
Kyle Barron kylebarron.dev on bsky
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Creating the next generation of geospatial data tools for Python & the browser with GeoArrow, GeoParquet & GeoRust @developmentseed | he/him 🌈
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http://kylebarron.dev 07-03-2010 03:01:59
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Buckle up because we're crashing into the new year with my annual database retrospective: License change blowbacks! Databricks vs. SnowflakeDB gangwar! @DuckDB shotgun weddings! Buying a college quarterback with database money for your new lover! cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/20…

Pyodide 0.27 has been released 🎉 Release highlights: 🔓 pyodide-build decoupling 🔢 NumPy 2.0 🏎️ Python ⇔ JavaScript FFI performance improvements 📊 New data science and data engineering packages: ApacheArrow (PyArrow), polars data, DuckDB blog.pyodide.org/posts/0.27-rel…

The browser based parquet viewer parquet-viewer.xiangpeng.systems is pretty sweet -- let's you explore the file format, including schema and layout, and data with SQL. Natch it is based on ApacheDataFusion


Spatial indexes, and RTrees specifically, are at the core of geospatial software. But ever wondered how an RTree is actually implemented? In this post we’ll dive into the implementation of Flatbush, a blazing-fast, memory-efficient RTree by Volodymyr Agafonkin 🇺🇦 kylebarron.dev/literate-flatb…



Really happy for myself and developmentseed to be part of GeoJupyter, an initiative to improve interactive mapping and analysis in Project Jupyter notebooks. geojupyter.org/blog/20250108-…


Really cool to see Pete Gadomski 's work integrating Rust-Python for the STAC ecosystem youtube.com/watch?v=FdCJPm…


Published obstore 0.5, the fastest Python interface to S3, GCS & Azure. - Benchmarks: **2.8x higher throughput** than aioboto3 for many small, concurrent requests - Custom credential providers, automatic token refresh - Improved docs, fsspec integration developmentseed.org/obstore/latest…





Obstore v0.7 is out! The simplest Python cloud storage interface, powered by Rust - Anonymous connections to GCS - Obspec compatibility - Improvements to NASA Earthdata credential provider - Fixed creation of AzureStore from URL - Improved documentation developmentseed.org/obstore/latest…
