Tecton and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) partner to accelerate the creation of ML-driven applications. This collaboration offers a cohesive ML solution for data scientists and engineers, combining Tecton’s powerful feature engineering capabilities for production ML with Google’s robust cloud computing services.
Key Capabilities
Scalable
Efficiently utilizes fast and scalable Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data processing services to handle hundreds of thousands of Queries Per Second (QPS) at median latencies of just 5 milliseconds.
Flexible
Seamlessly integrates with GCP infrastructure, catering to batch, streaming, and real-time data sources, including BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, BigTable, and Google Cloud PubSub. Supports diverse notebook environments and integrates with model serving layers like Vertex AI.
Streamlined
Promotes collaboration and feature reuse, ensuring quick time to value and enabling continuous improvement in intricate production environments.
Secure & Compliant
Tecton provides robust security with SSO integration, access controls, and complies with SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR standards in a SaaS model.
Key Challenges for Production ML
Great models need great features. High-quality ML features are pivotal for the success of various machine learning applications, from detecting fraudulent transactions to making personalized recommendations. Creating and managing the necessary production-grade data pipelines is complex. As demands for data processing, transformation, training and serving availability, performance monitoring, cost-efficiency, scalability, and high performance grow exponentially, data teams struggle to tie together these services to quickly and efficiently deploy production ML applications. The introduction of real-time data exacerbates this complexity.
Common challenges include:
- deployment delays,
- exponential cost structures,
- prediction inaccuracies, and
- isolated data pipelines that inhibit collaboration, flexible iteration traceability, and scalability.
Solution Overview
Adopting Tecton alongside Google Cloud Platform’s (GCP) powerful suite presents a compelling solution for organizations seeking to build and manage ML applications effectively. While GCP’s advanced infrastructures like BigQuery and DataProc form the backbone of many data clouds, Tecton fills the gap, providing an efficient interface to rapidly transform raw data into high-quality ML features for production models.
This combination accelerates time-to-value through rapid deployment of ML pipelines and swift model iterations. It maximizes performance and reliability by enhancing model accuracy and serving features on a massive scale at low latency. With Tecton, organizations can control costs by better managing overhead infrastructure and optimizing cloud spending. Additionally, Tecton future-proofs any ML stack, preparing organizations for the inevitable shift towards real-time data and emerging generative AI use cases that demand fresh, high-quality ML features.
A Complete Feature Platform: Tecton goes beyond being a simple feature store, offering a comprehensive platform that automates the entire lifecycle of ML features. With a simplified, declarative framework, teams can define features using SQL, Python, or Spark. This accelerates the process of building and managing production-grade features, integrating machine learning decision-making seamlessly into applications. Tecton stores and serves features for real-time inference and offline training, manages features as code, orchestrates raw data transformation into production-ready features, and monitors feature data quality and operational service levels. This holistic approach streamlines ML feature management, enhancing efficiency and productivity.
A Platform Built for the Enterprise: Tecton provides an enterprise-ready solution for machine learning data management, offering robust performance, strong security measures, and multi-cloud capabilities. It has the scalability to handle over 100,000 requests per second with median latencies of around 5ms while ensuring consistent uptime and reliability. Tecton secures data with comprehensive access controls, and SSO integration, all while being SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and supporting GDPR compliance. With its multi-cloud capabilities, Tecton seamlessly unifies ML data operations across various cloud platforms, thereby improving efficiency and interoperability.
How it Works
Tecton and GCP work together to make machine learning features and model management more efficient. Tecton’s feature engineering capabilities help define and manage features in a scalable and automated way, ultimately allowing for faster and more efficient model training and deployment. Together with GCP’s leading services for building and running ML applications, including Vertex AI, Kubernetes, and TensorFlow, and advanced data infrastructure like BigQuery and DataProc, organizations can simplify the process of preparing, managing, and serving data for machine learning models, enabling them to make more accurate predictions and encourage data-driven decision making.
How It Integrates
Underneath the hood, Tecton seamlessly integrates with existing GCP infrastructure, accommodating batch, streaming, and real-time sources such as BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, Apache Kafka, and Google Cloud PubSub. It leverages fast, scalable, and cost-effective GCP data processing services like Dataproc or Python for data handling. The platform stores feature data offline using Google Cloud Storage, and offers low-latency online storage via Redis Enterprise or BigTable. Finally, Tecton is not only compatible with preferred notebook environments, including Vertex, or Jupyter, for feature building and training dataset generation, but it also connects seamlessly with preferred model serving layers, including Vertex AI.