Development Workflows in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Lessons in this section

1. RAG Interface Design

   Designing the interface of a RAG assistant: answer states, streaming, citation chips, refusal and error states, reading server-sent events in the frontend, accessibility and feedback that feeds evaluation.

2. RAG Service Backend

   Building the backend service behind a RAG assistant: API design, access filters from the session, validation and errors, streaming with checked citations, safe caching, and ingestion and deletion as background jobs.

3. Engineering Knowledge Assistant

   Building an internal RAG assistant over engineering docs for UI/UX, frontend, backend, security and testing: what to index, team-based access, secret redaction, the gold set in CI and end-to-end UI tests.