The Data Stack Show

25: MLOps and Feature Stores with Willem Pienaar from Tecton

Episode Notes

On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas is joined by Willem Pienaar, tech lead at Tecton to discuss machine learning, features and feature stores.

Highlights from this week’s episode include:

• Willem Pienaar's background in South Africa and southeast Asia and from Goject to Tecton (1:58)
• Tecton was founded by the builders of Uber's Michaelangelo (6:37)
• Defining features and their life cycles (10:05)
• Comparing a feature store to a database (16:40)
• Data architecture in a feature store (26:16)
• How feature stores evolve as a company expands (30:12)
• Main touchpoints between the feature and the data infrastructure (37:59)
• How Tecton manages productizing complex architectures (41:44)
• How Feast and Tecton work together (45:12)
• Tecton impressing VCs and preparing for a competitive, emerging market (48:14)

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