Hardwood Reaches Beta: S3, Predicate Push-Down, CLI, and More

&#xA; Table of Contents &#xA; &#xA; S3 Backend &#xA; Predicate Push-Down &#xA; Avro Bindings &#xA; hardwood-cli &#xA; Wrapping Up &#xA; &#xA; &#xA; &#xA; I am pleased to announce the release of Hardwood 1.0.0.Beta1! &#xA; &#xA; &#xA; Hardwood is a new parser for Apache Parquet, optimized for minimal dependencies and great performance.&#xA;Since the project’s initial release just a few weeks back ,…