← All 186 courses
AI-308 AI & Data

AI Service Engineering with FastAPI

Wrap models and agents in professional APIs: FastAPI routing, pydantic validation, async patterns, streaming responses, health and version endpoints, auth, and containerised deployment — the service layer every AI capability ships behind.

B3Practitioner
5modules
33skill atoms
2role journeys
Curriculum

What this course covers.

5 modules, 33 named skill atoms. Expand any module to see them.

1API Design for AI7 skill atoms
resource designsync vs streaming endpointslong-running job patternrequest IDsidempotency keysversioned routespayload size limits
2Validation & Contracts6 skill atoms
pydantic modelserror envelopesfield validators4xx vs 5xx mappingOpenAPI schema generationbackward-compatible changes
3Async & Streaming6 skill atoms
async IOSSE token streamingasync vs sync endpointsthread-pool offload for blocking callsclient disconnect handlingconcurrency limits
4Operational Endpoints7 skill atoms
/healthz/versionrequest loggingreadiness vs livenessstructured JSON logscorrelation IDsdependency health checks
5Secure & Ship7 skill atoms
API keysrate limitsDocker deployauth dependency injectionper-key quotasCORS configuvicorn worker sizing
Where it fits

AI-308 in the role journeys.

This course appears in 2 of our 45 role journeys. Here is what a learner takes immediately before and after it in each.

GenAI / LLM Engineer

Practitioner stage
AI-301AI-308AI-310

Forward Deployed Engineer

Practitioner stage
AI-302AI-308AI-502

Roles this course serves

The capability ladder

This course is authored to band B3.

Every course we run is written to one rung of the CASI ladder, so a plan can be assembled to take a team from where they are to where they need to be.

What do B1–B6 mean?The CASI Capability Ladder — click to expand

Every course targets a band on the CASI Capability Ladder — our six-band proficiency scale, anchored to open standards (O*NET, ESCO, NICE, NIST AI RMF, Bloom's). A band tells you how deep a course goes, and what evidence proves it.

What the learner can doTypical evidence
B1
AwareUnderstands concepts and vocabulary; uses tools with guidance
Knowledge checks
B2
FoundationPerforms standard tasks correctly in familiar contexts
Guided labs, autograded exercises
B3
PractitionerDelivers complete pieces of work independently
Scenario labs, proctored hands-on exams
B4
ProfessionalHandles production-grade complexity, trade-offs and failure modes
Break-fix drills, design defenses
B5
AdvancedEngineers systems end-to-end under constraints; leads others
Rubric-scored capstones, vivas
B6
ExpertSets direction; recognised authority across teams
Portfolio + panel evaluation

A note on B6. Courses in this catalog target B1–B5. B6 is not taught — it is recognised, through a portfolio and a panel, once someone is setting direction for others. Every journey here is built to land a learner at B5.

Next step

Run AI-308 for your team.

This course runs at several lengths depending on how deep you need to go and how much of it your people already have. Tell us who is being trained and we will scope it.

Add it to a training plan Talk to our team Check your team’s level free