Why can an inference-server patch pass tests and still fail in production?
Unit tests isolate a function or expected state, while a live model server adds process startup, model loading, scheduling, streaming, cleanup and concurrent requests. A change can satisfy the small test while breaking the sequence or resource assumptions that real serving depends on.
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