Feast with Willem Pienaar

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Willem Pienaar (@willpienaar) talk about Feast, the open-source feature store for machine learning. Feature stores act as a bridge between models and data, and allow data scientists to ship features into production without the need for engineers. Willem co-created Feast at Gojek, and later teamed up with the folks at Tecton to back the project.

In this episode we discuss:

• The value of feature stores in MLOps

• What happens when you open-source too early

• Why most open-source code has nothing to hide

• Bringing an open-source project to an existing company

• Good and bad use cases for a feature store

Links:

• Feast

• Tecton

• Turing

• Merlin

• Kubeflow

• apply() Conference

People mentioned:

• Mike Del Balso

• Kevin Stumpf (@kevinmstumpf)

• Ajey Gore (@AjeyGore)

• Demetrios Brinkmann (@Dpbrinkm)

• Wes McKinney (@wesmckinn)

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• Flyte with Ketan Umare

• Great Expectations with Abe Gong and Kyle Eaton