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What this PR does / why we need it:

Profiling indicates that a large amount of time is spent in creating features views from the protobuf representations for every call to the online feature retrieval interfaces.

In our testing setup where features are retrieved from 24 features views, 80%+ of the time spent in Feast excluding networking operations is due to the above. On my local machine (M2 Mac), this time can exceed 15ms.

This PR introduces a decorator that caches the results of get_any_feature_view, which will remove the need to call FeatureView.from_proto in many cases when retrieving online features.

In principle, the decorator could also be used for other functions such as get_feature_view.

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

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Signed-off-by: Sebastian Jäger <[email protected]>
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is there a reason this would be preferred to functools.cache or functools.lru_cache?

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The standard lru cache will not be able to do the caching out of the box, since Registry is an unhashable type. Further, with the lru cache, we can only define a max size, which might not necessarily be sufficient if it is exceeded by the number of feature views. Here we also only keep the cache for the last seen registry/version and discard it otherwise to ensure that the cache cannot keep growing infinitely.

Note that the implementation is inspired by https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/blob/master/sdk/python/feast/infra/registry/proto_registry_utils.py#L30.

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Awesome, thanks for the thorough response!

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Of course!

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It seems that the operator-e2e-tests failed, but I'm not entirely sure why. @franciscojavierarceo Do you have an idea what went wrong here?

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It seems that the operator-e2e-tests failed, but I'm not entirely sure why. @franciscojavierarceo Do you have an idea what went wrong here?

It can be flakey.

@franciscojavierarceo franciscojavierarceo merged commit 924b8a3 into feast-dev:master Mar 21, 2025
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franciscojavierarceo pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 7, 2025
# [0.48.0](v0.47.0...v0.48.0) (2025-04-07)

### Bug Fixes

* Enhance integration logos display and styling in the UI ([#5221](#5221)) ([5799257](5799257))
* Fix space typo in push.md docs ([#5184](#5184)) ([81677b2](81677b2))
* Fixed integration tests for qdrant and milvus ([#5224](#5224)) ([d6b080d](d6b080d))
* Formatting trino ([760ec0e](760ec0e))
* Multiple fixes in retrieval of online documents ([#5168](#5168)) ([66ddd3e](66ddd3e))
* Operator route creation for Feast UI in OpenShift ([e3946b4](e3946b4))
* Remove entity_rows parameter from retrieve_online_documents_v2 call ([#5225](#5225)) ([2a2e304](2a2e304))
* Styling ([#5222](#5222)) ([34c393c](34c393c))
* typo in the chart ([bd3448b](bd3448b))
* Update milvus-quickstart and feature_store.yaml with correct Milvus Config ([#5200](#5200)) ([306acca](306acca))
* Update Qdrant online store paths in repo_config.py ([#5207](#5207)) ([ab35b0b](ab35b0b)), closes [#5206](#5206)
* Update the doc ([#5194](#5194)) ([726464e](726464e))
* Updated the operator-rabc example to test RBAC from a Kubernete pod ([#5147](#5147)) ([d23a1a5](d23a1a5))

### Features

* add `real`(float32) type for trino offline store ([#4749](#4749)) ([0947f96](0947f96))
* Add async DynamoDB timeout and retry configuration ([#5178](#5178)) ([2f3bcf5](2f3bcf5))
* Add CronJob capability to the Operator (feast apply & materialize-incremental) ([#5217](#5217)) ([285c0dc](285c0dc))
* Add RAG tutorial and Use Cases documentation ([#5226](#5226)) ([99f4004](99f4004))
* Added CLI for features, get historical and online features ([#5197](#5197)) ([4ab9f74](4ab9f74))
* Added export support in feast UI ([#5198](#5198)) ([b079553](b079553))
* Added global registry search support in Feast UI ([#5195](#5195)) ([f09ea49](f09ea49))
* Added UI for Features list ([#5192](#5192)) ([cc7fd47](cc7fd47))
* Adding blog on RAG with Milvus ([#5161](#5161)) ([b9e2e6c](b9e2e6c))
* Adding Docling RAG demo ([#5109](#5109)) ([569404b](569404b))
* Allow transformations on writes to output list of entities ([#5209](#5209)) ([955521a](955521a))
* Cache get_any_feature_view results ([#5175](#5175)) ([924b8a3](924b8a3))
* Clickhouse offline store ([#4725](#4725)) ([86794c2](86794c2))
* Enable keyword search for Milvus ([#5199](#5199)) ([ac44967](ac44967))
* Enable transformations on PDFs ([#5172](#5172)) ([3674971](3674971))
* Enable users to use Entity Query as CTE during historical retrieval ([#5202](#5202)) ([fe69eaf](fe69eaf))
* helm support more deployment config ([d575372](d575372))
* Improved CLI file structuring ([#5201](#5201)) ([972ed34](972ed34))
* Kickoff Transformation implementationtransformation code base ([#5181](#5181)) ([0083303](0083303))
* Make keep-alive timeout configurable for async DynamoDB connections ([#5167](#5167)) ([7f3e528](7f3e528))
* Operator mounts the odh-trusted-ca-bundle configmap when deployed on RHOAI or ODH ([d4d7b0d](d4d7b0d))
* Spark Transformation ([#5185](#5185)) ([be3d85c](be3d85c))
j-wine pushed a commit to j-wine/feast that referenced this pull request Jun 7, 2025
Cache get_any_feature_view results

