diff --git a/examples/llm/common/web_scraper_module.py b/examples/llm/common/web_scraper_module.py
index ad4d7509ce..6b665b4aff 100644
--- a/examples/llm/common/web_scraper_module.py
+++ b/examples/llm/common/web_scraper_module.py
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ def download_and_split(msg: MessageMeta, text_splitter, link_column, session) ->
         try:
             # Try to get the page content
             response = session.get(url)
-            logger.info(f"RESPONSE TEXT: {response.text}")
 
             if (not response.ok):
                 logger.warning(
@@ -93,8 +92,6 @@ def download_and_split(msg: MessageMeta, text_splitter, link_column, session) ->
                 row_cp.update({"page_content": text})
                 final_rows.append(row_cp)
 
-            logger.info(final_rows)
-
             if isinstance(response, requests_cache.models.response.CachedResponse):
                 logger.debug("Processed cached page: '%s'", url)
             else:
diff --git a/examples/llm/vdb_upload/README.md b/examples/llm/vdb_upload/README.md
index 5b73616aa5..a3c81960a7 100644
--- a/examples/llm/vdb_upload/README.md
+++ b/examples/llm/vdb_upload/README.md
@@ -155,12 +155,31 @@ options and a pipeline to run. For the purposes of this document, we'll focus on
 incorporates various functionalities like handling RSS and filesystem sources, embedding configurations, and vector
 database (VDB) settings.
 
+#### Configuration Balance Considerations
+
+When configuring the Morpheus Pipeline, especially for stages like the RSS source and the Vector Database Upload, it's
+important to balance responsiveness and performance.
+
+- **RSS Source Stage**: The RSS source stage is responsible for yielding webpage links for processing. A larger batch size
+  at this stage can lead to decreased responsiveness, as the subsequent web scraper stage may take a considerable amount of
+  time to retrieve and process all the items in each batch. To ensure a responsive experience for users, it's recommended
+  to configure the RSS source stage with a relatively smaller batch size. This adjustment tends to have minimal impact on
+  overall performance while significantly improving the time to process each batch of links.
+
+- **Vector Database Upload Stage**: At the other end of the pipeline, the Vector Database Upload stage has its own
+  considerations. This stage experiences a significant transaction overhead. To mitigate this, it is advisable to configure
+  this stage with the largest batch size possible. This approach helps in efficiently managing transaction overheads and
+  improves the throughput of the pipeline, especially when dealing with large volumes of data.
+
+Balancing these configurations ensures that the pipeline runs efficiently, with optimized responsiveness at the RSS
+source stage and improved throughput at the Vector Database Upload stage.
+
 ### Run example:
 
 Default example usage, with pre-defined RSS source
 
 ```bash
-python examples/llm/main.py vdb_upload \
+python examples/llm/main.py vdb_upload pipeline \
   --enable_cache \
   --enable_monitors \
   --embedding_model_name all-MiniLM-L6-v2
@@ -171,7 +190,7 @@ Usage with CLI-Defined Sources:
 *Example: Defining an RSS Source via CLI*
 
 ```bash
-python examples/llm/main.py vdb_upload \
+python examples/llm/main.py vdb_upload pipeline \
   --source_type rss \
   --interval_secs 300 \
   --rss_request_timeout_sec 5.0 \
@@ -183,9 +202,9 @@ python examples/llm/main.py vdb_upload \
 *Example: Defining a Filesystem Source via CLI*
 
 ```bash
-python examples/llm/main.py vdb_upload \
+python examples/llm/main.py vdb_upload pipeline \
   --source_type filesystem \
-  --file_source "/path/to/files1" "/path/to/files2" \
+  --file_source "./morpheus/data/scratch/*" \
   --enable_monitors \
   --embedding_model_name all-MiniLM-L6-v2
 ```
@@ -193,9 +212,9 @@ python examples/llm/main.py vdb_upload \
 *Example: Combining RSS and Filesystem Sources via CLI*
 
 ```bash
-python examples/llm/main.py vdb_upload \
-  --source_type rss filesystem \
-  --file_source "/path/to/files" \
+python examples/llm/main.py vdb_upload pipeline \
+  --source_type rss --source_type filesystem \
+  --file_source "./morpheus/data/scratch/*" \
   --interval_secs 600 \
   --enable_cache \
   --enable_monitors \
@@ -224,7 +243,7 @@ vdb_pipeline:
 ```
 
 ```bash
-python examples/llm/main.py vdb_upload \
+python examples/llm/main.py vdb_upload pipeline \
   --vdb_config_path "./vdb_config.yaml"
 ```
 
