A cascade has no end worth recording; a run does. Parameters go in, the graph
executes until it drains, and the result is kept — which is what an ML
experiment is and what a CI-style job is, so both are one entity.
Each run gets a state backend namespaced to itself, so two runs of one flow
cannot overwrite each other's messages; that is a constructor argument rather
than a change to the pipeline, because every key the engine keeps already goes
through the state backend. Its record is written by the driver thread rather
than folded off the event bus, which drops what it cannot keep up with. Its
own Redis stream wakes an engine up, and from the claim onwards the database
row is the truth: redelivering hours of training because an acknowledgement
was late is not recovery, so a stale lease is what marks a run whose engine
died.
Flows gain mode: batch, which are built and validated but never activated, and
nodes gain a device label for the worker that must run them.
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