The Problem
The industry is flooded with “5-minute RAG” tutorials. They all work perfectly with one PDF and one user.
They all fail catastrophically in production.
A production system is not a demo. It faces unstructured data, unpredictable user queries, and the demand for 100% reliability. The “tutorial” approach fails because it ignores the real-world engineering challenges:
- Naive Chunking: Treating complex documents like flat text.
- Basic Retrieval: Relying only on vector similarity.
- No Evaluation Framework: Flying blind without metrics.
- Zero Observability: No insight into why a query failed.
- Ignored Latency: Systems that take 30 seconds to answer.
The Standard
A production-grade system is not a script. It is an architecture.
It requires a shift in thinking: from “code” to “systems,” from “prompts” to “pipelines.”
This is not a tutorial. This is an analysis of production-grade failure points. We build systems that are robust over refined. Systems that are built to last.