AI & Technology Course Catalog

LLM Application Engineering Large Language Model (LLM) Fundamentals RuneLab Academy · 12 hours

How foundation models and LLMs work: tokens, context windows, sampling, hallucination, model families and when to choose prompting, RAG or fine-tuning — a hands-on starting point for technical teams.

12 hours

Live Course

6 modules

LLM Application Engineering Large Language Models and the Transformer Architecture RuneLab Academy · 12 hours

A technical deep dive into the transformer: tokenization, self-attention, RoPE, KV cache, scaling laws, SFT, RLHF/DPO and reasoning models, explored hands-on with PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers.

12 hours

Live Course

6 modules

LLM Application Engineering Building Applications with LLM APIs RuneLab Academy · 12 hours

Hands-on programme for building a near-production LLM application with the OpenAI, Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini APIs, covering streaming, conversation state, retries, rate limits, fallbacks and basic evals.

12 hours

Live Course

6 modules

LLM Application Engineering Structured Outputs with LLMs: JSON Schema, Pydantic and Constrained Decoding RuneLab Academy · 12 hours

Getting reliable JSON from LLMs with JSON Schema, OpenAI Structured Outputs, Gemini response schemas, Pydantic/Zod, Instructor and constrained decoding, plus validation, repair loops and document data extraction.

12 hours

Live Course

6 modules

LLM Application Engineering LLM Tool Use and Function Calling RuneLab Academy · 12 hours

How to let LLMs safely call APIs, databases and internal systems via tool/function calling: tool schema design, parallel calls, MCP servers, error handling and permission boundaries.

12 hours

Live Course

6 modules

LLM Application Engineering Prompt and Context Architecture for LLM Applications RuneLab Academy · 12 hours

Context engineering for LLM applications: designing how system prompts, templates, few-shot examples, retrieved content, memory and tool definitions fill the context window, with versioning and eval-driven iteration.

12 hours

Live Course

6 modules

LLM Application Engineering Long-Context LLM Engineering and Context Window Management RuneLab Academy · 12 hours

Solving lost-in-the-middle degradation, KV cache cost and latency in large context windows through context compression, hierarchical memory, prompt caching and needle-in-a-haystack evaluation.

12 hours

Live Course

6 modules

LLM Application Engineering Model Routing and Multi-Model Architecture Design RuneLab Academy · 12 hours

Engineering programme on dynamic model routing, cascades, fallbacks and LLM gateways to balance quality, cost and latency across frontier and small models without single-provider lock-in.

12 hours

Live Course

6 modules

LLM Application Engineering Building Multimodal LLM Applications: Vision, Documents and Audio RuneLab Academy · 12 hours

Hands-on programme for building multimodal LLM applications that process images, scanned documents, charts, audio and video using frontier VLM APIs, open-weight vision models and structured extraction.

12 hours

Live Course

6 modules

LLM Application Engineering Mixture of Experts (MoE) LLMs: Architecture, Serving and Fine-Tuning RuneLab Academy · 12 hours

Advanced programme on sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) LLMs, covering gating networks, active vs total parameters, VRAM sizing, expert parallelism in vLLM/SGLang and MoE fine-tuning.

12 hours

Live Course

6 modules

LLM Application Engineering Streaming and Real-Time AI Application Engineering RuneLab Academy · 12 hours

Building low-latency streaming text, partial structured output and bidirectional voice AI applications using SSE, WebSockets and WebRTC, with TTFT optimisation, barge-in handling and concurrency control.

12 hours

Live Course

6 modules

LLM Application Engineering Small Language Models (SLMs) for Enterprise Applications RuneLab Academy · 12 hours

Building fast, low-cost enterprise solutions with 1B–14B Small Language Models (Llama, Qwen, Gemma, Phi, Ministral) for classification, extraction and routing, including distillation and task adaptation.

12 hours

Live Course

6 modules

LLM Application Engineering Open-Weight LLM Integration and Self-Hosted Serving RuneLab Academy · 12 hours

Deploying and integrating open-weight LLMs (Llama, Qwen, Mistral, DeepSeek) on-premises or in private cloud as OpenAI-compatible APIs using vLLM, SGLang and Ollama, including GPU sizing and quantization.

12 hours

Live Course

6 modules

LLM Application Engineering LLM Cost and Latency Optimisation: Prompt Caching, Batching and FinOps RuneLab Academy · 12 hours

Engineering techniques to cut token spend and p95 latency in production LLM applications: prompt and semantic caching, Batch APIs, output length control, tiered models and unit economics.

12 hours

Live Course

6 modules

LLM Application Engineering LangChain Fundamentals for LLM Application Development RuneLab Academy · 12 hours

Hands-on programme on building modular LLM applications with modern LangChain (LCEL, ChatModel abstractions, prompt templates, structured outputs, tool calling, retrievers and LangSmith tracing).

12 hours

Live Course

6 modules

LLM Application Engineering LLM Engineering for Java & .NET (Spring AI, LangChain4j, Semantic Kernel) RuneLab Academy · 12 hours

Building type-safe LLM, RAG, tool-calling and MCP integrations directly in enterprise Java (Spring AI, LangChain4j) and .NET (Microsoft.Extensions.AI, Semantic Kernel) stacks without switching to Python.

12 hours

Live Course

6 modules

LLM Application Engineering Building Enterprise LLM Applications on Amazon Bedrock RuneLab Academy · 12 hours

Hands-on programme for building enterprise generative AI solutions on AWS using the Amazon Bedrock Converse API, Knowledge Bases, Agents, Guardrails, IAM/VPC security and cost controls.

12 hours

Live Course

6 modules

LLM Application Engineering Enterprise LLM Development with Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry RuneLab Academy · 12 hours

Building enterprise AI applications on Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI Service with GPT and reasoning models, Azure AI Search, Entra ID authentication, Private Endpoints, Content Safety and PTU/quota management.

12 hours

Live Course

6 modules