Things I Wish I Knew Before Shipping My First RAG Pipeline
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TL;DR Moving a production RAG pipeline from a notebook proof-of-concept into high-traffic deployment exposes brittle failure modes across chunking, ranking, latency, and operational cost. Naive top-k vector search fails on technical documentation; production retrieval requires hybrid search paired…
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- 2026-10-15 09:48 · DEV Community — AI
Things I Wish I Knew Before Shipping My First RAG Pipeline