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One month on, and I have zero regrets about quitting Facebook & Instagram. I have replaced the scrolling time with listening to podcasts. I now stay in touch with family overseas via email and photo sharing, and I use Snapchat for sharing photos with immediate family, privately. Works great.

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Chris Riccomini (@chris.blue) shares his thoughts on Open Source foundations: Apache, CNCF, Commonhaus. He also explains why Commonhaus is a better fit for SlateDB cnr.sh/posts/compar...

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Comet 0.6.0 has been released. This is a smaller release than usual now that we have moved to an approximately monthly release cadence to match core DataFusion. datafusion.apache.org/blog/2025/02...

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Ballista 43.0.0 has been released, and now provides seamless integration with DataFusion. datafusion.apache.org/blog/2025/02...

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Check out this excellent presentation from @robtandy.bsky.social on his work with the DataFusion Ray project from last week's DataFusion community meetup. It is a great overview of how to build a distributed system on top of DataFusion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceTo...

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This Week in DataFusion Comet (Jan 26): github.com/apache/dataf...

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I've finally decided to quit using Facebook. My feed is overwhelmed with nonsense content that I am not interested in and cannot seem to block. It is a real shame, though, because it was a good way to stay connected with family. Is there a viable alternative? What are others using instead?

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This week in DataFusion Comet (Jan 18). Inspired by @andrewlamb1111.bsky.social's weekly updates in DataFusion core, I am going to start doing the same in Comet to help keep the community updated on current events. github.com/apache/dataf...

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DataFusion Comet 0.5.0 has been released. See blog post for details. datafusion.apache.org/blog/2025/01...

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2025 is shaping up to be a breakout year for fast query result transfer with Apache Arrow. But what exactly makes it so fast? David Li, Matt Topol, and I break it down in this new blog post: arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/01...

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DataFusion Comet performance has been improving recently and now demonstrates a ~2x speedup compared to Spark for single node TPC-H. There is more to do, but this feels like a significant milestone. github.com/apache/dataf...

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Buckle up because we're banging into the new year with my annual retrospective of the last year in databases! Highlights include license change blowback, Databricks vs. Snowflake gangwar, @duckdb.org's shotgun weddings, and buying a quarterback to impress your lover: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...

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The latest in my set of career advice: How to maintain a healthy work-life balance by setting boundaries. I'm moving these over to blog posts on my website for easier sharing. #CareerPlusPlus #WorkAdvice

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Yet another impressive DataFusion Python release. This time with interoperability improvements with PyCapsule and FFI. datafusion.apache.org/blog/2024/12...

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1/5 Just made my first contribution to the #Datafusion #Comet - a native physical execution engine for #Apache #Spark! 🚀 While Spark with it's row oriented model and code generation approach is quite good on average, there is almost always a faster specific solution.

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"We want to remove DataFusion from everything" 😭 It's good to hear detailed feedback for a use case where DataFusion didn't work out—some important lessons. youtu.be/Sor3KZpmbHg?...

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Apache DataFusion Comet 0.4.0 has been released! See the blog post for details. datafusion.apache.org/blog/2024/11...

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Apache DataFusion's Ballista distributed query engine has quietly been getting a makeover over the past several months. I'm excited to see the project being maintained again! Performance is 🔥. See the updated README for more information. github.com/apache/dataf...

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What a brilliant use of AI! news.virginmediao2.co.uk/o2-unveils-d...

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If you’re wondering what all the fuss is about lately, this is what’s driving the adoption of Iceberg to implement the Open Data Lake. sympathetic.ink/2024/11/07/T... It’s all columnar data in blob storage anyways. You may as well be the one taking advantage of it.

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So I have this theory that DataFusion, despite being a SQL engine, will actually enable a new breed of data systems to create non-SQL languages for working with data. Here's the idea...🧵

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I recently set up a small k8s cluster in my basement. It consists of two gaming PCs connected with a 2.5g switch. For a reasonable cost (<$4k), it gives me 64 cores and 256MB RAM. It has turned out to be a game changer for iterating on local performance tuning & benchmarking.

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This is a really interesting talk on building a domain-specific database (Bioinformatics) with DataFusion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fltZ...

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I see that the NVIDIA RAPIDS team has published their first Rust crate (that I know of). I'd love to see them do the same for the cuDF DataFrame library. crates.io/crates/cuvs

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DataFusion was named one of the 10 coolest open-source software tools of 2024. www.crn.com/news/softwar...

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If you're interested in learning more about accelerating Apache Spark with Apache DataFusion's Comet subproject, check out this talk I recently gave as part of CMU's Database Building Blocks Seminar Series. We'd love for more people to try out Comet and give us feedback! youtu.be/o59s0d3HE1k?...

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I'm excited to see the data community growing on Bluesky! 👋 to all of my new followers over the past 24 hours.

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I made an infra engineer starter pack. Folks posting about databases, stream processing, durable execution, orchestrators, service meshes, and more. go.bsky.app/SCZe42X

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DataFusion has a new subproject! github.com/apache/dataf... This project was formerly known as Ray SQL, and allows DataFusion queries to be scaled out on Ray clusters.

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DataFusion Comet 0.2.0 has been released. See the blog post for details. Thanks to everyone who contributed! datafusion.apache.org/blog/2024/08...

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Announcing the DataFusion Comet project for accelerating Apache Spark with DataFusion. arrow.apache.org/blog/2024/03...

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The third chapter of my blog post 10+ years of building open source standards is now available on the sympathetic.ink blog. Onwards, OpenLineage: sympathetic.ink/2024/02/20/C...

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New post! Picking at some of my stream processing scar tissue. Why Samza failed, how it led to Kafka Streams and Kafka Connect, and why I'm skeptical of Apache Flink.

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Boring Data Tool (bdt) has now moved to the datafusion-contrib GitHub org. I think this is a nice example of building CLI data tools with ApacheArrow and DataFusion github.com/datafusion-c...

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So how do I get to post to Bluesky and X without duplicating effort?

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TIL about Apache DafaFusion Comet. Apple has replaced Spark's guts with DataFusion. And they're donating it. 🤯 github.com/apache/arrow... This is an alternative to Meta's Velox Spark implementation. facebookincubator.github.io/velox/spark_...

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Now that Bluesky is open to all, I figured I should find out if all the data folks are over here yet. Who should I be following here?

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