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1. Introduction to Spring AI

  • Project initialization and configuration
  • The function of prompts and prompt submission
  • Writing the first test
  • Selecting an appropriate model
  • Configuring the model
  • Overview of Spring AI features

2. Interpreting responses

  • Methods for verifying relevant answers
  • Evaluating accuracy at runtime

3. Detailed prompt engineering

  • Utilizing prompt templates
  • Creating a new prompt template
  • Comprehending context
  • Understanding its significance
  • Guiding response generation via options
  • Streaming and formatting output
  • Analyzing response metadata

4. Leveraging your data and documents

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

5. The importance of memory in AI

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

6. AI Tools

  • Building applications with tool support
  • Understanding tool capabilities
  • Writing and deploying tools
  • Using functions as tools

7. The Model Context Protocol (MCP)

  • The necessity of 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. Operational monitoring

  • Activating actuator metrics
  • Monitoring vector store operations
  • Observing model interactions
  • Token counting
  • Integrating with Prometheus and creating dashboards
  • Tracing AI operations

9. Security in generative AI

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

10. Common generative patterns

  • Content summarization
  • Message translation
  • Sentiment analysis

11. The function of Agents

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

Requirements

Participants are expected to have the following background:

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