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Chunking strategies for RAG, and when each one bites you
Fixed-size, semantic, and structure-aware chunking all look fine in a demo. Here's how each one actually fails once real documents hit your production pipeline.
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Fixed-size, semantic, and structure-aware chunking all look fine in a demo. Here's how each one actually fails once real documents hit your production pipeline.
A practical comparison of pgvector, Pinecone, Qdrant, and Weaviate — real cost and latency numbers, and when pgvector is enough.
What separates a working RAG demo from a production RAG system isn't the retrieval — it's the evaluation, observability, and failure-mode handling around it.