Along with caching, partial computations are a critical performance optimization to ensure that we do not need to build (or send) every resource to every proxy on every change. This is discussed more in the Config Serving section.

### Config Serving

Config serving is the layer that actually accepts proxy clients, connected over bidirectional gRPC streams, and serve them the required configuration.

During local development, there is a script that builds the site and checks for any changes, live-reloading:

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```console
$ python ./scripts/docs.py live

<span style="color: green;">[INFO]</span> Serving on http://127.0.0.1:8008
<span style="color: green;">[INFO]</span> Start watching changes
<span style="color: green;">[INFO]</span> Start detecting changes
```

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//
// Kubelets use this API to obtain:
//  1. client certificates to authenticate to kube-apiserver (with the "kubernetes.io/kube-apiserver-client-kubelet" signerName).
//  2. serving certificates for TLS endpoints kube-apiserver can connect to securely (with the "kubernetes.io/kubelet-serving" signerName).
//
// This API can be used to request client certificates to authenticate to kube-apiserver
// (with the "kubernetes.io/kube-apiserver-client" signerName),

        // snapshot timestamp, or some other timestamp later encoded into the metadata.
        // TODO this needs to be repeated here so the merging doesn't interfere with the written metadata
        //  - we'd be much better having a pristine input, and an ongoing metadata for merging instead

        Map<ArtifactRepository, Metadata> previousMetadata = new HashMap<>();
        ArtifactRepository selected = null;

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```console
$ python ./scripts/docs.py live

<span style="color: green;">[INFO]</span> Serving on http://127.0.0.1:8008
<span style="color: green;">[INFO]</span> Start watching changes
<span style="color: green;">[INFO]</span> Start detecting changes
```

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                for (Plugin element : src) {
                    if (element.isInherited() || !element.getExecutions().isEmpty()) {
                        // NOTE: Enforce recursive merge to trigger merging/inheritance logic for executions
                        Plugin plugin = Plugin.newInstance(false);
                        plugin = mergePlugin(plugin, element, sourceDominant, context);

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```console
$ python ./scripts/docs.py live

<span style="color: green;">[INFO]</span> Serving on http://127.0.0.1:8008
<span style="color: green;">[INFO]</span> Start watching changes
<span style="color: green;">[INFO]</span> Start detecting changes
```

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     */
    boolean isProjectBuild();

    /**
     * Specifies whether plugin processing should take place for the built model.
     * This involves merging plugins specified by the {@link org.apache.maven.api.Packaging},
     * configuration expansion (merging configuration defined globally for a given plugin
     * using {@link org.apache.maven.api.model.Plugin#getConfiguration()}

   * and column pair, they will be combined with the specified merging function in encounter order.
   *
   * <p>The returned {@code Collector} will throw a {@code NullPointerException} at collection time
   * if the row, column, value, or merging functions return null on any input.
   *
   * @since 33.2.0 (available since 21.0 in guava-jre)
   */

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```console
$ python ./scripts/docs.py live

<span style="color: green;">[INFO]</span> Serving on http://127.0.0.1:8008
<span style="color: green;">[INFO]</span> Start watching changes
<span style="color: green;">[INFO]</span> Start detecting changes
```

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