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Building Natural Language and LLM Pipelines
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Building Natural Language and LLM Pipelines

by Laura Funderburk
December 2025
Intermediate to advanced
338 pages
9h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Part 2

Building The Tool Layer with Haystack

In this part, you will transition from theory to hands-on engineering by mastering Haystack as the framework chosen for an agentic system's foundation. You’ll explore the graph-based architecture of Haystack 2.0, learning to use pre-existing components, build custom components with strict data contracts, and encapsulate complex logic in RAG. Through practical projects, you will construct production-grade indexing and hybrid RAG pipelines capable of processing multimodal data streams such as text, audio, and images. By the end of this part, you will be able to implement rigorous testing and quantitative evaluation using the Ragas framework, ensuring your data pipelines serve as a deterministic and ...

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