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ETL to RAG: Clean, Split, Enrich, Embed

ETL to RAG: Clean, Split, Enrich, Embed

  • Post author:Filip Lapiński
  • Post published:January 3, 2026
  • Post category:RAG & Knowledge Retrieval

Building a High-Quality Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Pipeline Practical steps to design and deploy an accurate RAG pipeline that improves answers a

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RAG vs. Fine‑Tuning for FAQs: A Cost‑Based Guide

RAG vs. Fine‑Tuning for FAQs: A Cost‑Based Guide

  • Post author:Filip Lapiński
  • Post published:December 26, 2025
  • Post category:RAG & Knowledge Retrieval

Estimating LLM Deployment Costs: Goals, Tradeoffs, and a Practical TCO Learn how to scope LLM projects, estimate costs across compute, storage, and labelin

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Common RAG Failure Modes—and How to Fix Them

Common RAG Failure Modes—and How to Fix Them

  • Post author:Filip Lapiński
  • Post published:December 16, 2025
  • Post category:RAG & Knowledge Retrieval

How to Diagnose and Fix RAG Failures: Practical Guide Pinpoint RAG failure modes and apply concrete fixes—better retrieval, grounding, prompts, context han

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Keeping RAG Fresh: Incremental Updates & Re‑indexing

Keeping RAG Fresh: Incremental Updates & Re‑indexing

  • Post author:Filip Lapiński
  • Post published:December 5, 2025
  • Post category:RAG & Knowledge Retrieval

Setting Freshness Goals and Pipelines for Retrieval-Augmented Systems Define freshness goals, build incremental ingestion, detect drift, and re-index effic

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Citations That Users Trust: Design Patterns for RAG UIs

Citations That Users Trust: Design Patterns for RAG UIs

  • Post author:Filip Lapiński
  • Post published:November 22, 2025
  • Post category:RAG & Knowledge Retrieval

Designing Trustworthy Citation UX for Generative AI Improve user trust and decision-making with clear citations, provenance, and inspection tools — practic

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Evaluating RAG: Precision@K, Recall, and Practical KPIs

Evaluating RAG: Precision@K, Recall, and Practical KPIs

  • Post author:Filip Lapiński
  • Post published:November 10, 2025
  • Post category:RAG & Knowledge Retrieval

How to Evaluate and Benchmark Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Systems Measure RAG quality and cost with clear metrics, tests, and checklists to boost

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How to Build a Lightweight RAG with No Code

How to Build a Lightweight RAG with No Code

  • Post author:Filip Lapiński
  • Post published:October 28, 2025
  • Post category:RAG & Knowledge Retrieval

How to Build a Lightweight RAG System Using No-Code Tools Fast-start a cost-effective Retrieval-Augmented Generation flow using no-code tools and affordabl

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Hybrid Search (Lexical + Vector): Best of Both Worlds

Hybrid Search (Lexical + Vector): Best of Both Worlds

  • Post author:Filip Lapiński
  • Post published:October 16, 2025
  • Post category:RAG & Knowledge Retrieval

Hybrid Semantic + Keyword Search: A Practical Implementation Guide Combine semantic embeddings with keyword search to improve relevance and recall — practi

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Metadata Matters: Tags that Supercharge Retrieval

Metadata Matters: Tags that Supercharge Retrieval

  • Post author:Filip Lapiński
  • Post published:October 4, 2025
  • Post category:RAG & Knowledge Retrieval

Metadata and Tagging Best Practices for Retrieval Better metadata makes assets findable and usable — improve retrieval accuracy, reduce friction, and deplo

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Choosing a Vector DB: Lite vs. Heavyweight Options

Choosing a Vector DB: Lite vs. Heavyweight Options

  • Post author:Filip Lapiński
  • Post published:September 21, 2025
  • Post category:RAG & Knowledge Retrieval

Choosing the Right Database for High-Throughput Applications Compare performance, cost, and integration trade-offs to pick a database that meets throughput

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