Build production GenAI systems on Databricks by mastering prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, model governance, and code intelligence. You will apply chain-of-thought, ReAct, and few-shot prompting patterns to decompose complex tasks, then construct retrieval-augmented generation pipelines that fuse vector search with BM25 using Reciprocal Rank Fusion.

Generative AI and LLMs on Databricks

Generative AI and LLMs on Databricks
This course is part of Enterprise AI and Data Engineering with Databricks Specialization

Instructor: Noah Gift
Access provided by ExxonMobil
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What you'll learn
Apply prompt engineering patterns (CoT, ReAct, few-shot) and sampling parameters to control LLM output for production systems
Design and evaluate hybrid RAG pipelines using embeddings, BM25, and Reciprocal Rank Fusion with six standard retrieval metrics
Implement model security through cryptographic chain-of-trust signing, AI Gateway governance, and Unity Catalog model registry workflows
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There are 4 modules in this course
Covers the four composable GenAI approaches (prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, agents), tokenization mechanics (BPE, vocabulary tradeoffs), advanced prompting patterns (CoT, ReAct, few-shot), sampling parameters, and Databricks Playground for interactive model exploration.
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9 videos5 readings1 assignment
Covers embeddings and vector space semantics, MLflow experiment tracking for GenAI runs, Feature Store integration, code intelligence architecture (PMAT), hybrid RAG pipelines with RRF fusion, production RAG evaluation, and interactive notebook-based retrieval.
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8 videos6 readings1 assignment
Covers the fine-tuning vs RAG decision matrix, model security through cryptographic signing and chain-of-trust verification, AI Gateway for unified multi-provider access, model registry governance via Unity Catalog, and Databricks compute infrastructure for GenAI workloads.
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5 videos4 readings1 assignment
Integrate all course concepts into a single Rust project: a quality-aware code retrieval pipeline using trueno-rag for RAG infrastructure (chunking, embedding, hybrid retrieval, RRF fusion) and pmat for code quality signals (TDG grades, complexity, fault patterns). The capstone demonstrates end-to-end RAG: ingest, enrich, index, query, evaluate.
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