Hands-on Tutorial: Build a RAG-Powered Document Assistant in 10 Minutes with Dify and Milvus
Apr 28, 2025Ruben Winastwan

Summary
This post demonstrates a practical implementation of a RAG-powered document assistant by integrating Milvus with Dify. It details the steps involved in setting up Dify and Milvus containers, configuring OpenAI API keys, inserting documents into a knowledge base (which involves chunking and embedding), and creating the RAG application. The post highlights how Milvus acts as the vector database for storing document embeddings, enabling efficient similarity search for retrieval-augmented generation.
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