Systems That Last.

Strength doesn't need to be loud. It needs to be steady.

Powering Models: Feature Engineering, Part 2

Getting features to the model at inference time: passing them in the request or fetching them from a store. Both choices have consequences.

Part 2 of 2. How production services make features available to models at inference time: the tradeoffs between request-time feature passing and online feature store retrieval, with patterns from real systems.