Do new writes get dispatched? I'm trying to reason about subproblem cache staleness under write load but reading the code it doesn't seem like writes are dispatched, implying the cache for an existing triple won't be invalidated. I know we can invalidate the stale cache by passing the resulting zookie but wanted to make sure I understood the expected behavior.

writes are not dispatched. cache for a tuple will not be invalidated, that's why we define a quantization window of max allowed staleness. The zookie does not invalidate the cache, it just tells the server that maximum staleness it it willing to accept (at least as fresh as the timestamp of this zookie)

Makes sense, thank you for the quick reply.