Feast: The Open Source Feature Store For AI
Red Hat, May 16,2025
In the era of AI, data is a competitive advantage, yet enterprises experience a high failure rate getting AI applications to production. Why? Data quality, consistency, access and availability are often the root causes. Said another way, serving data in production is hard.
I spent over a decade working in AI for large financial institutions and my experience taught me that, indeed, data, and the complexity it exposes, tends to be the biggest challenge to deploying AI to production.
In nearly every role I found that the organization had incrementally implemented their own version of what is now called a 'feature store.' Feast emerged in 2017 as an open source solution to help companies standardize on an approach to handle the challenges of training and serving data at scale.