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Observing .NET RAG Systems: OpenTelemetry, Latency, and Cost

OpenTelemetry RAG

Learn OpenTelemetry RAG .NET tracing to connect retrieval, generation, latency, and cost boundaries with privacy-minimizing telemetry and evaluation signals.

Sep 13, 202610 minute read

Golden Evaluation Sets for RAG: Synthetic Data, Human Calibration, and Drift

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Build a trustworthy RAG golden dataset in .NET with versioned evidence, synthetic-case review, human sentinel calibration, and drift-driven refreshes.

Sep 9, 20269 minute read

RAG Evaluation Metrics in .NET: Measure Retrieval and Grounding

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Learn RAG evaluation metrics in .NET with Precision@K, Recall@K, MRR, nDCG, groundedness, and answer relevance for clearer, repeatable offline RAG diagnostics.

Sep 5, 202610 minute read

RAG Query Transformation in .NET: HyDE, Step-Back, and Decomposition

RAG query transformation

Learn RAG query transformation in .NET through baseline retrieval, HyDE, step-back abstraction, decomposition, candidate merging, and retrieval evaluation.

Sep 1, 20268 minute read

Semantic Reranking for RAG in .NET: A Second-Stage Retrieval Model

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See how semantic reranking for RAG in .NET applies Azure AI Search semantic ranking after retrieval, with configuration, scores, captions, and limits.

Aug 28, 20269 minute read

Hybrid Search for RAG in .NET: BM25, Vectors, and Reciprocal Rank Fusion

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Learn how hybrid search RAG .NET combines lexical BM25 and dense vector candidates in one Azure AI Search request with reciprocal rank fusion.

Aug 24, 20269 minute read