What happened at an event, and what the conversations added up to. Every post is rooted in its Devreal record and links the interviews it discusses.
The San Francisco Apache DataFusion meetup at LangChain: ADBC, SmithDB, Hotdata, and Sail, four 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.
Read the post ↗