Feast: use a Push Source to stream real-time feature updates into the online (and optionally offline) store
domain: ml-ops · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Define a `PushSource(name=..., batch_source=<BatchSource>)` in your feature repo — the `batch_source` is optional and only needed if you want historical/point-in-time retrieval or offline materialization for that data
Reference the PushSource as the `source` of a `FeatureView`, including the entity join key in the schema
Register it with `feast apply`
At write time, call `FeatureStore(...).push("push_source_name", dataframe, to=PushMode.ONLINE_AND_OFFLINE)` — the `to` parameter defaults to `PushMode.ONLINE` if omitted; other options are `PushMode.OFFLINE` and `PushMode.ONLINE_AND_OFFLINE`
For streaming pipelines (e.g., PySpark Structured Streaming), call `store.push(feature_view_name, pandas_df)` inside a `foreachBatch` writer on the streaming DataFrame
Alternatively push data to a deployed Feast Python feature server's push endpoint instead of calling the SDK in-process
Known gotchas
Push sources supersede the older `FeatureStore.write_to_online_store` API — use `push()` for new real-time write paths
If you attach a `batch_source` to the PushSource, Feast does not automatically backfill it for you; you are responsible for also landing data in that batch/warehouse source unless you push with `PushMode.OFFLINE` or `ONLINE_AND_OFFLINE`
Omitting `batch_source` means you lose point-in-time historical feature retrieval for that feature view — only appropriate when features are online-only (e.g., post-training embeddings)
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