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RAG Retrieval Quality: Are Large Models Really Necessary?

Dev.to · Mustafa ERBAY 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

RAG Retrieval Quality: Are Large Models Really Necessary?

Introduction: The Place of Large Models in RAG and Lingering Questions Retrieval-Augmented...

RAG Architecture Deep Dive

Dev.to · White Oak Intelligence 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

RAG Architecture Deep Dive

In This Article Why RAG Over Fine-Tuning for Financial Documents Chunking Strategy for Financial...

How I rescued a RAG assistant from memory leaks and got it running on a 512MB RAM free tier

Dev.to · shaikhadibbb 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

How I rescued a RAG assistant from memory leaks and got it running on a 512MB RAM free tier

A few weeks ago, I had a classic "works on my machine" moment. I had built a nice RAG prototype...

RAG - Sparse Embedding

Dev.to · Ramya Perumal 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

RAG - Sparse Embedding

Sparse means thinly spread, scattered, or not dense. In sparse embeddings, chunks are converted into...

98. RAG: Give Your AI Access to Your Documents

Dev.to · Akhilesh 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

98. RAG: Give Your AI Access to Your Documents

You ask ChatGPT about your company's internal policies. It makes something up. It sounds confident....

My RAG system slowly got worse for three months and nobody noticed.

Dev.to · Mukunda Rao Katta 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

My RAG system slowly got worse for three months and nobody noticed.

A composable drift detector for RAG and agent systems. Five orthogonal dimensions, one DriftReport, bring your own embedder and time-series store.

Why hybrid search is the boring default we keep recommending

Dev.to · SapotaCorp 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

Why hybrid search is the boring default we keep recommending

A team came to us frustrated that their semantic search was missing exact product codes like 'GPT-4o' even though those tokens appeared in the indexed content.

What Enterprise RAG Is Ready For Today and What Production Deployment Actually Requires

Dev.to · Manjunath 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

What Enterprise RAG Is Ready For Today and What Production Deployment Actually Requires

Enterprise RAG — A practitioner's build log | Post 6 of 6 This series has documented a system built...

How to build a production RAG pipeline in Python (without a vector database)

Dev.to · Ayi NEDJIMI 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

How to build a production RAG pipeline in Python (without a vector database)

Everyone reaching for a vector database when building RAG is solving the wrong problem first. For...

Security Controls in Enterprise RAG: Keys, Audit Logs, and the Hierarchy That Prevents Role Elevation

Dev.to · Manjunath 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

Security Controls in Enterprise RAG: Keys, Audit Logs, and the Hierarchy That Prevents Role Elevation

Enterprise RAG — A practitioner's build log | Post 5 of 6 A knowledge search system for internal...

Four Metrics That Actually Tell You Whether Your Enterprise RAG Is Working

Dev.to · Manjunath 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

Four Metrics That Actually Tell You Whether Your Enterprise RAG Is Working

Enterprise RAG — A practitioner's build log | Post 4 of 6 RAG evaluation in most implementations...

Three Design Decisions That Shaped the Enterprise RAG Retrieval Pipeline

Dev.to · Manjunath 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

Three Design Decisions That Shaped the Enterprise RAG Retrieval Pipeline

Enterprise RAG — A practitioner's build log | Post 3 of 6 A retrieval pipeline has more design...

Zero-Trust RAG: Defeating the Shared Private Link Deadlock in Azure Terraform

Dev.to · david 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

Zero-Trust RAG: Defeating the Shared Private Link Deadlock in Azure Terraform

Your Terraform pipeline is green. The deployment completes without errors. You grab a coffee. Ten...

Choosing the Right RAG Strategy A Complete Decision Guide to Chunking, Agentic RAG, and GraphRAG

Dev.to · Seenivasa Ramadurai 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

Choosing the Right RAG Strategy A Complete Decision Guide to Chunking, Agentic RAG, and GraphRAG

Introduction Here is a scenario many RAG builders know well, you wire up a pipeline, load...

The simplest self-hosted RAG you'll ever set up (Apache 2.0, 20K stars)

Dev.to · retrovirusretro 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

The simplest self-hosted RAG you'll ever set up (Apache 2.0, 20K stars)

Most RAG tools make you choose between simplicity and power. MaxKB doesn't try to be powerful — it...

Tencent just released a RAG framework and nobody's talking about it

Dev.to · retrovirusretro 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

Tencent just released a RAG framework and nobody's talking about it

In April 2026, Tencent's WeChat team released WeKnora as open source. MIT licensed. Ollama support...

I Spent 6 Months Fixing RAG. Here's What I Found (And Built)

Dev.to · vigneshwar 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

I Spent 6 Months Fixing RAG. Here's What I Found (And Built)

This is the story of a debugging session that turned into a research paper. The Bug That Started...

Building a Hybrid RAG in 200 Lines — SQLite + FTS5 + sqlite-vec + RRF

Dev.to · soy 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

Building a Hybrid RAG in 200 Lines — SQLite + FTS5 + sqlite-vec + RRF

A complete walkthrough of a production-shaped hybrid retrieval system in a single Python file. BM25 keyword search via FTS5, dense vector search via sqlite-vec,

RAG Evaluation with RAGAS: Measuring Faithfulness, Context Precision, and Recall in Production

Dev.to · Anna Danilec 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

RAG Evaluation with RAGAS: Measuring Faithfulness, Context Precision, and Recall in Production

Key takeaways: RAGAS gives you four core metrics that split RAG failures into retrieval vs....

Chunking for RAG: stop tuning the wrong knob

Dev.to · saurabh naik 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

Chunking for RAG: stop tuning the wrong knob

A practical chunking playbook for RAG: why semantic splitters disappoint, what chunk size + overlap actually buy you, and a small eval harness in Python.

lexgraph

Dev.to · Sujatha 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

I Benchmarked GraphRAG vs Basic RAG on 70,000 Indian Supreme Court Judgments — Here's What...

Your RAG Pipeline Is Failing 40% of Queries. Here's the Fix.

Dev.to · Spicy 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

Your RAG Pipeline Is Failing 40% of Queries. Here's the Fix.

You deployed a RAG pipeline. You tested it. You shipped it. Then a real user asked a multi-step...

The Answer Is an Edge, Not a Sentence — Building a Topology-Native GraphRAG Intelligence Platform with TigerGraph

Dev.to · feminist 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

The Answer Is an Edge, Not a Sentence — Building a Topology-Native GraphRAG Intelligence Platform with TigerGraph

How we built Shadow Network Intelligence — a GraphRAG-powered fraud investigation platform that...

Building RAG Assistant: A I Built a Desktop RAG Chatbot From Scratch — Here's Everything I Learned

Dev.to · sydney muganda 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

Building RAG Assistant: A I Built a Desktop RAG Chatbot From Scratch — Here's Everything I Learned

This week I moved past basic tutorials to build a structured, package-based desktop RAG application...