Setting Up Your First RAG Prototype — Roadmap Step & Resources
Getting a minimal retrieval-and-generate pipeline running end to end
- Level: beginner
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) & Vector Databases
Before this step
Interview questions
- When would you reach for RAG instead of just putting everything in the context window?
Study resources
- Hugging Face Documentation (Article) — Official documentation covering embedding models and retrieval-related libraries. Background reading/viewing for: Setting Up Your First RAG Prototype.
- Pinecone Learning Center (Article) — A vector database provider's educational content on RAG architecture. Relevant to: Setting Up Your First RAG Prototype.
Part of
- Prompt Engineering Fundamentals — section
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) & Vector Databases roadmap — the full learning path