RAG Evaluation: What We Measure Before Production — Field Notes

Answer first: RAG Evaluation: What We Measure Before Production — Field Notes — a practical field guide from Shriram IT Ventures for engineering and product leads who need decisions, not decks.

Context & who this is for

Instrument the happy path and the exception path — silent failures are what turn launches into fire drills.

Architecture decisions that age well

Prefer boring technology where the risk is operational, and reserve novelty for the actual product wedge.

Implementation checklist

Ship a thin vertical slice, measure, then widen. Big-bang rewrites rarely survive contact with production.

Failure modes we see in the wild

Skip the buzzwords. For RAG Evaluation: What We Measure Before Production — Field Notes, the constraint that matters is usually data ownership, not feature count.

Measurement & rollout

Instrument the happy path and the exception path — silent failures are what turn launches into fire drills.

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