I have fond memories of Dragonlance. Spent good part of my childhood reading every Dragonlance book I found from the library. The chronicles and the legends (the ones with the twins) were awesome.

Yes. Parquet files do not support deleting or adding rows, since they are immutable. So adding or removing rows requires rewriting the file. The way I see it, using this optimization we can mark rows as deleted at delta table level without having to rewrite the underlying parquet file.

Very nice!

I forced myself to finish book 10 which is said to be the most boring one. Lost motivation to finish the series and still stuck at book 11. Still hoping to pick it up and finish the series one day.

Read Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, and liked the dreamy atmosphere. Currently reading Kafka on the Shore by same author. Many people recommended Norwegian Wood so that is also on the reading list.

Hello! Did my part and moved here from Reddit. Interesting to see what the future holds for Reddit.