Best Practices for Building and Deploying Scalable APIs in 2025
API Deployment for AI Engineers
Good morning!
When we talk about building powerful machine learning solutions, like large language models or retrieval-augmented generation, one key element that often flies under the radar is how to connect all the data and models and deploy them in a real product. This is where APIs come in.
In this iteration, we’re diving into the world of APIs — what they are, why you might need one, and what deployment options are available. This is a crucial concept for an AI engineer today who is playing with LLMs. Let’s dive right in with the last video out of 10 we share from our Towards AI advanced RAG course! (p.s. you can see all the other course videos in the playlist here)
Learn more in this week’s video (or written version here):
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