What is the fundamental difference between eager and lazy evaluation in Dataflow pipelines?

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What is the fundamental difference between eager and lazy evaluation in Dataflow pipelines?

Key points

  • Eager evaluation applies transforms immediately
  • Lazy evaluation postpones execution until the pipeline is constructed
  • Evaluation models impact pipeline execution
  • Data processing timing differs between models

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