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Real time features, AI search, Agentic similarities

28 December 2025 29:27 Demetrios

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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


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// 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.


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