CascadiaJS is thrillled to offer hands-on trainings on JS & AI development.
Instructor: Eve Porcello from Moon Highway
Location: Seattle, WA
Ready to build AI-powered applications? Let's dive into the Vercel AI SDK and modern AI patterns to create intelligent features your users will love. We'll start with the fundamentals and work our way up to building production-ready AI applications.
Morning - AI SDK Essentials
Start your AI development journey by learning the core concepts that make the Vercel AI SDK powerful for building reliable AI features.
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AI SDK Fundamentals- SDK architecture overview
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Provider configuration and model selection
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Streaming responses and UI patterns
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Hands-on: Building your first AI chat interface
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Working with Prompts & Responses- System prompts and message formatting
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Structured outputs with Zod schemas
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Error handling and fallback strategies
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Hands-on: Creating a type-safe AI feature
Afternoon - Shipping Advanced AI Patterns
Explore practical AI patterns and techniques while building real-world features from scratch.
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Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)- Embeddings and vector databases
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Chunking strategies and retrieval patterns
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Combining search with generation
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Hands-on: Building a knowledge base chatbot
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Production AI Features- Rate limiting and cost management
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Caching strategies for AI responses
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Testing and monitoring AI features
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Hands-on: Adding AI search to an application
About CascadiaJS
CascadiaJS is a community for web + AI developers in the Pacific Northwest. We create events that will help you level up, grow your network, find a job and have fun!
About Eve Porcello
Eve Porcello is a software engineer, instructor, author, and co-founder of Moon Highway. Her career started writing technical specifications and creating UX designs for web projects.
Since starting Moon Highway in 2012, she has created video content for egghead.io, O'Reilly Media, and LinkedIn Learning. She is a frequent conference speaker and has presented at events including React Rally, GraphQL Summit, and OSCON.
