I think it’s safe to say that one of the worst things in Machine Learning is the terminology. The maths and statistics are definitely part of the learning curve, but more than that, it feels like you are learning a new language. In some ways, you are. DataStore and FeatureStore are two of the current buzzwords that people are trying to understand. To be fair, DataStore and FeatureStore feel like family rather than strangers.

Few things in life are certain, least of all roadmaps. There is a saying I love, apart from the one above, which says “if you want to hear God laugh, tell him/her your plans”. Nowhere is that more true than in software development in a startup. There are grand ideas put forward, people often vie with one another, in short, life happens.

May 3rd 2021 – With over 11 man-years of working, and tinkering, long into the night, I am pleased to announce we have hit version 1.0. Following quickly after the release of ClearML 0.17.5, we added the last remaining features we felt 1.0 needed. Namely multi-model support, as well as improved batch operations. With these in place, the choice was clear. The next version released should be the baseline moving forward.