Releasesby IbisDeclarative Feature Store (General availability)
GA3 days agoUnverifiedAdded Oct 22, 2026
The Declarative Feature Store workflow is now generally available. Define your feature store resources (entities, data sources, feature views, and feature groups) as version-controlled YAML or Python specs, then preview and deploy them with the snow feature CLI using a plan-and-apply workflow.
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