Advanced · ~2.7 hr · 10 lessons
Forward Deployed Engineer: RAG, Search and Data
Build retrieval for enterprise documents: ingestion, chunking, keyword and vector search, access control, citations, evaluation and fresh data.
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What's inside
- 1Document Ingestion and Metadata for RAGFree to read
- 2Chunking Trade-offs Measured on a Fixed Question SetEnroll to read
- 3Keyword, Vector and Hybrid Search for RAGEnroll to read
- 4Metadata Filters and Tenant-Aware Access Control in RAGEnroll to read
- 5Context Assembly and Citations for RAG AnswersEnroll to read
- 6RAG Evaluation: Recall, Groundedness and Failure ModesEnroll to read
- 7Embeddings and pgvector Tuning for RAGEnroll to read
- 8Reranking: A Second Stage for RAG RetrievalEnroll to read
- 9Keep RAG Data Current: Sync, Deletes, Messy FilesEnroll to read
- 10Prompt, RAG or Fine-Tune: A Decision GuideEnroll to read
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