--- title: Build an End-to-End RAG Pipeline for LLM Applications description: A comprehensive walkthrough of building an end-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline. Covers all major stages: document ingestion, text chunking... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/build-an-end-to-end-rag-pipeline-for-llm-applications-qvdk8tsyf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Build an End-to-End RAG Pipeline for LLM Applications | daily.dev og:description: A comprehensive walkthrough of building an end-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline. Covers all major stages: document ingestion, text chunking... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/build-an-end-to-end-rag-pipeline-for-llm-applications-qvdk8tsyf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Qvdk8TSyF.png og:image:alt: Build an End-to-End RAG Pipeline for LLM Applications og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Build an End-to-End RAG Pipeline for LLM Applications **[DigitalOcean Community](https://daily.dev/sources/do_community)** · 15 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A comprehensive walkthrough of building an end-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline. Covers all major stages: document ingestion, text chunking strategies (200–500 tokens with overlap), embedding generation using models like all-MiniLM-L6-v2, vector database storage and similarity search, and LLM-based response generation. Includes a working Python implementation using LangChain, ChromaDB, and HuggingFace embeddings. Also addresses evaluation metrics (retrieval precision/recall, generation quality), production challenges (latency, cost, scaling), optimization techniques (caching, re-ranking, top-k limiting), and a comparison of RAG vs. fine-tuning. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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