Powering MLOps: The Story of Tecton's Rift // Matt Bleifer & Mike Eastham // #209

Matt Bleifer is a Group Product Manager at Tecton, where he focuses on the core product experience such as building, testing, and productionizing feature pipelines as scale. Michael Eastham works as a Chief Architect at Tecton, which is a Business Intelligence (BI) Software company with an estimated 100 employees Large Language Models have taken the world by storm. But what are the real use cases? What are the challenges in productionizing them? In this event, you will hear from practitioners about how they are dealing with things such as cost optimization, latency requirements, trust of output, and debugging. You will also get the opportunity to join workshops that will teach you how to set up your use cases and skip over all the headaches. Join the AI in Production Conference on February 15 and 22 here: https://home.mlops.community/home/events/ai-in-production-2024-02-15 ________________________________________________________________________________________ MLOps podcast #209 with Tecton's Group Product Manager, Matt Bleifer and Chief Architect, Mike Eastham, Powering MLOps: The Story of Tecton's Rift brought to us by our Premium Brand Partner,  @tecton8241 . // Abstract Explore the intricacies of feature platforms and their integration in the data realm. Compare traditional predictive machine learning with the integration of Linguistic Model Systems into software applications. Get a glimpse of Rift, a product enhancing data processing with smooth compatibility with various technologies. Join in on the journey of developing Rift, and making Tecton user-friendly, and enjoy Matt's insights and contributions. Wrap it up with lighthearted talks on future collaborations, music, and a touch of nostalgia. // Bio Matt Bleifer Matt Bleifer is a Group Product Manager and an early employee at Tecton. He focuses on core product experiences such as building, testing, and productionizing feature pipelines at scale. Before joining Tecton, he was a Product Manager for Machine Learning at both Twitter and Workday, totaling nearly a decade of working on machine learning platforms. Matt has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Michael Eastham Michael Eastham is the Chief at Tecton. Previously, he was a software engineer at Google, working on Web Search. // MLOps Jobs board https://mlops.pallet.xyz/jobs // MLOps Swag/Merch https://mlops-community.myshopify.com/ // Related Links Website: https://www.tecton.ai/Rift Article: https://www.tecton.ai/blog/unlocking-real-time-ai-for-everyone-with-tecton/ Rift: https://resources.tecton.ai/riftBig Data is Dead blog: https://motherduck.com/blog/big-data-is-dead/ --------------- ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ------------- Join our slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slack Follow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunity Sign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/register Catch all episodes, blogs, newsletters, and more: https://mlops.community/ Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/ Connect with Matt on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattbleifer/Connect with Mike on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeeastham/ Timestamps: [00:00] AI in Production Conference [02:13] Matt & Mike's preferred coffee [02:37] Takeaways [04:50] Matt & Mike's Tecton titles [06:49] Matt's background in tech [09:49] Mike's background in tech [12:53] Tecton refresher [18:23] Feature store to Feature platform [21:06] Current evolution of Tecton [24:41] The understatement [26:12] Duck DB Con [27:54] Rift [30:10] Kafka Flink [33:36] What is large in aggregations? [38:09] Big Data is Dead! [41:14] Principles of creating Rift [45:54] The battle between Simplicity and Flexibility [47:28] Is he serious? Segment [50:54] Can you get any more hype Segment [57:10] What are you excited about? [1:02:45] Wrap up