Building production ETL pipelines for LLM training is complex. After building pipelines processing 100TB+ of data, I’ve learned what works. Here’s the complete guide to building production data pipelines for LLM training. Figure 1: LLM Training Data Pipeline Architecture Why Production ETL Matters for LLM Training LLM training requires massive amounts of clean, processed data: […]
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