Hardwood 1.0: A Fast, Lightweight Apache Parquet Reader for the JVM

&#xA; Table of Contents &#xA; &#xA; Why Hardwood &#xA; What’s in Hardwood 1.0 &#xA; Performance &#xA; The Hardwood CLI &#xA; Building Open-Source With AI &#xA; A Big Thank You &#xA; What’s Ahead &#xA; &#xA; &#xA; &#xA; Hardwood is a new Parquet library for the JVM, written from scratch to do one thing well: read (and soon, write) Apache Parquet files fast, with no mandatory dependencies.&#xA;It is…