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High-Performance Serialization: Apache Arrow and Parquet

Updated May 4, 2026

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Cross-language memory formats for data science.

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Moving beyond Pickle to use Arrow for zero-copy data exchange between Python, R, and C++, enabling massive scalability in distributed data pipelines.

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