MCP-powered RAG Over Complex Docs
...with hands-on implementation.
· Avi Chawla
Model Deployment: Serialization, Containerization and API for Inference
MLOps Part 11: A practical guide to taking models beyond notebooks, exploring serialization formats, containerization, and serving predictions using REST and gRPC.
· Avi Chawla
Build a Shared Memory for Claude Desktop and Cursor
100% local.
· Avi Chawla
Build an MCP Server to Connect to 200+ Data Sources
A unified MCP server for all your data (100% local).
· Avi Chawla
An MCP-powered Voice Agent
...powered by Qwen 3 LLM.
· Avi Chawla
Model Development and Optimization: Compression and Portability
MLOps Part 10: A comprehensive guide to model compression covering knowledge distillation, low-rank factorization, and quantization, followed by ONNX and ONNX Runtime as the bridge from training frameworks to fast, portable production inference.
· Avi Chawla
Model Development and Optimization: Fine-Tuning, Pruning, and Efficiency
MLOps Part 9: A deep dive into model fine-tuning and compression, specifically pruning and related improvements.
· Avi Chawla
Model Development and Optimization: Fundamentals of Development and Hyperparameter Tuning
MLOps Part 8: A systems-first guide to model development and optimizing performance with disciplined hyperparameter tuning.
· Avi Chawla
Data and Pipeline Engineering: Distributed Processing and Workflow Orchestration
MLOps Part 7: An applied look at distributed data processing with Spark and workflow orchestration and scheduling with Prefect.
· Avi Chawla
Building an MCP-powered Financial Analyst
100% local.
· Avi Chawla
Data and Pipeline Engineering: Sampling, Data Leakage, and Feature Stores
MLOps Part 6: A deep dive into sampling, class imbalance, and data leakage; plus a hands-on Feast feature store demo.
· Avi Chawla
Data and Pipeline Engineering: Data Sources, Formats, and ETL Foundations
MLOps Part 5: A detailed walkthrough of data engineering for MLOps, covering data sources, format performance trade-offs, and ETL/ELT pipelines.
· Avi Chawla
Reproducibility and Versioning in ML Systems: Weights and Biases for Reproducible ML
MLOps Part 4: A practical walkthrough of W&B-powered reproducibility.
· Avi Chawla
Reproducibility and Versioning in ML Systems: Fundamentals of Repeatable and Traceable Setups
MLOps Part 3: A practical exploration of reproducibility and versioning, covering deterministic training, data and model versioning, and experiment tracking.
· Avi Chawla
The Machine Learning System Lifecycle
MLOps Part 2: A deeper look at the ML lifecycle, plus a minimal train-to-API and containerization demo using FastAPI and Docker.
· Avi Chawla
Background and Foundations for ML in Production
MLOps Part 1: An introduction to machine learning in production, covering pitfalls, system-level concerns, and an overview of the full ML lifecycle.
· Avi Chawla
Building with MCP and LangGraph
MCP Part 9: Building a full-fledged research assistant with MCP and LangGraph.
· Avi Chawla
Practical MCP Integration with 4 Popular Agentic Frameworks
MCP Part 8: Integration of the model context protocol (MCP) with LangGraph, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, and PydanticAI.
· Avi Chawla
MCP-powered Agentic RAG
Hands-on demo.
· Avi Chawla
Sandboxing in MCP
MCP Part 7: A deep dive into understanding sandboxing and its need in MCP.
· Avi Chawla
A Beginner-friendly and Comprehensive Deep Dive on Vector Databases
Understanding every little detail on vector databases and their utility in LLMs, along with a hands-on demo.
· Avi Chawla
Testing and Security in MCP
MCP Part 6: An overview of testing using the MCP Inspector, and a discussion of common vulnerabilities, mitigation strategies, and MCP Roots.
· Avi Chawla
Integrating Sampling into MCP Workflows
MCP Part 5: A deep dive into sampling, its working, code, use cases and best practices.
· Avi Chawla
Building a Full-Fledged MCP Workflow using Tools, Resources, and Prompts
MCP Part 4: An in-depth exploration of MCP resources and prompts, followed by a hands-on demonstration of an MCP server utilizing tools, resources, and prompts for job search and analysis.
· Avi Chawla
Building a Custom MCP Client
MCP Part 3: A step-by-step and from scratch implementation of the MCP client, plus a comparative overview of how MCP differs from both API and function calling.
· Avi Chawla
Primitives, Communication and Practical Usage
MCP Part 2: An overview of key MCP primitives (capabilities), the MCP communication protocol and hands-on examples.
· Avi Chawla
Background, Foundations and Architecture
MCP Part 1: An introduction to model context protocol (MCP), covering background, need and an overview of the architecture and operational mechanics.
· Avi Chawla
Implementing LLaMA 4 from Scratch
A from-scratch implementation of Llama 4 LLM, a mixture-of-experts model, using PyTorch code.
· Avi Chawla
Building a 100% local MCP Client
...with complete code walkthrough and explanation.
· Avi Chawla
10 Practical Steps to Improve Agentic Systems (Part B)
AI Agents Crash Course—Part 14 (with implementation).
· Avi Chawla