diff --git a/examples/llm/vdb_upload/common.py b/examples/llm/vdb_upload/common.py
index 330bb3cc70..43a692d5fd 100644
--- a/examples/llm/vdb_upload/common.py
+++ b/examples/llm/vdb_upload/common.py
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ def process_vdb_sources(pipe: Pipeline, config: Config, vdb_source_config: typin
     """
     vdb_sources = []
     for source_info in vdb_source_config:
-        validate_source_config(source_info)  # Assuming this function exists
+        validate_source_config(source_info)
         source_type = source_info['type']
         source_name = source_info['name']
         source_config = source_info['config']
diff --git a/examples/llm/vdb_upload/module/rss_source_pipe.py b/examples/llm/vdb_upload/module/rss_source_pipe.py
index 45a7d646f5..f8c9b6bf05 100644
--- a/examples/llm/vdb_upload/module/rss_source_pipe.py
+++ b/examples/llm/vdb_upload/module/rss_source_pipe.py
@@ -36,13 +36,14 @@
 
 
 class RSSSourceParamContract(BaseModel):
-    batch_size: int = 128
+    batch_size: int = 32
     cache_dir: str = "./.cache/http"
     cooldown_interval_sec: int = 600
     enable_cache: bool = False
     enable_monitor: bool = True
     feed_input: List[str] = Field(default_factory=list)
     interval_sec: int = 600
+    output_batch_size: int = 2048
     request_timeout_sec: float = 2.0
     run_indefinitely: bool = True
     stop_after: int = 0
@@ -125,7 +126,7 @@ def _rss_source_pipe(builder: mrc.Builder):
     schema_transform_definition = SchemaTransformInterface.get_definition("schema_transform", transform_config)
 
     deserialize_definition = DeserializeInterface.get_definition("deserialize",
-                                                                {"batch_size": validated_config.batch_size})
+                                                                 {"batch_size": validated_config.output_batch_size})
 
     monitor_m1 = Monitor.get_definition("monitor_m1", {"description": "RSSSourcePipe RSS Source",
                                                        "silence_monitors": not enable_monitor})
diff --git a/examples/llm/vdb_upload/run.py b/examples/llm/vdb_upload/run.py
index c6b881d018..78395ec718 100644
--- a/examples/llm/vdb_upload/run.py
+++ b/examples/llm/vdb_upload/run.py
@@ -149,7 +149,9 @@ def build_cli_configs(source_type, enable_cache, embedding_size, isolate_embeddi
             'type': 'rss',
             'name': 'rss-cli',
             'config': {
-                "batch_size": pipeline_batch_size,
+                # RSS feeds can take a while to pull, smaller batch sizes allows the pipeline to feel more responsive
+                "batch_size": 32,
+                "output_batch_size": 2048,
                 "cache_dir": "./.cache/http",
                 "cooldown_interval_sec": interval_secs,
                 "enable_cache": enable_cache,
@@ -196,8 +198,11 @@ def build_cli_configs(source_type, enable_cache, embedding_size, isolate_embeddi
 
