Practice Project: Production AI API

Ship a production-grade AI API with full infrastructure

🔑 Key Concepts

Project goal — FastAPI + RAG + Docker + CI/CD + monitoring + security. The full production stack.
Requirements — Async API, streaming, Docker Compose, GitHub Actions, structured logging, PII redaction, health checks.
Extensions — Rate limiting, auth, cost dashboards, A/B testing, canary deployments.
Success criteria — Deploys automatically from main, API responds in <2s, costs tracked per request, PII redacted.

💡 Practice: Try implementing each concept yourself before moving on. Reading about RAG and building RAG are very different things.