Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, more ...

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Static detector for duplicate and near-duplicate step text in .feature files. Works across Cucumber-JVM (Java), behave and pytest-bdd (Python), Cucumber-Ruby, cucumber-js, SpecFlow (.NET), and Behat ...

Another year passes. I was hoping to write more articles instead of just these end-of-the-year screeds, but I almost died in the spring semester, and it sucked up my time. Nevertheless, I will go ...

Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. This article shows data engineers how to use PyIceberg, a lightweight and powerful Python library ...

A proof-of-concept exploit tool has been publicly released for a maximum severity Apache Parquet vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-30065, making it easy to find vulnerable servers. The tool was ...

A flaw in code for handling Parquet, Apache’s open-source columnar data file format, allows attackers to run arbitrary code on vulnerable instances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-30065, is a ...

At the heart of Apache Spark is the concept of the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD), a programming abstraction that represents an immutable collection of objects that can be split across a ...