A feature store provides a single pane of glass for sharing all available features across the organization. When a data scientist starts a new project, he or she can go to this catalog and easily find the features they are looking for. But a feature store is not only a data layer; it is also a data transformation service enabling users to manipulate raw data and store it as features ready to be used by any machine learning model.

Operationalizing AI pipelines is notoriously complex. For deep learning applications, the challenge is even greater, due to the complexities of the types of data involved. Without a holistic view of the pipeline, operationalization can take months, and will require many data science and engineering resources. In this blog post, I'll show you how to move deep learning pipelines from the research environment to production, with minimal effort and without a single line of code.

Last time in this blog series, we provided an overview of how to leverage the Iguazio Feature Store with Azure ML in part 1. We built out a training workflow that leveraged Iguazio and Azure, trained several models via Azure's AutoML using the data from Iguazio's feature store in part 2. Finally, we downloaded the best models back to Iguazio and logged them using the experiment tracking hooks in part 3. In this final blog, we will.

In part one and two, we introduced Iguazio's feature store and discussed the benefits of using one in the ML workflow. Additionally, we ingested and transformed the data that we will be using to train our model. In this blog, we will do the following.

Last time, we discussed why organizations might require the functionality of a feature store like Iguazio's. In this blog, we will actually get into the project and cover the following.

In this series of blog posts, we will showcase an end-to-end hybrid cloud ML workflow using the Iguazio MLOps Platform & Feature Store combined with Azure ML. This blog will be more of an overview of the solution and the types of problems it solves, while the next parts will be a technical deep dive into each step of the process.

In an era where the passage of time seems to have changed somehow, it definitely feels strange to already be reflecting on another year gone by. It’s a cliche for a reason–the world definitely feels like it’s moving faster than ever, and in some completely unexpected directions. Sometimes it feels like we’re living in a time lapse when I consider the pace of technological progress I’ve witnessed in just a year.

After a year packed with one machine learning and data science event after another, it’s clear that there are a few different definitions of the term ‘MLOps’ floating around. One convention uses MLOps to mean the cycle of training an AI model: preparing the data, evaluating, and training the model. This iterative or interactive model often includes AutoML capabilities, and what happens outside the scope of the trained model is not included in this definition.