{"podcast":{"title":"MLOps.community","slug":"mlops-community","podcast_index_feed_id":28679,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/174cb1b8/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://mlops.community","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/3809022/3809022-1612190855115-e91f8b881173f.jpg","author":"Demetrios","episode_count":516,"summary":"Relaxed Conversations around getting AI into production, whatever shape that may come in (agentic, traditional ML, LLMs, Vibes, etc)","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mlops-community"},"episode":{"title":"Real time features, AI search, Agentic similarities","slug":"real-time-features-ai-search-agentic-similarities","published_at":"2025-12-28T16:59:37+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mlops-community/real-time-features-ai-search-agentic-similarities","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mlops-community","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mlops/episodes/Real-time-features--AI-search--Agentic-similarities-e3cravv","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/174cb1b8/podcast/play/113142207/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-11-26%2F415035512-44100-2-018b64f553218.mp3","summary":"Varant Zanoyan is the Co-founder & CEO at Zipline AI, working on building a next-generation AI/ML infrastructure platform that streamlines data pipelines, model deployment, observability, and governance to accelerate enterprise AI development. Nikhil Simha Raprolu is the Co-founder & CTO at Zipline AI, focused on architecting and scaling the company’s AI data platform — extending the open-source Chronon engine into a developer-friendly system that simplifies building and operating production AI applications. Real-time features, AI search, Agentic similarities, Varant Zanoyan & Nikhil Simha Raprolu // MLOps Podcast #354 Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter MLOps Swag/Merch: [https://shop.mlops.community/] And huge thanks to Chroma for hosting us in their recording studio // Abstract Feature stores might be the wrong abstraction. Varant Zanoyan and Nikhil Simha Raprolu explain why Cronon ditched “store-first” thinking and focused on compute, orchestration, and real-time correctness—born at Airbnb, battle-tested with Stripe. If embeddings, agents, and real-time ML feel painful, this episode explains why. // Related Links Website: https://zipline.ai/ ~~~~~~~~ ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ~~~~~~~ Catch all episodes, blogs, newsletters, and more: https://go.mlops.community/TYExplore Join our Slack community [ https://go.mlops.community/slack ] Follow us on X/Twitter [@mlopscommunity]( https://x.com/mlopscommunity ) or [LinkedIn]( https://go.mlops.community/linkedin )] Sign up for the next meetup: [ https://go.mlops.community/register ] MLOps Swag/Merch: [ https://shop.mlops.community/ ] Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: /dpbrinkm Connect with Varant on LinkedIn: /vzanoyan/ Connect with Nikhi…","meta_description":"Varant Zanoyan is the Co-founder & CEO at Zipline AI, working on building a next-generation AI/ML infrastructure platform that streamlines data pipeli…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1767,"processing_state":"failed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mlops-community/episodes/real-time-features-ai-search-agentic-similarities/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mlops-community/real-time-features-ai-search-agentic-similarities.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}