5.4 Production RAG

RAG Cost Optimization: Find the Step That Runs Forty Times

Tutorial · Advanced · 26 min

The generation call is the one you can see, but in a pipeline with LLM reranking it is not where the money goes — the step that runs once per candidate is.

By: Anacodic Team

RAG Evaluation: Attributing Failure and Sizing the Eval Set

Tutorial · Advanced · 25 min

A single end-to-end score cannot tell you what to fix, because retrieval and generation compose — two systems with the same score can need opposite repairs.

By: Anacodic Team

RAG Monitoring: Your Error Rate Will Not Tell You Anything

Tutorial · Advanced · 26 min

RAG degrades by returning a confident, well-formatted, wrong answer with a 200 status code, so standard application monitoring is nearly blind to it.

By: Anacodic Team

Grounding and Abstention by Design: Refusing Before You Generate the Wrong Answer

Tutorial · Advanced · 17 min

A retrieval-augmented system that always generates an answer, no matter how weak the retrieved context is, will confidently answer questions its source material never addressed.

Includes Colab notebook

By: Anacodic Team

Scaling RAG: Many Tenants, One Code Path

Tutorial · Advanced · 26 min

Scaling RAG is rarely about more documents; it is about more audiences — tenants, departments, verticals, each with its own corpus and rules.

By: Anacodic Team