Tooling and Installation

This chapter presents all the essential tools that will be used throughout the book, especially in implementing and deploying the LLM Twin project. At this point in the book, we don’t plan to present in-depth LLM, RAG, MLOps, or LLMOps concepts. We will quickly walk you through our tech stack and prerequisites to avoid repeating ourselves throughout the book on how to set up a particular tool and why we chose it. Starting with Chapter 3, we will begin exploring our LLM Twin use case by implementing a data collection ETL that crawls data from the internet.

In the first part of the chapter, we will present the tools within the Python ecosystem to manage multiple Python versions, create a virtual environment, and install the pinned dependencies required for our project to run. Alongside presenting these tools, we will also show how to install the LLM-Engineers-Handbook repository on your local machine (in case you want to try out the code yourself...