Overview

Today we are releasing Feast 0.14, which includes a new feature and several important improvements:

1. [Experimental] AWS Lambda feature servers, which allow you to quickly deploy an HTTP server to serve online features on AWS Lambda. GCP Cloud Run and Java feature servers are coming soon! (see docs)
2. Bug fixes around performance. The core online serving path is now significantly faster.
3. Improvements for developer experience. The integration tests are now faster, and temporary tables created during integration tests are immediately dropped after the test.

Experimental features are subject to API changes in the near future as we collect feedback. If you have thoughts, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the Feast team!

👥 Contributors

Thanks to @achals, @adchia, @Agent007, @DvirDukhan, @felixwang9817, @loftiskg, @mavysavydav, @samuel100, @tsotnet, and @ysk24ok for the contributions!

✨ New Features:

• Rename FVProjection member functions to be more clear #1929 (mavysavydav)
• Make serverless alpha feature #1928 (felixwang9817)
• Feast endpoint #1927 (felixwang9817)
• Add location to BigQueryOfflineStoreConfig #1921 (loftiskg)
• Create & teardown Lambda & API Gateway resources for serverless feature server #1900 (tsotnet)
• Hide FeatureViewProjections from user interface & have FeatureViews carry FVProjections that carries the modified info of the FeatureView #1899 (mavysavydav)
• Upload docker image to ECR during feast apply #1877 (felixwang9817)
• Added .with_name method in FeatureView/OnDemandFeatureView classes for name aliasing. FeatureViewProjection will hold this information #1872 (mavysavydav)

🔴 Fixed bugs:

• Update makefile to use pip installed dependencies #1920 (loftiskg)
• Delete tables #1916 (felixwang9817)
• Set a 5 minute limit for redshift statement execution #1915 (achals)
• Use set when parsing repos to prevent duplicates #1913 (achals)
• resolve environment variables in repo config #1909 (samuel100)
• Respect specified ValueTypes for features during materialization #1906 (Agent007)
• Fix issue with feature views being detected as duplicated when imported #1905 (achals)
• Use contextvars to maintain a call stack during the usage calls #1882 (achals)

🔨 Merged pull requests:

• Update concepts/README.md #1926 (ysk24ok)
• Add CI for feature server Docker image #1925 (felixwang9817)
• cache provider in feature store instance #1924 (DvirDukhan)
• Refactor logging and error messages in serverless #1923 (felixwang9817)
• Add a caching step to our github actions #1919 (achals)
• Add provider, offline store, online store, registry to RTD #1918 (felixwang9817)
• Cleanup tests #1901 (felixwang9817)