| Node / Task | Content Hash (SHA) | Parent Digests | State | Duration |
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In traditional data science, caching is often bolted on as an afterthought using arbitrary file paths or timestamps, leading to cache invalidation bugs or silent training on stale data.
By enforcing cryptographic provenance, every task artifact is addressed by:
ContentHash = SHA256(UpstreamArtifactHashes + CodeBytecodeHash + Hyperparameters)
When you alter hyperparameter n_clusters: 5 → 8 in feature_pipeline, its hash changes. The downstream train_xgboost and eval_metrics depend on this hash, so their keys change automatically. Upstream nodes (raw_telecom_data, clean_transform) remain untouched and hit cache in 0.00 seconds.