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30-day course
RAG Mastery: 30-Day Retrieval Engineering Lab
Build production-grade retrieval systems across 30 days, from corpus governance and ingestion through hybrid search, reranking, citations, evaluations, authorization, and operations. Follow FieldDesk and PolicyDesk as continuous application scenarios.
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30
Lessons
1350m
Total Time
Lessons
1. Day 1: Frame the Question RAG Must Answerbeginner
45m
2. Day 2: Audit and Govern the Source Corpusbeginner
45m
3. Day 3: Create a Gold Set with Evidence Labelsbeginner
45m
4. Day 4: Build a Robust Document Ingestion Pipelinebeginner
45m
5. Day 5: Preserve Structure During Parsing and Cleanupbeginner
45m
6. Day 6: Choose and Evaluate Chunk Boundariesintermediate
45m
7. Day 7: Design Metadata for Filtering and Provenanceintermediate
45m
8. Day 8: Select and Evaluate an Embedding Modelintermediate
45m
9. Day 9: Build a Vector Index and Understand Its Tradeoffsintermediate
45m
10. Day 10: Add Lexical Retrieval for Exact Termsintermediate
45m
11. Day 11: Combine Dense and Lexical Results with Hybrid Searchintermediate
45m
12. Day 12: Apply Metadata Filters Without Losing Relevant Evidenceintermediate
45m
13. Day 13: Understand, Rewrite, and Route Queriesintermediate
45m
14. Day 14: Rerank Candidates for Relevanceintermediate
45m
15. Day 15: Assemble Context Under a Token Budgetintermediate
45m
16. Day 16: Write Grounded Answers from Retrieved Evidenceadvanced
45m
17. Day 17: Render and Validate Citationsadvanced
45m
18. Day 18: Design Abstention and Clarification Behavioradvanced
45m
19. Day 19: Measure Retrieval with Ranking Metricsadvanced
45m
20. Day 20: Evaluate Answer Quality and Groundednessadvanced
45m
21. Day 21: Diagnose Retrieval, Generation, and Corpus Failuresadvanced
45m
22. Day 22: Secure Retrieval Against Injection and Access Leaksadvanced
45m
23. Day 23: Keep Indexes Fresh and Handle Deletionadvanced
45m
24. Day 24: Handle Tables, Scans, and Multimodal Documentsadvanced
45m
25. Day 25: Route Across Multiple Knowledge Sourcesadvanced
45m
26. Day 26: Scale RAG Architecture and Index Operationsadvanced
45m
27. Day 27: Optimize Latency and Cost by Stageadvanced
45m
28. Day 28: Instrument RAG Traces and Quality Signalsadvanced
45m
29. Day 29: Run Controlled Experiments and Release Changes Safelyadvanced
45m
30. Day 30: Capstone: Ship FieldDesk and PolicyDesk RAGadvanced
45m
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