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Jäger <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Sebastian Jäger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Weinhold <[email protected]>
j-wine pushed a commit to j-wine/feast that referenced this pull request Jun 7, 2025
# [0.48.0](feast-dev/feast@v0.47.0...v0.48.0) (2025-04-07)

### Bug Fixes

* Enhance integration logos display and styling in the UI ([feast-dev#5221](feast-dev#5221)) ([5799257](feast-dev@5799257))
* Fix space typo in push.md docs ([feast-dev#5184](feast-dev#5184)) ([81677b2](feast-dev@81677b2))
* Fixed integration tests for qdrant and milvus ([feast-dev#5224](feast-dev#5224)) ([d6b080d](feast-dev@d6b080d))
* Formatting trino ([760ec0e](feast-dev@760ec0e))
* Multiple fixes in retrieval of online documents ([feast-dev#5168](feast-dev#5168)) ([66ddd3e](feast-dev@66ddd3e))
* Operator route creation for Feast UI in OpenShift ([e3946b4](feast-dev@e3946b4))
* Remove entity_rows parameter from retrieve_online_documents_v2 call ([feast-dev#5225](feast-dev#5225)) ([2a2e304](feast-dev@2a2e304))
* Styling ([feast-dev#5222](feast-dev#5222)) ([34c393c](feast-dev@34c393c))
* typo in the chart ([bd3448b](feast-dev@bd3448b))
* Update milvus-quickstart and feature_store.yaml with correct Milvus Config ([feast-dev#5200](feast-dev#5200)) ([306acca](feast-dev@306acca))
* Update Qdrant online store paths in repo_config.py ([feast-dev#5207](feast-dev#5207)) ([ab35b0b](feast-dev@ab35b0b)), closes [feast-dev#5206](feast-dev#5206)
* Update the doc ([feast-dev#5194](feast-dev#5194)) ([726464e](feast-dev@726464e))
* Updated the operator-rabc example to test RBAC from a Kubernete pod ([feast-dev#5147](feast-dev#5147)) ([d23a1a5](feast-dev@d23a1a5))

### Features

* add `real`(float32) type for trino offline store ([feast-dev#4749](feast-dev#4749)) ([0947f96](feast-dev@0947f96))
* Add async DynamoDB timeout and retry configuration ([feast-dev#5178](feast-dev#5178)) ([2f3bcf5](feast-dev@2f3bcf5))
* Add CronJob capability to the Operator (feast apply & materialize-incremental) ([feast-dev#5217](feast-dev#5217)) ([285c0dc](feast-dev@285c0dc))
* Add RAG tutorial and Use Cases documentation ([feast-dev#5226](feast-dev#5226)) ([99f4004](feast-dev@99f4004))
* Added CLI for features, get historical and online features ([feast-dev#5197](feast-dev#5197)) ([4ab9f74](feast-dev@4ab9f74))
* Added export support in feast UI ([feast-dev#5198](feast-dev#5198)) ([b079553](feast-dev@b079553))
* Added global registry search support in Feast UI ([feast-dev#5195](feast-dev#5195)) ([f09ea49](feast-dev@f09ea49))
* Added UI for Features list ([feast-dev#5192](feast-dev#5192)) ([cc7fd47](feast-dev@cc7fd47))
* Adding blog on RAG with Milvus ([feast-dev#5161](feast-dev#5161)) ([b9e2e6c](feast-dev@b9e2e6c))
* Adding Docling RAG demo ([feast-dev#5109](feast-dev#5109)) ([569404b](feast-dev@569404b))
* Allow transformations on writes to output list of entities ([feast-dev#5209](feast-dev#5209)) ([955521a](feast-dev@955521a))
* Cache get_any_feature_view results ([feast-dev#5175](feast-dev#5175)) ([924b8a3](feast-dev@924b8a3))
* Clickhouse offline store ([feast-dev#4725](feast-dev#4725)) ([86794c2](feast-dev@86794c2))
* Enable keyword search for Milvus ([feast-dev#5199](feast-dev#5199)) ([ac44967](feast-dev@ac44967))
* Enable transformations on PDFs ([feast-dev#5172](feast-dev#5172)) ([3674971](feast-dev@3674971))
* Enable users to use Entity Query as CTE during historical retrieval ([feast-dev#5202](feast-dev#5202)) ([fe69eaf](feast-dev@fe69eaf))
* helm support more deployment config ([d575372](feast-dev@d575372))
* Improved CLI file structuring ([feast-dev#5201](feast-dev#5201)) ([972ed34](feast-dev@972ed34))
* Kickoff Transformation implementationtransformation code base ([feast-dev#5181](feast-dev#5181)) ([0083303](feast-dev@0083303))
* Make keep-alive timeout configurable for async DynamoDB connections ([feast-dev#5167](feast-dev#5167)) ([7f3e528](feast-dev@7f3e528))
* Operator mounts the odh-trusted-ca-bundle configmap when deployed on RHOAI or ODH ([d4d7b0d](feast-dev@d4d7b0d))
* Spark Transformation ([feast-dev#5185](feast-dev#5185)) ([be3d85c](feast-dev@be3d85c))

Signed-off-by: Jacob Weinhold <[email protected]>
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