Are there any supported patterns for on-the-fly caching?
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Description
Hi,
Are there any supported patterns for on-the-fly caching?
Say you have an expensive object you're computing based on the data in input. Adding it to the MDS dataset is suboptimal when you're experimenting with many things at once.
Alternative is to compute if present the first time the object is requested and cache it to disk, then read from there. Are there any gotchas one would need to be aware of when doing this? Or should it just work as I expect?
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The issue does not name a file, test, or entry point. First clarify whether the expected outcome is documentation of a supported caching pattern or a library change, then inspect the dataset and caching APIs; done means the supported behavior, gotchas, and any required implementation scope are documented.
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- Tech stack
- python
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- data-engineering
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
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- Needs clarification
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