
Learn what Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is, why it has become the standard architecture for enterprise AI applications, and how it overcomes the limitations of standalone LLMs.
Explore the challenges of hallucinations, outdated knowledge, and missing business context, and understand why enterprise applications require retrieval-augmented workflows.
Explore the real-world enterprise support assistant that you'll build throughout the course, including its business requirements, knowledge sources, and user workflow.
Understand the complete RAG architecture, including ingestion, vector search, retrieval, prompt orchestration, and response generation before writing any code.
Set up the Spring Boot project, configure the required dependencies, and verify the development environment for building enterprise RAG applications.
Explore the enterprise dataset used throughout the course, including wiki pages, PDFs, support tickets, incident reports, reports, and images.
Install and configure PostgreSQL with pgvector to prepare the vector database that will power semantic search throughout the course.
Understand why enterprise AI systems require ingestion pipelines and how raw business data becomes searchable knowledge.
Create a reusable document model that normalizes content and metadata from different enterprise data sources.
Load Markdown documentation into your RAG system while preserving metadata for retrieval.
Extract text and metadata from PDF documents using Apache PDFBox for enterprise knowledge ingestion.
Read enterprise records from PostgreSQL and convert them into searchable knowledge documents.
Extend the ingestion pipeline to process business reports using the existing PDF ingestion framework.
Extract searchable text from screenshots and scanned documents using Tesseract OCR.
Combine multiple ingestion pipelines into a reusable orchestration workflow for enterprise RAG systems.
Learn why chunking is essential for retrieval quality and how chunk size affects LLM performance.
Build a simple fixed-size chunking strategy and understand when it works well.
Improve retrieval quality by preserving context across adjacent document chunks.
Build semantic-aware chunking that preserves document sections and logical boundaries.
Design chunking strategies specifically for structured business data such as support tickets and incidents.
Combine multiple chunking strategies into a reusable enterprise chunking pipeline.
Learn how embedding models convert enterprise content into vectors for semantic search.
Configure Spring AI and PostgreSQL to build a production-ready vector database.
Store enterprise knowledge as vector embeddings using Spring AI's VectorStore abstraction.
Create a complete indexing workflow that transforms enterprise knowledge into a searchable vector database.
Implement semantic retrieval using Spring AI VectorStore and retrieve relevant enterprise knowledge.
Build a reusable retrieval model that supports scoring, metadata, and future retrieval enhancements.
Expose semantic retrieval through REST endpoints and test the retrieval pipeline with Postman.
Improve retrieval precision using metadata filters such as source type and document category.
Analyze retrieval results and understand the strengths and limitations of semantic search.
Understand why enterprise retrieval often requires more than semantic similarity.
Implement keyword search using PostgreSQL full-text search and GIN indexes.
Combine semantic search and keyword search into a single enterprise retrieval workflow.
Design a unified ranking model that combines scores from multiple retrieval strategies.
Apply business-aware reranking rules to improve retrieval relevance for enterprise applications.
Compare semantic search, keyword search, hybrid retrieval, and reranking using real enterprise queries.
Learn why better queries often produce better retrieval results than changing the retriever itself.
Rewrite user queries into retrieval-friendly search queries using prompt engineering.
Produce multiple search variations from a single user question to increase retrieval coverage.
Execute retrieval across multiple generated queries and merge the best results.
Improve semantic retrieval by generating hypothetical answers before retrieval.
Break complex enterprise questions into smaller retrieval-friendly sub-queries.
Combine multiple retrieval enhancement strategies into a resilient enterprise workflow.
Learn how retrieved enterprise knowledge becomes context for LLM response generation.
Design reusable prompts that combine user questions with retrieved enterprise knowledge.
Integrate retrieval, prompt orchestration, and LLM generation into a complete RAG assistant.
Test whether your assistant answers only from enterprise knowledge instead of hallucinating.
Return source references alongside generated answers to improve trust and transparency.
Optimize prompt structure to generate higher-quality grounded responses.
Learn how enterprise AI teams measure retrieval quality, answer quality, and application health.
Instrument your RAG pipeline to capture performance metrics across retrieval and generation.
Expose production-ready operational metrics using Spring Boot Actuator and Prometheus.
Publish application-specific metrics for retrieval, generation, prompt size, and request latency.
Measure retrieval performance using benchmark queries and expected enterprise knowledge.
Create reusable benchmark datasets to evaluate retrieval quality across multiple scenarios.
Compare multiple retrieval strategies using benchmark-driven evaluation and performance analysis.
Verify that generated answers are supported by retrieved enterprise context.
Learn the governance, security, and compliance requirements of production enterprise AI systems.
Restrict retrieval using business metadata to improve relevance and enforce business rules.
Isolate enterprise knowledge across multiple tenants to prevent data leakage.
Record every RAG interaction to support compliance, governance, and operational auditing.
Protect sensitive enterprise information using PII detection and retrieval filtering.
Improve retrieval quality by prioritizing recently updated enterprise knowledge.
Reduce LLM latency and cost by caching frequently requested enterprise responses.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become the foundation of modern enterprise AI applications. While basic RAG systems can answer questions using your own data, production-grade enterprise systems require far more than semantic search and prompt engineering.
In this course, you'll move beyond traditional RAG implementations and learn how to build intelligent, production-ready retrieval systems using Spring AI, Java, and Spring Boot.
Rather than focusing on isolated concepts, you'll build a complete enterprise AI platform step by step using a realistic support assistant application. Throughout the course, you'll implement advanced retrieval techniques, optimize search quality, evaluate RAG performance, and explore modern retrieval architectures used in enterprise AI systems.
What you'll build
By the end of this course, you'll have built an advanced enterprise RAG application featuring:
Enterprise knowledge ingestion pipelines
Multiple document chunking strategies
Vector embeddings and PostgreSQL with pgvector
Semantic search and Hybrid Retrieval
Retrieval ranking and re-ranking
Query rewriting and Multi-Query Retrieval
Prompt orchestration and grounded response generation
Retrieval evaluation and benchmark frameworks
Spring Boot Actuator and Prometheus monitoring
Metadata filtering and multi-tenant retrieval
Audit logging and PII-aware retrieval
Freshness-aware ranking and response caching
Self-RAG
Corrective RAG
Adaptive RAG
A practical introduction to GraphRAG using Neo4j
Enterprise-ready RAG architecture and best practices
What you'll learn
Throughout the course you'll learn how to:
Build enterprise-grade RAG systems using Spring AI
Design scalable ingestion and indexing pipelines
Improve retrieval quality using Hybrid Search and advanced ranking techniques
Optimize prompts for grounded LLM responses
Evaluate retrieval accuracy and answer quality
Measure latency, benchmark retrieval performance, and monitor production systems
Secure enterprise AI applications with metadata filtering, tenant isolation, audit logging, and PII protection
Implement modern RAG architectures including Self-RAG, Corrective RAG, Adaptive RAG, and GraphRAG
Understand when each retrieval strategy should be used in real-world enterprise applications
Why take this course?
Many RAG tutorials stop after demonstrating vector search and a simple chatbot. Real enterprise AI systems are significantly more sophisticated.
This course focuses on the techniques used to improve retrieval quality, increase answer reliability, monitor production systems, and build scalable enterprise AI applications. Every concept is demonstrated through practical coding using Spring AI, Java, and Spring Boot, with a strong emphasis on architecture, clean design, and production-oriented implementation.
If you've already built a basic RAG application and want to learn what comes next, this course is designed for you.