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A RAG chunking strategy decides how source documents are split into the chunks that feed embedding and vector retrieval.

Guides • Oct 17, 2026 •11 min read

RAG Chunking Strategy, Decided by a 50-Pair Eval

Stop copying 512-token defaults. Build a small retrieval eval on your own corpus and let decision gates and cost math pick your RAG chunking strategy.

#rag #chunking +3

BM25, dense, and SPLADE retrieval baselines compared for production RAG, each with distinct tradeoffs in memory footprint, query latency, and failure behavior.

Engineering • Jul 27, 2026 •13 min read

BM25 vs Dense Retrieval and SPLADE for Production RAG

BM25 vs dense retrieval on a consumer GPU. Each baseline wins one RAG scenario and breaks another. Match your index to memory, latency, and failure mode.

#rag-retrieval #bm25 +4