Reflecting on a Year of Innovation and Looking Ahead

To the Feldera community,

As the year comes to a close, I want to reflect on Feldera’s journey throughout 2024 and share a preview of what’s next.

A Year in Review

Over the last year, Feldera received nearly one hundred feature launches—a staggering output for our nimble engineering team. We released our multi-tenant BYOC Enterprise offering, a public cloud sandbox, a high-performance storage layer, fault-tolerant pipelines, recursive SQL, UDFs, time-series capabilities, ad-hoc queries, 50+ new SQL functions, custom types, myriad connectors (including Delta Table and Iceberg), support for various data formats, and so much more. Several of these features broke new ground in the state of the art of incremental computation and could each stand alone as a research paper.

Feldera has evolved into a powerful platform with a smooth developer experience. We’ve built a robust UI, CLI, Python SDK, REST APIs, and user-oriented documentation, all rapidly iterated on through a tight feedback loop with our users. In turn, our users continue to create tremendous value for their own customers, achieving significantly faster time to insight, lower TCO, and quicker time to market. Our focus on performance paid off well, with users reporting millions of events per second on a single node per pipeline.

We continue to be impressed by what our customers accomplish with Feldera across a wide range of use cases and industry verticals. A consistent theme has emerged: our users see us not just as a vendor, but as a trusted partner in their data modernization journey, thanks to our expertise and relentless focus on customer success.

This year, we also welcomed Fred, our magical little mascot. We published 44 blog posts with technically deep content—and there’s plenty more on the way.

Overall, we’re well positioned to meet our 2025 goals.

The 2025 Roadmap: To Infinity and Beyond

Our big theme for 2025 is to push the extremes of scalability. While we’re pleased with our latency and throughput, we want to expand the working set sizes Feldera can handle. We’re setting our sights on supporting 100TB+ internal states, so expect updates from our team around object storage, open-table formats, and diskless designs. We also intend to scale the control plane to handle tens of thousands of pipelines.

We're also exploring new form factors for deployment. Our scalable BYOC Enterprise offering already lets customers deploy Feldera entirely within their environments, with both the control and data planes secured behind their own perimeters. We’re exploring other flexible form factors, so users can embed incremental compute pipelines within their application architectures—whether as “just a binary” or lightweight sidecars running alongside existing applications.

If these themes excite you, stay tuned by subscribing to our newsletter below or reach out to me at lalith at feldera.com. I'd love to hear from you.

Happy Holidays!

For me personally, it’s been wonderful to look back on the year, reviewing every single release and seeing how far we’ve come as a team. I couldn’t be more excited for everything we have planned! We’ll take a moment to celebrate our wins and enjoy a well-deserved break over the holidays, and we look forward to starting the new year strong.

Thanks for being part of our journey. From everyone at the Feldera team, we wish you and your loved ones a wonderful holiday season!

Cheers,

Lalith