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# Qdrant Essentials

**Ship a production-ready docs search in 7 days**

Build the vector search skills that matter: hybrid retrieval, multivector reranking, quantization, distributed deployment, and multitenancy. Ship a complete documentation search engine as your final project.

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- icon: /icons/outline/play-white.svg
  title: 7 days of lessons
  content: Short, focused videos with hands‑on exercises
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  title: Shareable certificate
  content: Earn a digital certificate upon completion
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  title: Flexible schedule
  content: Learn at your own pace (1–2 hours/day)
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  title: Beginner level
  content: No prior Qdrant experience required
  
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## What you'll learn
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- Qdrant data modeling: points, payloads, and schemas
- Embeddings, chunking, and similarity metrics
- Indexing and retrieval tuning (HNSW, filters, recall/latency)
- Hybrid search with sparse + dense vectors and re-ranking
- Performance optimization, compression, and quantization
- Scaling, sharding/replication, and security

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### The Path

**Days 0-2**: Foundations. Connect to Qdrant Cloud, work with points and payloads, compute semantic similarity, chunk text, and tune HNSW for speed and recall.

**Days 3-5**: Advanced retrieval. Combine dense and sparse signals, do hybrid search with server-side fusion, use multivectors (ColBERT) with the Universal Query API, and build recommendations.

**Day 6**: Ship. Wire ingestion, hybrid retrieval, multivector re-ranking, and evaluation (Recall@10, MRR, latency P50/P95).

**Day 7 (bonus)**: Ecosystem. Try integrations with AI frameworks, search tools, and data pipelines.

## How the course works

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  title: Video-first lessons
  content: Clear, concise modules by the Qdrant team
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  title: Final project
  content: Ship a production-ready vector search app
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  title: Bonus day
  content: Explore partner integrations on Day 7
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  title: Pitstop projects
  content: Small builds each day to apply the concept
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## Syllabus

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- title: "Day 0: Setup and First Steps"
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    - Qdrant Cloud Setup
    - Implementing a Basic Vector Search
    - Project: Building Your First Vector Search System
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    <br>
    <p style="margin-left: 0px;"><a href="/course/essentials/day-0/">→ Start Day 0</a></p>

- title: "Day 1: Vector Search Fundamentals"
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    - Points, Vectors and Payloads
    - Distance Metrics
    - Text Chunking Strategies
    - Demo: Semantic Movie Search
    - Project: Building a Semantic Search Engine
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    <br>
    <p style="margin-left: 0px;"><a href="/course/essentials/day-1/">→ Start Day 1</a></p>

- title: "Day 2: Indexing and Performance"
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    - HNSW Indexing Fundamentals
    - Combining Vector Search and Filtering
    - Demo: HNSW Performance Tuning
    - Project: HNSW Performance Benchmarking
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    <br>
    <p style="margin-left: 0px;"><a href="/course/essentials/day-2/">→ Start Day 2</a></p>

- title: "Day 3: Hybrid Search"
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    - Sparse Vectors and Inverted Indexes
    - Demo: Keyword Search with Sparse Vectors
    - Hybrid Search with Score Fusion
    - Demo: Implementing a Hybrid Search System
    - Project: Building a Hybrid Search Engine
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    <br>
    <p style="margin-left: 0px;"><a href="/course/essentials/day-3/">→ Start Day 3</a></p>

- title: "Day 4: Optimization and Scale"
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    - Vector Quantization Methods
    - Accuracy Recovery with Rescoring
    - High-Throughput Data Ingestion
    - Project: Quantization Performance Optimization
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    <br>
    <p style="margin-left: 0px;"><a href="/course/essentials/day-4/">→ Start Day 4</a></p>

- title: "Day 5: Advanced APIs"
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    - Multivectors for Late Interaction Models
    - The Universal Query API
    - Demo: Universal Query for Hybrid Retrieval
    - Project: Building a Recommendation System
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    <p style="margin-left: 0px;"><a href="/course/essentials/day-5/">→ Start Day 5</a></p>

- title: "Day 6: Final Project - Building a Production-Grade Search Engine"
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    - Project Architecture and Evaluation Framework
    - Implementation and Performance Evaluation
    - Course Summary and Next Steps
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    <br>
    <p style="margin-left: 0px;"><a href="/course/essentials/day-6/">→ Start Day 6</a></p>

- title: "Day 7: Partner Ecosystem Integrations (Bonus)"
  content: |
    - AI & LLM Frameworks (Haystack, Jina AI, TwelveLabs)
    - Data Processing (Unstructured.io)
    - ML Platforms & Analytics (Tensorlake, Vectorize.io, Superlinked, Quotient)
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    <p style="margin-left: 0px;"><a href="/course/essentials/day-7/">→ Start day 7</a></p>
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## Who it's for

ML, backend, data, and search engineers building RAG, semantic search, or recommendations. Requires intermediate Python, basic CLI/APIs, and familiarity with embeddings.

## Time commitment

- Duration: 6 days at 1-2 hours/day + 1 optional bonus day
- Video learning: ~3 hours
- Hands-on learning: 4-5 hours
- Final project: 2-4 hours
- Total: 9-12 hours


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**What you’ll get**
- Build a production-ready docs search engine
- Practice with real projects
- Learn performance tuning techniques
- Portfolio artifacts and community support
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