In this session we will dive into the practical realities of deploying a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) application. This lecture is designed to equip you with invaluable insights and strategies derived from real-world implementation experiences.

We'll dive into the practical challenges that arise when moving from concept to production, sharing tried-and-true improvements and innovative solutions that address these hurdles.

We will then discuss some potential ways to incorporate visual elements like images and charts, identifying and extracting a document's metadata, and we'll share some cost and latency optimization techniques for building a scalable ingestion pipeline that ensure efficiency with limited impact on performance. In addition, we'll also explore the challenges in evaluating the performance of RAG based systems and the methods we have used overcoming them.