Technical design

After identifying the required capabilities, the technical work begins. For each capability, you must define a technical design that translates the capability description into technical components within the limits of your architecture principles. In this book, we believe in practical applications over theory, so we’ve prepared a bunch of technical designs for common capabilities that will help you get started with the right technical architecture.

Document ingestion and storage

Google Cloud comes with many components that will help you create an architecture for data ingestion and storage. Most (unstructured) data starts from Google’s Cloud Storage, while most structured data lives within BigQuery. You can also scrape data directly from websites after domain authentication. Vertex AI Agent Builder is a managed data store for vector data and metadata that can use LLMs to answer user questions and serve as a tool for LangChain agents. Vertex AI Agent...