PyCon India 2025 – Day 2: Talking RAGs to Riches
Day 2 at PyCon India 2025 in Bangalore was especially meaningful for me—not just as an attendee, but as a speaker. I had the opportunity to present my talk, “RAGs to Riches: Efficient Web Chatbot with Async Scraping & Hybrid Re-Ranking,” and engage with an incredibly curious and thoughtful audience.
The session focused on moving Retrieval-Augmented Generation beyond demos into production-ready systems. I spoke about designing efficient RAG pipelines, using asynchronous scraping to keep data fresh, and applying hybrid re-ranking strategies to significantly improve retrieval quality. The discussions around chunking, ranking trade-offs, and real-world failure modes made the session highly interactive.
What stood out most was the quality of questions and conversations after the talk. It was encouraging to see how many developers are actively building RAG systems and thinking deeply about performance, accuracy, and maintainability rather than just model selection.
PyCon Day 2 reinforced why community-driven conferences matter so much—shared learning, honest engineering discussions, and collective growth. Grateful for the opportunity to contribute and excited to keep the conversations going.
