Feathr: LinkedIn’s feature store is now available on Azure

By Dustin Ward

This blog post is co-authored by David Stein, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Jinghui Mo, Staff Software Engineer, and Hangfei Lin, Staff Software Engineer, all from Feathr team. Feature store motivation With the advance of AI and machine learning, companies start to use complex machine learning pipelines in various applications, such as recommendation systems, fraud detection,…

Unlock cloud savings on the fly with autoscale on Azure

By Dustin Ward

Unused cloud resources can put an unnecessary drain on your computing budget, and unlike legacy on-premises architectures, there is no need to over-provision compute resources for times of heavy usage. Autoscaling is one of the value levers that can help unlock cost savings for your Azure workloads by automatically scaling up and down the resources…

Optimize your cloud investment with Azure Reservations

By Dustin Ward

Continuous cost optimization can take place at all stages of an Azure workload’s lifecycle, but your Azure subscription provides a very effective benefit to further optimize your investment when you are ready to deploy that workload. For cloud workloads with consistent resource usage, you can buy reserved instances at a significant discount and reduce your…