chore: Update 'What is Feast' documentation (#4651)

emgeee · web-flow · commit 15e480816cc8 · 2024-10-18T23:42:16.000Z
update 'What is Feast' documentation

Signed-off-by: Matt Green &lt;emgeee@users.noreply.github.com&gt;
diff --git a/docs/README.md b/docs/README.md
@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ for serving features at low-latency in production systems and applications.
 Feast is a configurable operational data system that re-uses existing infrastructure to manage and serve machine learning 
 features to realtime models. For more details please review our [architecture](getting-started/architecture/overview.md).
 
+Concretely, Feast provides:
+
+* A python SDK for programtically defining features, entities, sources, and (optionally) transformations
+* A python SDK for for reading and writing features to configured offline and online data stores
+* An [optional feature server](reference/feature-servers/README.md) for reading and writing features (useful for non-python languages)
+* A [UI](reference/alpha-web-ui.md) for viewing and exploring information about features defined in the project
+* A [CLI tool](reference/feast-cli-commands.md) for viewing and updating feature information
+
 Feast allows ML platform teams to:
 
 * **Make features consistently available for training and low-latency serving** by managing an _offline store_ (to process historical data for scale-out batch scoring or model training), a low-latency _online store_ (to power real-time prediction)_,_ and a battle-tested _feature server_ (to serve pre-computed features online).
