsWhen to split agent work, how adaptive routing differs from adding workers, and what published research says about coordination failures, verification and cost.Agent observabilitySeparate model proposals, tool attempts and real outcomes; follow an uncertain write through a redacted trace and turn the failure into a regression test.

Curricula

Database EngineeringA staged path from modelling a domain in tables to evolving a live schema under traffic, covering normalisation, storage internals, index design, the query planner, transactions and migrations, with a verifiable capability at each stage.AI EngineeringA staged path from using an LLM API correctly to shipping an evaluated, guard-railed RAG or agent system, with a verifiable capability per stage.Production InfrastructureA staged path from Linux fundamentals to running highly available, observable services on Kubernetes, with a verifiable capability at each stage.Claude and Anthropic toolingA staged path through the Messages API, tool use, Claude-specific evaluation, MCP, Claude Code permissions, and production cost, latency and failure.Building Agents with LangChain and LangGraphA runnable document-assistant course covering model interfaces, reducers, retrieval evaluation, bounded delegation and persistent approval, with an offline lab and an interactive state diagram.

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Git & GitHubVersion control and collaboration, from commits to team workflows.ADLCDefine, design, build, evaluate, deploy, monitor and iterate.

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