Production RAG - Part 8: Evaluation and Operations

Seven posts of machinery, and none of it is trustworthy until you can answer one question: how do you know it works? RAG systems are unusually hostile to intuition here, because a broken one keeps returning fluent, confident, well-cited answers. There is no crash, no 500, no red line on a dashboard. This post covers how you measure the thing, how you operate it safely, and the consolidated list...