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Building Natural Language and LLM Pipelines
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In this chapter, we completed the critical transition from RAG developer to RAG architect. We did not just build a pipeline; we built a reproducible, production-ready system.
We began by adopting a professional, modular project structure, justifying its design as a blueprint for team collaboration. We then defended the core architectural decisions that ensure system robustness: the vector space singularity that demands a single, consistent embedding model and the decoupled dual-database architecture that enables resource optimization and live A/B testing.
From this solid foundation, we built a quantitative evaluation pipeline with Ragas, using the synthetic dataset from Chapter 5 to rigorously score our naive and hybrid RAG implementations. This data empowered us to conduct a nuanced, data-driven cost-benefit analysis, weighing the accuracy of hybrid RAG against its latency and the marginal performance gains of text-embedding-3-large against its 6.5x cost. Finally...