CourseAI Engineering: The Complete Course · Module 8: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) · part 61 of 105
Part 61 · Module 8: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Lesson 2: Storing help-centre chunks so the right one comes back

21 min read·13 Oct 2026
Module 8 · Lesson 2 · About 40 minutes · Needs: Lesson 1 of this module (chunks) and Module 4, Lesson 2 (embeddings, cosine similarity)

The situation

Lesson 1 turned BrightCart's 12 help-centre articles into clean chunks. Now they need a home. Dev wants them in PostgreSQL, which BrightCart already runs. Marta asks what storage will cost if the help centre grows to a million chunks. Priya has one test she cares about: when a customer writes "The tracking page hasn't updated in four days.", the assistant must find the article "Tracking your order" (HC-04).

This lesson makes four decisions: which model embeds the chunks, where the vectors live, which index searches them, and how to change model later. The tracking ticket is traced through all four.

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