Featureform
AI
feature store
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
4 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 1 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.17.
Idea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Architecture sits on existing infrastructure rather than adding new infra
From 1 comment
Architecturally this is great. Introducing more infra in an ML stack is a huge pain in the short and long run and I really love that this doesn't do that (or at least, the new…
hadsed on HN
Lighter alternative to Feast
From 1 comment
Looks like a nice lighter alternative to Feast. Feature stores still add a lot of complexity though, if you don’t have real time transformations they probably aren’t needed
mountainriver on HN
Objections
API feels complicated with many unfamiliar objects
From 1 comment
Architecturally this is great. Introducing more infra in an ML stack is a huge pain in the short and long run and I really love that this doesn't do that (or at least, the new…
hadsed on HN
Feature stores add complexity and may not be needed without real-time transformations
From 1 comment
Looks like a nice lighter alternative to Feast. Feature stores still add a lot of complexity though, if you don’t have real time transformations they probably aren’t needed
mountainriver on HN
Mozilla Public License 2.0 seen as unusual
From 1 comment
Project seems to be using a weird license, therefore I'm out.
suyash on HN
Requests
Higher-level, easier API
From 1 comment
Architecturally this is great. Introducing more infra in an ML stack is a huge pain in the short and long run and I really love that this doesn't do that (or at least, the new…
hadsed on HN
Toy example explaining the product
From 1 comment
I’m not quite getting it. Would you be willing to explain it using a toy example?
mrfusion on HN
Questions
How to handle columnar transforms at inference time
From 1 comment
How do you solve the issue with applying columnar transform from feature engineering step as row major transformer at inference time?
whoevercares on HN
Whether it works across Redis and Cassandra teams
From 1 comment
We have one team that uses Redis and another that uses Cassandra, would we be able to use Featureform across both of them? Kind of like a data mesh?
rydog_2099 on HN
Why Go rather than Python
From 1 comment
Quick question. I see it is mostly written in go. Can you talk about why that in contrast to python?
lysecret on HN
What a feature is
From 1 comment
As someone outside the ML world, can anyone tell me what a “feature” is?
cal85 on HN
Alternatives named
Feast
From 2 comments
How does this compare to Feast?
planetsprite on HNHey! One of the maintainers of Feast here, mainly to make some friendly corrections on Feast’s functionality (e.g. Feast does in fact manage transformations) :) Feast currently…
adchia on HN
Tecton
From 1 comment
Hey! One of the maintainers of Feast here, mainly to make some friendly corrections on Feast’s functionality (e.g. Feast does in fact manage transformations) :) Feast currently…
adchia on HN