Slow, brittle RAG pipelines — async FastAPI + Polars data-centric stack

Slow, brittle RAG pipelines — async FastAPI + Polars data-centric stack targets a $35.0B = 20M developer + data teams x $1,750 avg annual spend on AI/ML-infra & developer tools total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 38%+ global CAGR for AI infrastructure and developer tooling.

Key trends driving demand: RAG adoption surge -- enterprises increasingly rely on retrieval augmentation to keep LLMs grounded and reduce hallucinations.; Edge/async serving -- demand for sub-second AI endpoints drives adoption of async frameworks and optimized runtimes.; Columnar compute rise -- Polars and Arrow enable high-throughput ETL, letting teams preprocess huge corpora quickly and cheaply..