| Guangtong Bai | Staff Software Engineer, Product ML Infrastructure*; Shantam Shorewala | Software Engineer II, Product ML Infrastructure*; Chi Zhang | Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform*; Neha Upadhyay | Software Engineer II, AI Platform*; Haoyang Li | Director, Product ML Infrastructure *These authors contributed equally to this article. Background At Pinterest, our online ML serving systems employ a root-leaf architecture. On a high level, the architecture looks as follows: Figure 1: Root-leaf Architecture of Online ML Serving Systems at Pinterest In the diagram, “Client Service” is respon |