Production RAG Architecture Blueprint: Retrieval-Augmented Generation at Scale
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Production CharacteristicsProduction ReadyObservability FirstKubernetes NativeSecurity HardenedLatency CriticalEnterprise Pattern
RAG systems fail in production for predictable reasons: retrieval quality degrades silently, embedding drift goes undetected, LLM latency spikes under load, and observability is bolted on after incidents. This blueprint addresses all four with a complete operational architecture.