     # Pipeline Configuration
     cli_pipeline_conf = {
+        "edge_buffer_size": 128,
+        "embedding_size": embedding_size,
         "feature_length": model_fea_length,
         "isolate_embeddings": isolate_embeddings,
+        "max_batch_size": 256,
         "num_threads": num_threads,
         "pipeline_batch_size": pipeline_batch_size,
     }
@@ -311,7 +316,7 @@ def build_final_config(vdb_conf_path, cli_source_conf, cli_embeddings_conf, cli_
         vdb_conf = merge_configs(vdb_pipeline_config.get('vdb', {}), cli_vdb_conf)
 
         # TODO: class labels depends on this, so it should be a pipeline level parameter, not a vdb level parameter
-        pipeline_conf['embedding_size'] = vdb_conf.get('embedding_size')
+        pipeline_conf['embedding_size'] = vdb_conf.get('embedding_size', 384)
 
         final_config.update({
             'embeddings_config': embeddings_conf,
diff --git a/examples/llm/vdb_upload/vdb_config.yaml b/examples/llm/vdb_upload/vdb_config.yaml
index 5fca0894a7..5a5397771d 100644
--- a/examples/llm/vdb_upload/vdb_config.yaml
+++ b/examples/llm/vdb_upload/vdb_config.yaml
@@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ vdb_pipeline:
     feature_length: 512
     max_batch_size: 256
     num_threads: 10
-    pipeline_batch_size: 1024
+    pipeline_batch_size: 128
 
   sources:
     - type: rss
       name: "rss_cve"
       config:
-        batch_size: 128  # Number of rss feeds to process at a time
+        batch_size: 32 # Number of rss feeds per batch
         cache_dir: "./.cache/http"
         cooldown_interval_sec: 600
         enable_cache: False
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ vdb_pipeline:
           - "https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/rss/"
           - "https://intezer.com/feed/"
         interval_sec: 600
+        output_batch_size: 2048 # Number of chunked documents per output batch
         request_timeout_sec: 2.0
         run_indefinitely: true
         stop_after: 0
diff --git a/morpheus/stages/general/linear_modules_stage.py b/morpheus/stages/general/linear_modules_stage.py
index a0a67c081a..c4489f0ae2 100644
--- a/morpheus/stages/general/linear_modules_stage.py
+++ b/morpheus/stages/general/linear_modules_stage.py
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ def _get_cpp_module_node(self, builder: mrc.Builder) -> mrc.SegmentObject:
     def _build_single(self, builder: mrc.Builder, input_node: mrc.SegmentObject) -> mrc.SegmentObject:
         if (isinstance(self._module_config, dict) and
                 "module_id" in self._module_config):
-            module = load_module(self._module_config["module_id"], builder=builder)
+            module = load_module(self._module_config, builder=builder)
         else:
             module = self._module_config.load(builder)
 
diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index d1726eebca..76752f2feb 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2022-2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2022-2024, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
diff --git a/tests/examples/llm/common/test_content_extractor_module.py b/tests/examples/llm/common/test_content_extractor_module.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1548b31970
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/examples/llm/common/test_content_extractor_module.py
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+import os
+import types
+from unittest.mock import patch, MagicMock
+
+import cudf
+import fsspec
+import pytest
+from _utils import TEST_DIRS
+from _utils import assert_results
+
+from morpheus.config import Config
+from morpheus.messages import MessageMeta
+from morpheus.pipeline import LinearPipeline
+from morpheus.stages.general.linear_modules_stage import LinearModulesStage
+from morpheus.stages.input.in_memory_source_stage import InMemorySourceStage
+from morpheus.stages.output.compare_dataframe_stage import CompareDataFrameStage
+
+# Mock dependencies
+file_meta_mock = MagicMock()
+text_converter_mock = MagicMock()
+
+# TODO
+
+@pytest.mark.use_python
+@pytest.mark.use_cudf
+@pytest.mark.import_mod(os.path.join(TEST_DIRS.examples_dir, 'llm/common/content_extractor_module.py'))
+def test_http_client_source_stage_pipe(config: Config, mock_rest_server: str, import_mod: types.ModuleType):
+    url = f"{mock_rest_server}/www/index"
+
+    df = cudf.DataFrame({"link": [url]})
+    df_expected = cudf.DataFrame({"link": [url], "page_content": "website title some paragraph"})
+
+    web_scraper_definition = import_mod.WebScraperInterface.get_definition("web_scraper",
+                                                                           module_config={"web_scraper_config": {
+                                                                               "link_column": "link", "chunk_size": 100,
+                                                                               "enable_cache": False,
+                                                                               "cache_path": "./.cache/http/RSSDownloadStage.sqlite",
+                                                                               "cache_dir": "./.cache/llm/rss"}})
+
+    pipe = LinearPipeline(config)
+    pipe.set_source(InMemorySourceStage(config, [df]))
+    pipe.add_stage(LinearModulesStage(config,
+                                      web_scraper_definition,
+                                      input_type=MessageMeta,
+                                      output_type=MessageMeta,
+                                      input_port_name="input",
+                                      output_port_name="output"))
+    comp_stage = pipe.add_stage(CompareDataFrameStage(config, compare_df=df_expected))
+    pipe.run()
+
+    print(comp_stage.get_messages())
+
+    assert_results(comp_stage.get_results())
+
+
+# 1. Test with Mocked Files and Converters
+def test_parse_files_with_mocked_files():
+    with patch('your_module.get_file_meta', return_value=file_meta_mock), \
+            patch('your_module.TextConverter', return_value=text_converter_mock):
+        open_files = [MagicMock(spec=fsspec.core.OpenFile) for _ in range(5)]
+        expected_data = [{'content': 'mock content'}] * len(open_files)
+        text_converter_mock.convert.return_value = expected_data
+
+        result = your_module.parse_files(open_files)
+
+        assert isinstance(result, MessageMeta)
+        assert len(result.df) == len(open_files)
+        assert result.df.to_dict('records') == expected_data
+
+
+# 2. Test Handling of Exceptions During File Processing
+def test_parse_files_with_exception():
+    with patch('your_module.get_file_meta', side_effect=Exception("Error")), \
+            patch('your_module.logger') as logger_mock:
+        open_files = [MagicMock(spec=fsspec.core.OpenFile) for _ in range(2)]
+
+        result = your_module.parse_files(open_files)
+
+        assert logger_mock.error.called
+        assert isinstance(result, MessageMeta)
+        assert result.df.empty
+
+
+# 3. Test Batch Processing
+def test_parse_files_batch_processing():
+    batch_size = 2
+    open_files = [MagicMock(spec=fsspec.core.OpenFile) for _ in range(5)]
+
+    # Modify your_module.batch_size accordingly
+    your_module.batch_size = batch_size
+
+    result = your_module.parse_files(open_files)
+
+    assert len(result.df) == len(open_files)  # Assuming each file results in one row
+
+
+# 4. Test Processing Different File Types
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("file_type, converter", [("pdf", pdf_converter_mock), ("txt", text_converter_mock)])
+def test_parse_files_different_file_types(file_type, converter):
+    with patch('your_module.get_file_meta', return_value={"file_type": file_type}), \
+            patch(f'your_module.{converter.__class__.__name__}', return_value=converter):
+        open_files = [MagicMock(spec=fsspec.core.OpenFile) for _ in range(2)]
+        converter.convert.return_value = [{'content': 'mock content'}]
+
+        result = your_module.parse_files(open_files)
+
+        assert converter.convert.called
+        assert len(result.df) == len(open_files)
diff --git a/tests/examples/llm/common/test_web_scraper_module.py b/tests/examples/llm/common/test_web_scraper_module.py
index 868afa59db..1502b62f5f 100644
--- a/tests/examples/llm/common/test_web_scraper_module.py
+++ b/tests/examples/llm/common/test_web_scraper_module.py
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
 import os
 import types