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The Cluster

Scheduling, retry & fallback

Lesson 2 of 10

How a request reaches a holder, and what happens when that holder is slow, busy, or offline.

What you'll learn

  • See how a scheduler picks among several nodes that hold a model
  • Understand retry across peers as the cluster's resilience story
  • Know why local execution is the last-resort fallback
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