Marco Rubio on Monday: “Imagine an Iran that, instead of spending their wealth, billions of dollars, supporting terrorists or weapons, had spent that money helping the people of Iran.”
Donald Trump on Wednesday: “It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things… We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country.”
Irony is dead.
Mass surveillance and censorship are escalating in many countries right now. There is a global attack on secure encrypted communication. Often, authorities, politicians, and tech companies work together to push for new laws. One example: when Ashton Kutcher (yes, the actor), through his tech company Thorn, tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens through undemocratic and corrupt methods.
Parquet gave data lakes a common language: columnar layout, good compression, and fast scans. That still works well for classic analytics. But workloads have changed. We now mix wide scans with point lookups, handle embeddings and images, and run on S3-first stacks. On NVMe you want lots of tiny random reads. On S3 you want fewer, larger range requests. A format tuned for one world can feel chatty or slow in the other.
Augie Ray
