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Knowledge Graphs: The Missing Piece in Most RAG Systems

Dev.to · Vishwajeet Kondi 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 21h ago

Knowledge Graphs: The Missing Piece in Most RAG Systems

If you've been exploring AI agents recently, chances are you've come across RAG (Retrieval-Augmented...

I built a code Q&A bot with RAG – what worked and what failed

Dev.to · zhongqiyue 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago

I built a code Q&A bot with RAG – what worked and what failed

A few months ago, our team had a problem: every new developer spent days digging through scattered...

Choosing a Vector Database in 2026: pgvector vs Pinecone vs Qdrant vs Weaviate

Dev.to · DatanestDigital 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago

Choosing a Vector Database in 2026: pgvector vs Pinecone vs Qdrant vs Weaviate

A practical comparison of the main vector database options for RAG and semantic search — pgvector, Pinecone, Qdrant, and Weaviate — with the trade-offs that act

RAG Pipeline: The Uncle-Nephew Complete Learning Guide

Dev.to · surajrkhonde 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago

RAG Pipeline: The Uncle-Nephew Complete Learning Guide

How to Build Systems That Actually Know Your Data (Not Hallucinate About It) ...

How Japan’s Research Labs Are Building RAG Systems That Actually Work — And What Western Teams Keep Getting Wrong

Dev.to · xu xu 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago

How Japan’s Research Labs Are Building RAG Systems That Actually Work — And What Western Teams Keep Getting Wrong

Your vector database is returning relevant chunks. Your embedding model scores 0.89 on retrieval...

Your RAG Retrieved the Right Documents but Still Gave the Wrong Answer

Dev.to · mofuteq 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago

Your RAG Retrieved the Right Documents but Still Gave the Wrong Answer

Your retriever returned the right documents. The similarity scores look fine. The answer is still...

RAG Retrieval Quality: Are Large Models Really Necessary?

Dev.to · Mustafa ERBAY 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

RAG Retrieval Quality: Are Large Models Really Necessary?

Introduction: The Place of Large Models in RAG and Lingering Questions Retrieval-Augmented...

RAG Architecture Deep Dive

Dev.to · White Oak Intelligence 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

RAG Architecture Deep Dive

In This Article Why RAG Over Fine-Tuning for Financial Documents Chunking Strategy for Financial...

How I rescued a RAG assistant from memory leaks and got it running on a 512MB RAM free tier

Dev.to · shaikhadibbb 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

How I rescued a RAG assistant from memory leaks and got it running on a 512MB RAM free tier

A few weeks ago, I had a classic "works on my machine" moment. I had built a nice RAG prototype...

RAG - Sparse Embedding

Dev.to · Ramya Perumal 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

RAG - Sparse Embedding

Sparse means thinly spread, scattered, or not dense. In sparse embeddings, chunks are converted into...

98. RAG: Give Your AI Access to Your Documents

Dev.to · Akhilesh 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

98. RAG: Give Your AI Access to Your Documents

You ask ChatGPT about your company's internal policies. It makes something up. It sounds confident....

My RAG system slowly got worse for three months and nobody noticed.

Dev.to · Mukunda Rao Katta 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

My RAG system slowly got worse for three months and nobody noticed.

A composable drift detector for RAG and agent systems. Five orthogonal dimensions, one DriftReport, bring your own embedder and time-series store.

Why hybrid search is the boring default we keep recommending

Dev.to · SapotaCorp 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago

Why hybrid search is the boring default we keep recommending

A team came to us frustrated that their semantic search was missing exact product codes like 'GPT-4o' even though those tokens appeared in the indexed content.

What Enterprise RAG Is Ready For Today and What Production Deployment Actually Requires

Dev.to · Manjunath 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

What Enterprise RAG Is Ready For Today and What Production Deployment Actually Requires

Enterprise RAG — A practitioner's build log | Post 6 of 6 This series has documented a system built...

How to build a production RAG pipeline in Python (without a vector database)

Dev.to · Ayi NEDJIMI 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

How to build a production RAG pipeline in Python (without a vector database)

Everyone reaching for a vector database when building RAG is solving the wrong problem first. For...

Security Controls in Enterprise RAG: Keys, Audit Logs, and the Hierarchy That Prevents Role Elevation

Dev.to · Manjunath 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Security Controls in Enterprise RAG: Keys, Audit Logs, and the Hierarchy That Prevents Role Elevation

Enterprise RAG — A practitioner's build log | Post 5 of 6 A knowledge search system for internal...

Four Metrics That Actually Tell You Whether Your Enterprise RAG Is Working

Dev.to · Manjunath 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Four Metrics That Actually Tell You Whether Your Enterprise RAG Is Working

Enterprise RAG — A practitioner's build log | Post 4 of 6 RAG evaluation in most implementations...

Three Design Decisions That Shaped the Enterprise RAG Retrieval Pipeline

Dev.to · Manjunath 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Three Design Decisions That Shaped the Enterprise RAG Retrieval Pipeline

Enterprise RAG — A practitioner's build log | Post 3 of 6 A retrieval pipeline has more design...

Zero-Trust RAG: Defeating the Shared Private Link Deadlock in Azure Terraform

Dev.to · david 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Zero-Trust RAG: Defeating the Shared Private Link Deadlock in Azure Terraform

Your Terraform pipeline is green. The deployment completes without errors. You grab a coffee. Ten...

Choosing the Right RAG Strategy A Complete Decision Guide to Chunking, Agentic RAG, and GraphRAG

Dev.to · Seenivasa Ramadurai 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Choosing the Right RAG Strategy A Complete Decision Guide to Chunking, Agentic RAG, and GraphRAG

Introduction Here is a scenario many RAG builders know well, you wire up a pipeline, load...

The simplest self-hosted RAG you'll ever set up (Apache 2.0, 20K stars)

Dev.to · retrovirusretro 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

The simplest self-hosted RAG you'll ever set up (Apache 2.0, 20K stars)

Most RAG tools make you choose between simplicity and power. MaxKB doesn't try to be powerful — it...

Tencent just released a RAG framework and nobody's talking about it

Dev.to · retrovirusretro 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Tencent just released a RAG framework and nobody's talking about it

In April 2026, Tencent's WeChat team released WeKnora as open source. MIT licensed. Ollama support...

I Spent 6 Months Fixing RAG. Here's What I Found (And Built)

Dev.to · vigneshwar 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

I Spent 6 Months Fixing RAG. Here's What I Found (And Built)

This is the story of a debugging session that turned into a research paper. The Bug That Started...

Building a Hybrid RAG in 200 Lines — SQLite + FTS5 + sqlite-vec + RRF

Dev.to · soy 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Building a Hybrid RAG in 200 Lines — SQLite + FTS5 + sqlite-vec + RRF

A complete walkthrough of a production-shaped hybrid retrieval system in a single Python file. BM25 keyword search via FTS5, dense vector search via sqlite-vec,