In Q3 2024, 72% of production RAG pipelines failed to meet p99 latency SLAs for multimodal queries, according to a Datadog survey of 1,200 engineering teams. Most blamed fragmented toolchains for text and image retrieval—until Stable Diffusion 3.0’s embedding API and Llama 4’s 1M-token context window changed the game. This is the definitive guide to building unified multimodal RAG pipelines that c
Introduction It’s a wonderful time to be a developer with rich tools, documentation, and artificial intelligence. Still, at least for now and the foreseeable future, developers must learn to write code, as artificial intelligence tools are not perfect and may produce code that is difficult to integrate into an existing code base. For developers just starting out, they need to learn the basics, t