Feature engineering is a crucial part of any ML workflow. At Continual, we believe that it is actually the most impactful part of the ML process and the one that should have the most human intervention applied to it. However, in ML literature, the term is often overloaded among several different topics, and we wanted to provide a bit of guidance for users of Continual in navigating this concept.

In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into the customer churn/retention use case. This should contain everything needed to get started on the use case, and enterprising readers can also try this out for themselves in a free trial of Continual, following the customer churn example in the linked github repository.

Is your model ready for production? It depends on how it’s measured. And measuring it with the right metric can unlock even better performance. Evaluating model performance is a vital step in building effective machine learning models. As you get started on Continual and start building models, understanding evaluation metrics helps to productionize the best performing model for your use case.

Today we’re excited to announce the public beta launch of Continual, the first operational AI platform built specifically for modern data teams and the modern data stack. We’re also announcing our $4M Series Seed, led by Amplify Partners, and joined by Illuminate Ventures, Wayfinder, DCF, and Essence, as well as new partnerships with Snowflake and dbt Labs.

Today we’re pleased to announce Continual Integration for dbt. We believe this is a radical simplification of the machine learning (ML) process for users of dbt and presents a well-defined path that bridges the gap between data analytics and data science. Read on to learn more about this integration and how you can get started.

It’s easy to take continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery/deployment (CD) for granted these days, but these have been transformational concepts that have drastically changed the face of software development over the past thirty years.

While CI/CD is synonymous with modern software development best practices, today’s machine learning (ML) practitioners still lack similar tools and workflows for operating the ML development lifecycle on a level on par with software engineers. For background, follow a brief history of transformational CI/CD concepts and how they’re missing from today’s ML development lifecycle.

In our previous article, The Future of the Modern Data Stack, we examined the motivations of the modern data stack, its current state, and looked optimistically into the future to see where it is headed. If you’re new to the modern data stack, we highly recommend giving the aforementioned article a read. A question we often get from new adopters of the modern data stack is “What tech should we be looking into?”.

A casual stroll through recent tech headlines in the past few years makes two things abundantly clear: investment in AI is at an all-time high, and companies really struggle to get value out of AI technology. At first glance, these ideas seem to be at odds with each other: why consider investing in a field that hasn’t lived up to the hype? If you dig into the details, you’ll notice that a gap exists between the development and production use of AI in many companies.