Fine-Tuning vs RAG — When to Train Your Model and When to Retrieve Instead
Decide between fine-tuning and RAG with decision frameworks, cost/performance tradeoffs, hybrid approaches, and evaluation metrics like RAGAS and G-Eval.
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Decide between fine-tuning and RAG with decision frameworks, cost/performance tradeoffs, hybrid approaches, and evaluation metrics like RAGAS and G-Eval.
Deploy globally on Fly.io without managing Kubernetes. Zero-config deployment, multi-region, Machines API, and cost-effective Postgres hosting.
"The app is slow. Fix it." — said by the founder, with no further context. Is the homepage slow? Checkout? API responses? For which users? On mobile? Under what conditions? Turning vague business pressure into actionable performance work requires measurement before code.
The biggest shifts in 2025-2026 and what''s coming next. A look at the state of backend engineering.
A user submits a GDPR deletion request. You have 30 days to comply. But their data is in the main DB, the analytics DB, S3, Redis, CloudWatch logs, third-party integrations, and three months of database backups. You have 30 days. Start now.