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How do CAP and consistency tradeoffs apply to an ML feature store and online serving?

Classic distributed-systems tradeoffs show up in ML infra with an ML twist: stale features and eventually-consistent reads have model-accuracy consequences, not just correctness ones. Here is how to reason about it.

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Classic distributed-systems tradeoffs show up in ML infra with an ML twist: stale features and eventually-consistent reads have model-accuracy consequences, not just correctness ones. Here is how to reason about it.

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