Cake for Time-Series Analysis
Analyze, forecast, and monitor time-dependent data using scalable, open-source components. Cake provides a composable AI platform for running time-series pipelines across any cloud or infrastructure.







Overview
Time-series data is everywhere—from sensor logs and financial transactions to user activity and supply chain metrics. But extracting insights from it reliably and at scale takes more than a good model. It requires robust preprocessing, flexible training, repeatable pipelines, and always-on monitoring.
Cake delivers a full time-series analysis stack that’s built on open-source tools and optimized for enterprise AI workflows. You can ingest, clean, and align time-based data using AirByte or DBT, build models with frameworks like Darts, PyTorch, or XGBoost, and deploy workflows using Kubeflow Pipelines. With built-in experiment tracking, observability, and compliance, your time-series pipelines don’t just work—they scale.
And because Cake is modular and cloud agnostic, you can integrate the latest open-source advances while avoiding the cost and rigidity of managed AI platforms.
Key benefits
- Accelerate time-series workflows: Move from data ingestion to model deployment with reusable, pre-integrated tools.
- Use the best open-source models: Train with Darts, Neural Prophet, PyTorch, and more—no black boxes required.
- Deploy across environments: Run pipelines on any cloud, hybrid setup, or edge environment.
- Detect issues before they scale: Monitor real-time data streams and trigger retraining as patterns shift.
- Reduce cost and risk: Avoid vendor lock-in and manage sensitive time-series data on your own infrastructure.
Example use cases
Teams use Cake’s time-series analysis stack to power forecasting, anomaly detection, and system monitoring:
Real-time demand forecasting
Predict spikes or dips in customer activity to optimize staffing, inventory, or compute provisioning.
IoT and telemetry monitoring
Track sensor data across manufacturing, logistics, or energy systems to spot irregularities and trends.
Financial and usage analytics
Model KPIs, revenue, and resource consumption over time to improve planning and scenario testing.
User engagement trend analysis
Track and analyze how user activity evolves over time—identifying growth patterns, seasonality, and behavioral shifts to inform product strategy.
Dynamic pricing optimization
Use historical demand curves and competitor price trends to adjust pricing in real time and maximize revenue or conversion.
Campaign impact measurement
Evaluate how marketing campaigns influence traffic, sales, or engagement over time, controlling for external variables and lag effects.
"Our partnership with Cake has been a clear strategic choice – we're achieving the impact of two to three technical hires with the equivalent investment of half an FTE."

Scott Stafford
Chief Enterprise Architect at Ping
"With Cake we are conservatively saving at least half a million dollars purely on headcount."
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