Michael SumnerThe deeper I get into Zarr and virtualization efforts the bigger the problem seems. There are some huge perspective gaps here, xarray and Zarr reinvented a lot of stuff but then success has prevented a deeper understanding of the landscape. It's like netcdf woke up from the dark ages and half-modernized. 1/
We will see byte-reference virtualizing of the world's image server PNG files rather than use a handful of text to virtualize the entire service. Byte ref virtualization is THE stand-in for creating a simple serialized version of an xarray, no middle ground. The other main player here is one downstream python wrapper of (a rather old version of) GDAL, a community that didn't see past it won't turn back. Interesting times ahead! Array formats are getting *more* complicated 2/