Meituan Technology Team

Mar 4, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

How Meituan Waimai Scaled Feature Engineering for Billions of Requests

This article details Meituan Waimai's evolution from a simple feature framework to a sophisticated, configurable platform that handles massive feature production, multi‑task scheduling, dynamic protobuf storage, and a model‑feature description language (MFDL) to enable efficient online retrieval, high‑performance computation, and consistent training‑sample generation for its recommendation, advertising, and search services.