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Up-to-Date
Is the data fresh enough for AI systems to operate within acceptable parameters?
The Shift
AI acts on whatever it's given. A pricing agent doesn't wonder if inventory levels are stale. It prices based on the data it has. Freshness must be enforced, not assumed.
Requirements
What must be true about the data itself.
- Freshness SLAs defined per workload
- Freshness measured and tracked
- Stale data blocked from AI consumption
Capabilities
What your infrastructure must support.
Incremental / streaming ingestion
Data updates without full reprocessing
Freshness monitoring
Track and alert on data age against SLAs
Circuit breakers / freshness gates
Block downstream consumption when freshness SLAs are violated
Change data capture (CDC)
Capture and propagate changes in real-time or near-real-time
Dynamic tables / incremental models
Keep derived data fresh without full rebuilds