LlamaIndex Workflows + Qdrant Hybrid Search 2026: Build It
Learn LlamaIndex Workflows Qdrant hybrid search in 2026: build production RAG with dense+sparse retrieval, event-driven pipelines, and reranking that...
Chapter 1: Why Hybrid Retrieval Won in 2026: The Context Behind the Stack If you built a retrieval-augmented generation system between 2023 and 2025, you probably built the same thing everyone else did: chunk the documents, embed the chunks, shove the vectors into a store, run a top-k cosine similarity search at query time, and stuff the results into a prompt. It demoed beautifully. It shipped badly. And the post-mortems from thousands of those projects are exactly why the stack described in this guide — LlamaIndex Workflows plus Qdrant hybrid search — became the practitioner default rather than just another...