Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet

&#xA; Table of Contents &#xA; &#xA; Why Hardwood? &#xA; Hello, Hardwood! &#xA; Parsing Performance &#xA; Built With AI, Not By AI &#xA; What’s Next? &#xA; &#xA; &#xA; &#xA; Today, it’s my great pleasure to announce the first public release of Hardwood, a new parser for the Apache Parquet file format, optimized for minimal dependencies and great performance. &#xA; &#xA; &#xA; Hardwood is…