Archive - Daft Engineering Blog

Reading Delta Lake with Daft

Announcing the launch of Daft's Delta Lake read support

Apr 10 •

March 2024

Adversarial file reading: from 10,000 small CSVs to massive Parquet files

How Daft optimizes the reading of real-world data which is often a mix of "many small files" and "few large files"

Mar 6 •

December 2023

Announcing Daft 0.2: 10x faster IO from S3

Reading data from S3 just got 10x faster!

Dec 13, 2023 •

July 2023

Working with the Apache Parquet file format

Quick notes written from 200 meters down the Parquet rabbit hole

Jul 12, 2023 •

June 2023

Introducing Daft: A High-Performance Distributed Dataframe Library for Multimodal Data

The challenges of processing multimodal data, including images, embeddings, and nested structures, have always posed a significant hurdle for…

Jun 6, 2023 •

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