Production RAG with LangChain & Vector Databases โ Full Course
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Learn to build, debug, optimize, and scale RAG systems for production. ๐ Free Production AI Starter Kit: https://bit.ly/production-ai-pack This course teaches what tutorials skip: why 90% of RAG projects fail and how to fix them. ๐ป Code, Parts 1-5: https://github.com/pdichone/production-course-m...
Learn to build, debug, optimize, and scale RAG systems for production. ๐ Free Production AI Starter Kit: https://bit.ly/production-ai-pack This course teaches what tutorials skip: why 90% of RAG projects fail and how to fix them. ๐ป Code, Parts 1-5: https://github.com/pdichone/production-course-main-code ๐ป Code, Part 6: https://github.com/pdichone/fcc-production-rag-part-6 Paulo's channel: @vincibits โค๏ธ Support for this channel comes from our friends at Scrimba โ the coding platform that's reinvented interactive learning: https://scrimba.com/freecodecamp โญ๏ธ Chapters โญ๏ธ 0:00:00 Intro 0:01:44 Full RAG Overview 0:08:27 Development Environment Setup 0:15:35 Document Loader - Overview 0:28:27 Document Processing Pipeline - RAG Indexing Pipeline 0:48:12 Embedding Dimensions - Deep Dive 1:01:05 Hands-on - Create a Vector DB Using Chroma 1:17:48 Similarity Search with Scores 1:24:32 Building a Basic RAG System 1:33:16 Debugging RAG Systems 1:53:46 Hybrid Search 1:13:49 Token Budgeting 2:21:10 Observability - Introduction 2:29:56 LangSmith Setup 2:37:56 RAG Optimization 3:12:58 Scaling RAG Systems 3:23:35 The Real Costs of Vector Search 3:33:17 Production Hosting 3:36:00 Supabase and PGVector - Set up and Introduction 4:04:41 Three Pillars of Production Visibility 4:16:11 Production Project 4:34:36 Set up the Security Layer 4:16:11 Set up the LangGraph Agent and the FastAPI API - Testing and LangSmith Observability Dashboard 5:27:46 Test the Security Layer 5:41:36 Security Checklist 6:06:09 Advanced RAG Topics - Long Context Models vs RAG 6:14:29 Contextual Retrieval 6:24:26 Late Chunking vs Early Chunking 6:42:04 Agentic RAG - Self-Correcting Retrieval 7:04:45 GraphRAG - Multi-hop Reasoning 7:24:28 Multimodal RAG - ColPali - Vision-Based Document RAG 7:34:45 Summary - Advanced RAG (Current State) 7:37:02 RAG Evolution - Overview 7:38:35 Outro ๐ Thanks to our Champion and Sponsor supporters: ๐พ @omerhattapoglu1158 ๐พ @goddardtan ๐พ @akihayashi6629 ๐พ @kikilogsin ๐พ @anthonycampbell2148 ๐พ @tobymiller7790 ๐พ @rajibdassharma497 ๐พ @CloudVirtualizationEnthusiast ๐พ @adilsoncarlosvianacarlos ๐พ @martinmacchia1564 ๐พ @ulisesmoralez4160 ๐พ @_Oscar_ ๐พ @jedi-or-sith2728 ๐พ @justinhual1290 -- Learn to code for free and get a developer job: https://www.freecodecamp.org Read hundreds of articles on programming: https://freecodecamp.org/news
What learners say
AI summaryLearners find this a comprehensive and well-explained RAG course that covers both fundamentals and production-level concepts, often calling it one of the best free resources available. However, several note that the provided code repositories are disorganized, with missing or mismatched files, and that some sections are skipped or cut, making it difficult to follow along hands-on.
What learners praise
- clear explanations
- covers basics to production concepts
- better than many paid courses
- good flow and examples
Common caveats
- code repositories disorganized and incomplete
- some sections skipped or cut
- not a true hands-on tutorial
- missing important steps like query rewriter
AI-generated from 100 viewer comments on YouTube โ it summarizes outside comments and is not a CourseShelf review.
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