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Implementation

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Primary Sources

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Tables

Table sources are used directly via a view. Featureform will never write to a primary source.

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Transformation Sources

SQL transformations are used to create a view. By default, those views are materialized and updated according to the schedule parameter. Deprecated transformations are converted to un-materialized views to save storage space.

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Offline to Inference Store Materialization

When a feature is registered, Featureform creates an internal transformation to get the newest value of every feature and its associated entity. A Kubernetes job is then kicked off to sync this up with the Inference store.

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Training Set Generation

Every registered feature and label is associated with a view table. That view contains three columns, the entity, value, and timestamp. When a training set is registered, it is created as a materialized view via a JOIN on the corresponding label and feature views.

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Configuration

First we have to add a declarative BigQuery configuration in Python.
bigquery_config.py
import featureform as ff

bigquery = ff.register_bigquery(
    name="bigquery-quickstart",
    description="A BigQuery deployment we created for the Featureform quickstart",
    project_id="",
    dataset_id="",
    credentials_path=""
)
Once our config file is complete, we can apply it to our Featureform deployment 
featureform apply bigquery_config.py --host $FEATUREFORM_HOST
We can re-verify that the provider is created by checking the Providers tab of the Feature Registry.

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Mutable Configuration Fields

  • description
  • credentials