Production RAG Architecture: Ingestion and Query Pipelines, and Why Minimal RAG Breaks
On a real document set, minimal RAG answered only 20 of 30 questions correctly; most failures come from retrieval, chunking, stale data and unauthorized documents rather than the model. Using Bookstore's Turkish documents we classify the failures, separate the ingestion and query pipelines, and build a query pipeline skeleton with a permission filter and a trace log.
8 Nov 2026
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