deepset-ai / deepset-ai/haystack

Support gRPC interface of TEI

Open
#7,522 3 comments 2 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

P2
Dominant language
Python
Stars
26.6k
Forks
3.2k
Avg merge
1d 3h
Merged PRs (30d)
194

Description

The gRPC interface of HuggingFace's Text Embeddings Inference (TEI) library is much, much faster than its HTTP interface. It would be fantastic to see Haystack add support for it.

https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference?tab=readme-ov-file#grpc

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with the linked Hugging Face Text Embeddings Inference gRPC documentation and then locate Haystack’s existing TEI integration. Determine the expected gRPC support and verify that the completed work can use the TEI gRPC interface rather than only its HTTP interface.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
grpc, python
Domain
ai, api
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
38/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.