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From prototype to production β architect, deploy, and run graph-powered RAG at scale. A playbook that turns engineers into architects who ship.
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The complete knowledge graph arsenal β GraphRAG pipelines, Neo4j deployment, and monitoring. 330 pages of production-tested guides plus infrastructure.
Ship a hybrid RAG system that combines Neo4j graph traversal with vector search β 89% accuracy on multi-hop questions vs 62% with vector-only.
You built a GraphRAG prototype. It answered three hand-picked questions perfectly. Your CTO saw the demo and said "ship it."
Now you're staring at a list of questions nobody prepared you for:
This playbook answers every one of those questions β and the fifty more you haven't thought of yet. It's based on real production deployments, not blog posts.
You've built a RAG prototype that works on three example questions. Now you need to ship it. You're staring down Neo4j clustering decisions, GPU vs. CPU serving tradeoffs, caching strategies you've never designed, and a CTO who wants to know the latency budget. Every blog post covers the happy path β none of them tell you what breaks at 10K QPS or how to debug a retrieval pipeline when recall drops overnight.
In 2026, there's a new dimension: sovereignty. The EU AI Act and Germany's Digital Sovereignty Act create regulatory pressure to keep LLM inference local. If your GraphRAG pipeline sends queries to a cloud API, your graph data β entities, relationships, business logic β all leave your network. This playbook now covers sovereign AI deployment as a first-class architecture pattern.
After reading this guide, you'll have the battle-tested architecture decisions, deployment patterns, and operational playbook to take a GraphRAG system from prototype to production β and the confidence to defend every tradeoff you make. This is what works after shipping GraphRAG under real traffic.
Senior engineers and architects who already understand RAG basics and need to build production-grade GraphRAG systems. This is not an introduction β it's a battle-tested playbook for going live and staying live.
You'll be the person on your team who knows how to ship GraphRAG β not just demo it. Production architecture decisions, operational runbooks, cost projections, and a system that stays up under real traffic. That's the difference between a prototype and a product, and this playbook is the bridge.
The query router decision tree from Chapter 1 is available as a free preview β. If the decision tree and hybrid retrieval patterns make sense for your pipeline, the full guide delivers the rest of the system.
If you're still deciding, scroll back up to the benchmark table. 89% vs 62% on multi-hop questions β that's the number that matters.