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Introduction to LLMOps

  • Contrasting LLMOps with MLOps: addressing the unique operational challenges of LLMs
  • The LLM application lifecycle: prompt design, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
  • A production readiness checklist for GenAI applications

Managing and Versioning Prompts

  • Utilizing prompt templating systems and variable injection
  • Applying semantic versioning to prompts alongside automated regression testing
  • Establishing prompt registries and collaborative workflows

Evaluating LLMs at Scale

  • Key evaluation dimensions: accuracy, relevance, safety, and groundedness
  • Using LLM-as-judge metrics and designing human evaluation pipelines
  • Leveraging automated evaluation frameworks such as RAGAS, DeepEval, and custom evaluators
  • Integrating quality gates into CI/CD pipelines for LLM deployments

Safety Guardrails and Content Governance

  • Implementing input and output guardrails using tools like NeMo Guardrails and Guardrails AI
  • Detecting PII, filtering toxicity, and defining topic boundaries
  • Strategies for defending against jailbreaks and prompt injection attacks
  • Red-teaming LLM applications to ensure safety assurances

Observability and Monitoring for LLMs

  • Tracking telemetry data: token usage, latency, costs, and quality metrics
  • Detecting drift in LLM outputs and embedding spaces
  • Tracing session-level interactions for multi-turn agent conversations
  • Creating dashboards and setting alerts using LangSmith, Arize, and OpenTelemetry

AI Gateways and Model Orchestration

  • Multi-provider routing via LiteLLM and Portkey
  • Defining fallback strategies, retry logic, and circuit breakers
  • Cost-aware model selection and load balancing techniques
  • Managing rate limits, quotas, and API keys

Performance Optimization

  • Semantic caching using vector stores and exact-match strategies
  • Enforcing structured outputs through constrained decoding
  • Implementing batching, streaming, and concurrency patterns
  • Optimizing latency across different model providers

Governance, Compliance, and Auditing

  • Maintaining LLM audit trails: logging prompts, responses, and decision provenance
  • Addressing data residency and privacy considerations for LLM APIs
  • Implementing policy-as-code for internal LLM usage
  • Developing an internal LLM operations playbook

Requirements

  • Practical experience in developing or integrating LLM-based applications.
  • Proficiency with Python and REST APIs.
  • A foundational grasp of prompt engineering concepts.

Intended Audience

  • ML engineers and MLOps specialists transitioning into LLM operations.
  • Platform engineers overseeing LLM infrastructure.
  • Technical leads responsible for managing production GenAI deployments.
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