Why this matters
Private RAG projects succeed or fail on ingestion quality, access control and evaluation—not on choosing a fashionable vector database.
The practical takeaways
- Model documents and permissions together.
- Evaluate retrieval separately from generation.
- Plan re-indexing and deletion as regular operations.
How to apply it
Start with one measurable workflow, define the failure boundary, and publish the result with enough context for another builder to reproduce the decision. The goal is not to chase every announcement; it is to turn useful changes into better products, skills and deployment practice.
Editorial note
This is an original FDE editorial synthesis based on the linked source. It is not a translation or reproduction of the source article.