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WarningAcknowledgments Let’s take a moment to thank my PhD sponsors: InfluxData, Bauplan, SpiralDB, and the taxpayers of the State of Wisconsin and the federal government.

I’m currently having an end-of-PhD crisis, where I keep thinking about what to do next.

WarningAcknowledgments My work is supported by funding from InfluxData, Bauplan, SpiralDB, and the taxpayers of the State of Wisconsin and the federal government.

WarningAcknowledgments My work is supported by funding from InfluxData, Bauplan, SpiralDB, and the taxpayers of the State of Wisconsin and the federal government.

WarningAcknowledgments My work is supported by funding from InfluxData, Bauplan, SpiralDB, and the taxpayers of the State of Wisconsin and the federal government.

WarningAcknowledgments This work is supported by funding from: 1.

WarningAcknowledgments This work was supported by funding from: InfluxData, Bauplan, and SpiralDB.

WarningAcknowledgement This blog post was made possible by funding support from: InfluxData Taxpayers of the state of Wisconsin and the federal government.

WarningAcknowledgement This work (the PR, this blog post, parquet-viewer, and LiquidCache) was made possible by funding support from: InfluxData Taxpayers of the state of Wisconsin and the federal government.

We, as system researchers, face an existential crisis.

Quick look Online here: https://parquet-viewer.xiangpeng.systems Source code: parquet-viewer Run SQL queries Visualize query plans Examine metadata How it works It compiles Parquet/Arrow/DataFusion to webassembly which runs in the browser.

📢📢📢 Checkout LiquidCache, an open-source caching solution that reduces latency by 10x for cloud-native DataFusion.

Note: special thanks to InfluxData for funding this blog post.

Editor note: This blog post is adapted from the InfluxData blog post series, make sure to also check out the original posts 1 2.

North star Research should connect to real people.

I have interned at Google, Microsoft (Research), and InfluxData.

Good advisors Innovators, educators, and entrepreneurs.

Preface A database can be complex; it involves almost all aspects (research communities) of computer science: PL (programming language), SE (software engineering), OS (operating system), networking, storage, theory; more recently, NLP (natural language pr…