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Choose Online vs Batch Serving

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Problem

Scenario

You are building a machine learning system that produces predictions used in a user-facing product. Some features change continuously, while others are updated on a schedule, and the team needs to decide how predictions should be computed and delivered.

Question

How would you choose between online and batch serving for a model?

What this tests

  • Choosing between online, batch, and hybrid serving
  • Feature freshness and feature store design
  • Latency and cost tradeoffs
  • Training-serving skew and feature drift awareness
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