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Inference Engineering Book Club — Week 1

Series: Inference Engineering Book Club

For this first session, finish Chapters 0, 1, and 2 (Inference, Prerequisites, Architecture). We kick off the weekly reading rhythm. Come with your questions and takeaways. Can't join live? Leave not…

Mon, Aug 17, 2026 · 17:00

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Recording available Main or above

LLM Zoomcamp 2026 office hours — Session 1

Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16EUIZQTiAo Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rn_2B6UdOVSQH8rHOpMyajhXeFtIcwFDgo9d9QsqDyU/edit?tab=t.0

Mon, Jun 15, 2026 · 18:00

6 people attended

Recording available Main or above

Add a Vector Database to Your FastAPI AI App

In the previous workshop, we focused on turning an AI agent or RAG-style prototype into a structured FastAPI backend. We covered the backend setup, API structure, configuration, and the foundation fo…

Tue, Jun 9, 2026 · 15:00

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Deploying Vector Search with SQLite

We take the FAQ agent from the End-to-End Agent Deployment workshop and change how it finds answers. That agent searched the FAQ with minsearch, an in-memory keyword index rebuilt from scratch on eve…

Tue, Jun 9, 2026 · 02:00

Recording available Main or above

Freestyle workshop

We will come up with a topic and implement it

Tue, Jun 2, 2026 · 12:00

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Serving Open Models with vLLM on RunPod

Serving an open-source model yourself means renting a GPU and running an inference server on it. In this workshop we take a quantized DeepSeek model and rent a GPU by the hour on RunPod. We serve it …

Tue, Jun 2, 2026 · 02:00

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Solving a Real AI Engineer Take-Home Assignment Live

We solve a real AI engineer take-home assignment live. The product is a small investment coaching bot that answers public-company research questions without crossing into personalized financial advic…

Tue, May 19, 2026 · 17:00

7 people attended

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Deploying an Agent to AWS Lambda

We start from the FastAPI service we deployed to Railway in the previous workshop. We strip out FastAPI and swap it for a custom AWS Lambda runtime. The runtime handles both the static frontend and t…

Tue, May 5, 2026 · 02:00

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Personal Brand for Developers: A 30-Day LinkedIn Challenge

Most of what you do as a developer stays private. You learn a tool, fix a bug, or choose one library over another. Then you move on, and the work disappears. In this workshop you turn that work into …

Tue, Apr 28, 2026 · 02:00

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End-to-End Agent Deployment

We build a FAQ chatbot from notebook to production. You start with a Jupyter notebook that calls the OpenAI Responses API with a single search tool. Then you wrap it in FastAPI and add a vanilla-JS f…

Tue, Apr 21, 2026 · 02:00

Recording available Free

AI Shipping Labs Community Launch

Join us for the official launch of AI Shipping Labs! Valeriia and I are launching a new community for AI builders. In this session we'll walk through: What AI Shipping Labs is and who it's for The c…

Mon, Apr 13, 2026 · 16:30

Recording available Workshop Free with sign-in

Skills.md from Scratch: Build a Skill-Driven Coding Agent

A newer, combined version of this workshop is available: Coding Agent with Skills. We start from the coding agent in the prerequisite workshop. We turn it into a general-purpose coding agent with two…

Fri, Jan 16, 2026 · 01:00

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Building Safe AI Agents with Guardrails

We start with a DataTalks.Club Data Engineering Zoomcamp FAQ assistant. Then we add checks that keep the agent on topic and block unsafe responses. The checks also show how to cancel wasted work when…

Tue, Jan 6, 2026 · 01:00

Recording available Workshop Free with sign-in

Build a Production-Ready YouTube AI Agent with Temporal

We build a deep research agent over the DataTalks.Club podcast archive. We start by downloading and indexing YouTube transcripts. Then we turn that ingestion code into a durable Temporal workflow. On…

Tue, Dec 16, 2025 · 01:00

Recording available Workshop Free with sign-in

Build a Course FAQ Agent with MCP, PydanticAI and OpenAI

We build a course FAQ assistant from the bottom up. First we expose a plain Python search(query) function to the OpenAI Responses API. Then we turn the same idea into a reusable agent loop and compar…

Mon, Sep 1, 2025 · 02:00

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Building a Coding Agent: Python/Django Edition

For a newer, combined take, see Coding Agent with Skills. We build a small project bootstrapper for Django, a coding agent that takes a plain-language app request and copies a working Django template…

Thu, Aug 14, 2025 · 02:00

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AI Coding Tools Compared: ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Cursor, Lovable and AI Agents

We compare AI coding tools by asking each to help build the same small app, Snake in React. We compare the tools rather than ship one polished build. The walkthrough follows the tool categories, movi…

Mon, Jul 21, 2025 · 02:00

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Build Your Own Search Engine

We build a search engine from scratch over DataTalks.Club Zoomcamp FAQ documents. We start with TF-IDF text search, then add cosine similarity and field boosting. From there we move through SVD/LSA a…

Tue, May 21, 2024 · 02:00