Keeping the index fresh

Content changes and stale chunks keep getting retrieved. Incremental reindexing driven by content events beats rebuilding everything nightly.

Lesson 2.35m 58sAdvanced6.8k students

Lesson length

5:58

What this lesson covers

  • Reindex incrementally on content change events
  • Delete chunks whose source no longer exists
  • Version the index so a bad run can be rolled back

This lesson sits in Ingestion and Indexing, part of Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Scratch. It assumes what came before it and leads directly into the next lesson in the module.

In this lesson you will

  • Reindex incrementally on content change events
  • Delete chunks whose source no longer exists
  • Version the index so a bad run can be rolled back

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