The Over Engineered RAG Architecture

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Learn to build a basic RAG architecture by chunking documents, embedding, and retrieving top-k results

intermediate Published 21 May 2026
Action Steps
  1. Chunk your documents into smaller pieces using a library like Hugging Face's transformers
  2. Embed the chunked documents using a sentence embedding model like sentence-transformers
  3. Store the embedded documents in a vector store like Faiss or Pinecone
  4. Retrieve the top-k most relevant documents at query time using a similarity search algorithm
  5. Test and evaluate your RAG architecture using a dataset like Natural Questions or TriviaQA
Who Needs to Know This

NLP engineers and data scientists can benefit from this article to improve their RAG architecture design and implementation

Key Insight

💡 A basic RAG architecture can be built by chunking documents, embedding them, and retrieving top-k results at query time

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Learn to build a basic RAG architecture by chunking documents, embedding, and retrieving top-k results

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