This workshop was delivered as part of my work with Big Data Boutique.

Had a fantastic time delivering an Advanced RAG Workshop at Astrix Security! This was a deep dive into building production-grade LLM applications with a focus on Retrieval-Augmented Generation techniques.

What We Covered

The workshop combined theory with hands-on experimentation, focusing on practical techniques teams can implement immediately:

• Understanding embedding models and their trade-offs
• Semantic vs. keyword search: when to use what
• Vector database options and considerations
• Chunking strategies beyond naive splitting
• Hybrid search combining multiple retrieval methods
• Experimenting with AWS Knowledgebase on real datasets

Thank You!

Big thanks to the Astrix Security team for hosting such an engaged and curious group! Looking forward to seeing what the team builds with these techniques!

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