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Production Claude Application Capstone
Ship a production Claude application. Cover environment config, observability, safety layers, deployment patterns like canary and feature flags, and incident response runbooks, then bring every technique from the AI Engineer path together in a portfolio-grade end-to-end capstone.
Streaming, batching, and cost optimization at scale
Ship Claude at production volume. Cut spend with the Message Batches API for non-interactive workloads, prompt caching at scale, and smart model routing. Improve perceived latency with server-sent event streaming, and harden the stack with rate-limit and retry patterns.
Claude Vision and PDF processing
Process images and PDFs with Claude: chart extraction, receipt and invoice OCR, form understanding, multi-page document reasoning, and structured JSON extraction. Learn the vision content-block shape, PDF handling, cost and latency tradeoffs, and when to route to Haiku, Sonnet, or Opus.
Evaluations and Observability for Claude Apps
Build eval harnesses that catch regressions before they ship. Cover test-bank design, LLM-as-judge patterns, tracing and structured logging, cost and latency monitoring, and wiring prompt changes into CI so quality stays measurable as your Claude app grows.
Structured Output + JSON with Claude
Produce schema-valid, downstream-ready structured output from Claude. Use tool calling as a JSON forcer, pair it with Pydantic and JSON Schema, build extraction pipelines for emails, PDFs, and HTML, stream structured outputs, and recover gracefully when validation fails.
Multi-Agent Claude Systems
Design and build systems where multiple Claude agents collaborate. Cover orchestrator-worker patterns, agent handoffs, shared state, parallel execution with debate and vote consensus, and specialization so each agent has focused tools and a focused system prompt.
Building MCP Servers
Ship your own Model Context Protocol servers. Expose tools, resources, and prompts to any MCP-compatible client such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or your own app. Cover stdio and HTTP transports, packaging and distribution, and testing patterns in Python.
MCP Fundamentals with Claude
Learn Model Context Protocol, the open standard Anthropic built so Claude can discover and call external tools and data sources without custom glue. Understand the three primitives (tools, resources, prompts), connect to existing MCP servers from Python, and build a multi-server client.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Claude
Ground Claude in your own data with retrieval-augmented generation. Build hybrid vector plus full-text pipelines, chunk documents for optimal retrieval, add reranking for precision, and evaluate whether answers stay faithful to sources. Lightweight in-process vector search keeps the focus on RAG mechanics, not infrastructure.
Building Claude Agents
Turn Claude from a one-shot chat model into an autonomous agent. Build tool-calling loops from scratch, add multi-step orchestration with retries, produce safe structured JSON, and evaluate agent behavior on real tasks. Hands-on in a Python VS Code lab with the Claude API proxy handling auth.
Prompt Engineering with Claude
Shape Claude's output on purpose. Cover XML tag conventions, few-shot examples, chain-of-thought scaffolding, and prompt caching for cost and throughput wins. For developers who have made their first Claude calls and want prompts that hold up in production.
AI Engineering Foundations with Claude
Entry-level primer for software engineers new to Claude. Tour the Console and Playground, make your first API calls from Python, build multi-turn conversations with streaming, and learn how to pick the right model for the job on cost, latency, and capability.
AI-200: Developing AI Cloud Solutions on Azure for Python Developers
Build production-ready Python AI back-ends on Azure across 12 hands-on labs: containers (ACR, App Service, Container Apps, AKS), data services with vector search (Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL pgvector, Managed Redis), eventing (Service Bus, Event Grid, Functions), and security + observability (Key Vault, App Configuration, OpenTelemetry, KQL). Capstone integrates everything into the Northwind Logistics back-end. Prepares you for Microsoft Exam AI-200.
Building MCP Servers for Claude Code: From Zero to Production
Go from zero to production MCP server developer for Claude Code. Build a learning server across tools, resources, prompts, sampling, roots, and elicitation, then ship a production one with Streamable HTTP, OAuth, observability, packaging, and registry publishing in TypeScript.
Building a Retirement & Portfolio App with Next.js and Claude Code
Build RetireScope, a retirement and portfolio web app, using Next.js 16, TypeScript, PostgreSQL with Drizzle, Tremor and Visx charts, and a Claude-powered AI assistant. Each module adds a working feature with Claude Code as your pair programmer, from account management through Monte Carlo projections and tax-aware withdrawals.
Building an AI-Powered Field Inspection App with Expo and Claude Code
Build InspectAI, a mobile field inspection app, using Expo (React Native), TypeScript, and Claude Code as your AI pair programmer. Progressively add equipment management, camera capture, Claude Vision defect analysis, structured checklists, and PDF report generation across hands-on labs.
Claude Code Certified Architect — Foundations (CCA-F)
Prepare for the CCA-F certification. Master agentic architecture, Claude Code configuration, prompt engineering, MCP integration, and context reliability through hands-on labs that build production-grade AI systems.
Building a SaaS Task Tracker with C# and Claude Code
Build TeamTrackr, a multi-tenant SaaS task tracker, in C# with Claude Code as your AI pair programmer. Covers authentication, role-based access, real-time SignalR updates, background jobs, Stripe billing, file storage, search, testing, monitoring, and Docker deployment, from empty project to launch-ready product.
Building with Claude Code — A Developer's Guide
Accelerate your C# and .NET workflow with Claude Code as an AI pair programmer. Progress from first prompts through codebase exploration, TDD, refactoring, ASP.NET Web APIs, EF Core, debugging, git workflows, CLAUDE.md project memory, hooks, and custom workflows, finishing with a full-stack capstone.