RAG Evaluation: What We Measure Before Production

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

Context & who this is for

Teams that document trade-offs before coding waste fewer sprints when requirements shift mid-build.

Architecture decisions that age well

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

Implementation checklist

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

Failure modes we see in the wild

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

Measurement & rollout

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

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