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Retrieval Is the Product: Engineering a RAG Pipeline That Holds Up
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Retrieval Is the Product: Engineering a RAG Pipeline That Holds Up

A production RAG system succeeds or fails before generation: in document preparation, retrieval, reranking, evidence assembly, and evaluation.

Aug 11, 2026·9 min read
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