Beyond RAG
TAG, CAG, MAG and KAG on a self-hosted GPU stack: what each pattern actually does, what I have built, what I measured, and when to use which.
Hi, I'm Iheb Besbes
Senior Tech Lead — DataOps, DevOps & AI. Writing about Data, Cloud, and AI development.
Latest Articles
Deploying ADK Agents
Three ways to deploy a Google ADK agent on GCP with agents-cli: Vertex AI Agent Engine, auto-scaffolded Cloud Run, and a Terraform-managed Cloud Run service.
Athena on AgentCore
Building a read-only Athena assistant with Strands and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: MCP tools, a Lambda tool, skills, and an external model provider when Bedrock quotas get in the way.
Evaluating ADK Agents
Behavioral evaluation of a BigQuery agent built with Google ADK: criteria, scenarios, judges, and the cost lessons that came with them.
RAG on vllm-gke
Adding retrieval-augmented generation to a self-hosted GPU stack on GKE: Qdrant, CPU embeddings, hybrid search, reranking, and an evaluation harness, all measured before being trusted.