Warning: This is an experimental feature. It's intended for early testing and feedback, and could change without warnings in future releases.
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To enable this feature, run feast alpha enable python_feature_server
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The local feature server is an HTTP endpoint that serves features with JSON I/O. This enables users to get features from Feast using any programming language that can make HTTP requests. A remote feature server on AWS Lambda is also available. A remote feature server on GCP Cloud Run is currently being developed.
There is a new CLI command that starts the server: feast serve. By default Feast uses port 6566; the port be overridden by a --port flag.
Here's the local feature server usage example with the local template:
$ feast init feature_repo
Creating a new Feast repository in /home/tsotne/feast/feature_repo.
$ cd feature_repo
$ feast apply
Registered entity driver_id
Registered feature view driver_hourly_stats
Deploying infrastructure for driver_hourly_stats
$ feast materialize-incremental $(date +%Y-%m-%d)
Materializing 1 feature views to 2021-09-09 17:00:00-07:00 into the sqlite online store.
driver_hourly_stats from 2021-09-09 16:51:08-07:00 to 2021-09-09 17:00:00-07:00:
100%|████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 5/5 [00:00<00:00, 295.24it/s]
$ feast serve
This is an experimental feature. It's intended for early testing and feedback, and could change without warnings in future releases.
INFO: Started server process [8889]
09/10/2021 10:42:11 AM INFO:Started server process [8889]
INFO: Waiting for application startup.
09/10/2021 10:42:11 AM INFO:Waiting for application startup.
INFO: Application startup complete.
09/10/2021 10:42:11 AM INFO:Application startup complete.
INFO: Uvicorn running on http://127.0.0.1:6566 (Press CTRL+C to quit)
09/10/2021 10:42:11 AM INFO:Uvicorn running on http://127.0.0.1:6566 (Press CTRL+C to quit)After the server starts, we can execute cURL commands from another terminal tab:
$ curl -X POST \
"http://localhost:6566/get-online-features" \
-d '{
"features": [
"driver_hourly_stats:conv_rate",
"driver_hourly_stats:acc_rate",
"driver_hourly_stats:avg_daily_trips"
],
"entities": {
"driver_id": [1001, 1002, 1003]
}
}' | jq
{
"field_values": [
{
"fields": {
"driver_id": 1001,
"conv_rate": 0.07427442818880081,
"avg_daily_trips": 140,
"acc_rate": 0.8625795245170593
},
"statuses": {
"conv_rate": "PRESENT",
"acc_rate": "PRESENT",
"driver_id": "PRESENT",
"avg_daily_trips": "PRESENT"
}
},
{
"fields": {
"avg_daily_trips": 646,
"acc_rate": 0.8026317954063416,
"conv_rate": 0.41487279534339905,
"driver_id": 1002
},
"statuses": {
"driver_id": "PRESENT",
"avg_daily_trips": "PRESENT",
"conv_rate": "PRESENT",
"acc_rate": "PRESENT"
}
},
{
"fields": {
"avg_daily_trips": 671,
"conv_rate": 0.4033895432949066,
"driver_id": 1003,
"acc_rate": 0.06059994176030159
},
"statuses": {
"driver_id": "PRESENT",
"conv_rate": "PRESENT",
"avg_daily_trips": "PRESENT",
"acc_rate": "PRESENT"
}
}
]
}It's also possible to specify a feature service name instead of the list of features:
curl -X POST \
"http://localhost:6566/get-online-features" \
-d '{
"feature_service": <feature-service-name>,
"entities": {
"driver_id": [1001, 1002, 1003]
}
}' | jq