Spring AI Training Course

1. Introduction to Spring AI

• Creating and configuring projects
• The function of prompts and their submission
• Writing initial tests
• Selecting an appropriate model
• Configuring model settings
• Overview of Spring AI capabilities

2. Interpreting responses

• Verifying answer relevance
• Assessing runtime accuracy

3. Prompt engineering details

• Utilizing prompt templates
• Defining custom prompt templates
• Understanding context usage
• The significance of the role parameter
• Influencing generation via options
• Streaming and formatting output
• Response metadata

4. Leveraging your data and documents

• Grasping RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
• Setting up vector stores and loading documents
• Implementing basic RAG
• Using RAG with advisors
• Modular RAG features

5. Memory in AI systems

• The necessity of memory
• Configuring memory for conversation support
• Managing conversation IDs
• Supporting persistent memory
• Storing chat history in vector stores

6. AI Tools

• Enabling tool capabilities in applications
• Understanding tool functions
• Developing and implementing tools
• Using functions as tools

7. Model Context Protocol (MCP)

• The purpose of MCP
• Operating with an MCP Client
• Developing an MCP Server
• Integrating databases and tools for the MCP Server
• Understanding HTTP and SSE (Server-Sent Events) transports
• Exposing prompts and resources

8. Operational monitoring

• Activating actuator metrics
• Monitoring vector store operations
• Tracking model interactions
• Counting tokens
• Implementing Prometheus and creating dashboards
• Tracing AI operations

9. Generative AI safeguarding

• Controlling RAG-accessed documents
• Securing AI tools
• Mitigating adversarial prompting
• Moderating user input

10. Standard generative patterns

• Summarizing content
• Translating messages
• Analyzing sentiment

11. The function of Agents

• Defining an agent
• Building agentic workflows
• Chaining prompts, routing tasks, and parallelizing
• Accessing agents via MCP