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Retrieval augmented generation, or RAG, is an architectural approach that can improve the efficacy of large language model (LLM) applications by leveraging custom data.

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Securing a RAG Pipeline — The Threats I Designed Against and the Ones I Didn't

Securing a RAG Pipeline — The Threats I Designed Against and the Ones I Didn't

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Chunking Strategy: Why I Split on Paragraph Boundaries Instead of Token Count

Chunking Strategy: Why I Split on Paragraph Boundaries Instead of Token Count

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How I Used Chroma as a Local Vector Store — And What You'd Swap It for in Production

How I Used Chroma as a Local Vector Store — And What You'd Swap It for in Production

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Local Embeddings vs. API Embeddings — Why I Chose sentence-transformers

Local Embeddings vs. API Embeddings — Why I Chose sentence-transformers

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RAG vs fine-tuning: which one your problem actually needs

RAG vs fine-tuning: which one your problem actually needs

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Multilingual RAG Architecture That Works in Production

Multilingual RAG Architecture That Works in Production

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Query rewriting for RAG: expansion, decomposition and HyDE, explained simply

Query rewriting for RAG: expansion, decomposition and HyDE, explained simply

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Seven ways RAG fails in production, and the fix for each

Seven ways RAG fails in production, and the fix for each

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Multi-provider LLM fallback: staying up when one API goes down

Multi-provider LLM fallback: staying up when one API goes down

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FAISS vs Qdrant vs pgvector: choosing a vector store for a student or startup RAG project

FAISS vs Qdrant vs pgvector: choosing a vector store for a student or startup RAG project

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Citations in RAG answers: how to make every sentence traceable to a source

Citations in RAG answers: how to make every sentence traceable to a source

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How to evaluate a RAG system: recall, faithfulness and the questions that matter

How to evaluate a RAG system: recall, faithfulness and the questions that matter

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A RAG project for your college: notes, syllabus and PYQs you can actually query

A RAG project for your college: notes, syllabus and PYQs you can actually query

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Choosing an embedding model for RAG (and when to switch)

Choosing an embedding model for RAG (and when to switch)

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Chunking strategies for RAG: sizes, overlap and structure-aware splits

Chunking strategies for RAG: sizes, overlap and structure-aware splits

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