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Building a Production RAG System: Lessons from 6 Months in the Field

Four production RAG deployments. Six months of operating them. What broke, what we changed, what we now do by default — and what we still cannot solve with current tooling.

17 MAY 2026Deep dive

AI & Automation

3 MIN

RAG That Works in Production: Vector Stores, Reranking and the Evaluation Loop

A demo RAG pipeline is not a production RAG system. This is the playbook: chunking strategy, hybrid retrieval, reranking, the eval harness, the cost model, and the update pipeline nobody talks about.

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Building a Production RAG System: Lessons from 6 Months in the Field

RAG That Works in Production: Vector Stores, Reranking and the Evaluation Loop

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