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Living on Washington State's peninsula offers endless beauty, nature, and commuting challenges. In this talk, I'll share how I built ... PySpark's Arrow-based Python UDFs open the door to dramatically faster Most AI pipelines still treat models like Python UDFs, just another function bolted onto Spark, Pandas, or Ray. But models aren't ... For the past decade, SQL has reigned king of the If you work in tech long enough, you'll inevitably find yourself in the middle of a migration project—probably more often than you'd ... A few months back, I wrote an article about what hasn't changed in the

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JustinCastilla - There and back again... by ferry or I-5? | PyData Seattle 2025

JustinCastilla - There and back again... by ferry or I-5? | PyData Seattle 2025

Living on Washington State's peninsula offers endless beauty, nature, and commuting challenges. In this talk, I'll share how I built ...

Allison Wang & Shujing Yang - Polars on Spark | PyData Seattle 2025

Allison Wang & Shujing Yang - Polars on Spark | PyData Seattle 2025

PySpark's Arrow-based Python UDFs open the door to dramatically faster

Everett Kleven - Why Models Break Your Pipelines | PyData Seattle 2025

Everett Kleven - Why Models Break Your Pipelines | PyData Seattle 2025

Most AI pipelines still treat models like Python UDFs, just another function bolted onto Spark, Pandas, or Ray. But models aren't ...

Dr. Jim Dowling - Real-TIme Context Engineering for Agents | PyData Seattle 2025

Dr. Jim Dowling - Real-TIme Context Engineering for Agents | PyData Seattle 2025

Agents need timely and relevant context

Deepyaman Datta-✕-Data engineering with Python the right way-  -PyData Boston 2025

Deepyaman Datta-✕-Data engineering with Python the right way- -PyData Boston 2025

For the past decade, SQL has reigned king of the

Why Your Data Infrastructure Migration Project Will Fail (And How to Succeed)

Why Your Data Infrastructure Migration Project Will Fail (And How to Succeed)

If you work in tech long enough, you'll inevitably find yourself in the middle of a migration project—probably more often than you'd ...

What Has Changed In Data Engineering In The Past Decade - From The Cloud To AI

What Has Changed In Data Engineering In The Past Decade - From The Cloud To AI

A few months back, I wrote an article about what hasn't changed in the

Keynote: Josh Starmer - Communicating Concepts, Clearly Explained!!! | PyData Seattle 2025

Keynote: Josh Starmer - Communicating Concepts, Clearly Explained!!! | PyData Seattle 2025

In this talk I'll discuss 3 goals I have when I try to communicate complicated topics. I'll then illustrate how I used these goals to ...

Geert Jongen - From Data Lake Entanglement to Data Mesh Decoupling: Scaling...-PyData Eindhoven 2025

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