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The San Francisco Apache DataFusion meetup at LangChain: adaptive query execution, Sail, SmithDB, Hotdata, and ADBC, five talks on the Rust data stack under Python APIs.
Read the post ↗ADBC, Columnar, and why the wire between engines should stay columnar: Matt Topol's case for an Arrow-native replacement for ODBC and JDBC, and what its Spark driver means for Sail.
Read the post ↗PyData Amsterdam 2026 at the NDSM Loods: Sail at Adyen on the conference track, a lightning talk on the QueryGraph stack, and conversations with Matt Topol, Ritchie Vink, and Christophe Blefari.
Read the post ↗The first Rust AI meetup in Europe, at Adyen in Amsterdam: a payments platform at trillion-dollar scale putting a Rust engine behind the same PySpark API, and sovereignty as a reason to choose Rust.
Read the post ↗The Apache Spark NYC meetup at Datadog: what is coming in Spark 4.2, agents watching Airflow and Spark at Wix, and replacing the runtime under Spark without touching the code above it.
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