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The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

Orchestration for LLM and RAG applications

Nov 16, 2023
Malte Pietsch, co-founder & CTO of Deepset, discusses the importance of orchestration frameworks for LLM applications, the usage patterns of the Haystack framework, and optimizing RAG applications with metadata and knowledge graphs. They also explore the evolution of data engineering pipelines, real-time indexing, and the highlights and features of Haystack 2.0.
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Quick takeaways

  • Haystack 2.0 is being redesigned to offer more customizability and ease of use for building pipelines, introducing loops, branching, and parallel branches for greater flexibility.
  • Haystack 2.0 will address monitoring and robustness by integrating with open telemetry for tracing and providing async execution for scaling OpenAI efficiently, ensuring it can handle scale and latency challenges with ease in production environments.

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Haystack 2.0: Customizability and Ease of Use

Haystack 2.0 is being redesigned to offer more customizability and ease of use for building pipelines. The update will introduce loops, branching, and parallel branches for greater flexibility in creating pipelines. It will also make it easier to create custom nodes, allowing users to connect to specific data sources or implement customized retriever mechanisms. The goal is to provide a framework that is both highly customizable and beginner-friendly, with simpler paths for getting started and a clear progression to advanced usage.

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