AI Engineering 15 min
RAG: Storage & RetrievalA beginner-friendly guide to RAG vector databases, storage, similarity search, indexing, HNSW, and retrieval trade-offs.
Updated Jul 2026Read
Documenting the concepts I am learning and translating my hand written notes into crisp mental models illutrated with diagrams and implementation handy nuances.
A beginner-friendly guide to RAG vector databases, storage, similarity search, indexing, HNSW, and retrieval trade-offs.
A beginner-friendly guide to RAG chunking strategies, metadata, embedding model trade-offs, parsers, and retrieval quality.
RAG 101 & its architecture.
Attention mechanism helps LLM understand the context of the text and help predict the next token.
How is an LLM trained? How does it relate 2 concepts?
A beginner-friendly mental model for how LLMs generate responses, how tokens drive cost, and how to write effective prompts.