Feature & Function Serving

Feature & Function Serving was renamed - Databricks now calls it Feature Serving, as of March 2024.

Feature & Function Serving → Feature Serving

The launch name for the serverless endpoints that made feature data and function results in the Databricks platform available over a REST API to models and applications deployed outside of Databricks.

• The ampersand was doing real work: a FeatureSpec is a user-defined set of features and functions, so one endpoint served precomputed feature values and the results of Unity Catalog Python functions computed on demand. 🔗
• Its own December 2023 launch note could not quite commit to the name - the heading says Feature & Function Serving, while the docs page it sends readers to is titled Feature Serving endpoints. 🔗
• The name lives on in the client library changelog, where databricks-feature-store 0.16.2 is the release that let you create Feature & Function Serving endpoints. 🔗

Category

AI / ML

In use from

December 2023🔗

Renamed

March 2024🔗

Also known as

Feature and Function Serving, Feature & Function Serving endpoints

Verified

2026-09-11