Learn LLMOps
Nine resources, not ninety. Each one live-verified, labelled by what the certificate is actually worth, and mapped to the layers of the stack it teaches - so "I want to learn layer X" has an answer.
Entries last verified June 2026. Courses move, rename and retire often. Report an outdated course. Plain links only - no affiliate placements.
Two hours, zero budget.
Short, hands-on courses that map directly onto stack layers. Finish one before you commit to anything longer.
LLMOps
Tuning-and-deployment pipeline on Vertex AI; free during the platform beta.
Evaluating and Debugging Generative AI
Tracing, experiment tracking and evals with W&B tooling; free during the platform beta.
When you want a curriculum, not a playlist.
Multi-week paths with a beginning, an end and graded work in between.
Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps) Specialization
The most complete university-backed LLMOps curriculum: local LLMs through AWS, Azure and Databricks.
Deploy and Manage Generative AI Models
Formerly on Cloud Skills Boost (now skills.google). Some hands-on labs may need credits.
What a credential is actually worth.
Read the framing below before you pay for an exam.
Databricks Certified Generative AI Engineer Associate
The closest thing to a real LLMOps credential today: RAG, evals, deployment and governance in one exam.
Professional Machine Learning Engineer
MLOps-heavy with a growing generative AI section; broader than LLMOps alone.
AWS Certified AI Practitioner
Foundational, not engineering-level: strongest on responsible-AI and governance vocabulary.
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate
Building AI solutions with Azure AI services, including retrieval over your own data.
Courses give you structure, books give you depth - podcasts keep you current.
The field moves weekly; these are the shows that track it from the production side, not the hype side.
MLOps Community Podcast
Practitioner interviews on running ML and LLM systems in production.
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
Broad AI-engineering scope - wider than LLMOps.
Practical AI
Long-running and grounded - production stories over hype. Formerly at practicalai.fm.
AI Evals Masterclass with Hamel & Shreya
Step-by-step evals practice on real production data - a free masterclass in one sitting.
Prefer learning by doing?
Everything these courses teach is also on this site, free: start with the stack, score your maturity, then work through the checklist.