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Apache Parquet

Apache Parquet Explained: Writing Efficient Parquet Files in Production

A production-focused guide to writing efficient Parquet datasets with the right partitions, file sizes, compression, and Spark write strategy.

Rituraj Khare July 12, 2026 • 8 min read

Apache Parquet

Apache Parquet Explained: How Apache Spark Processes Parquet Files

How Apache Spark reads Parquet efficiently with footer metadata, column pruning, predicate pushdown, vectorized decoding, and distributed execution.

Rituraj Khare July 12, 2026 • 8 min read

Apache Parquet

Apache Parquet Explained: Parquet in the Modern Data Engineering Ecosystem

Where Apache Parquet fits alongside Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, Spark, DuckDB, Trino, Athena, BigQuery, and Snowflake in modern data platforms.

Rituraj Khare July 12, 2026 • 8 min read

Apache Parquet

Apache Parquet Explained: Best Practices for Production

A practical checklist for using Apache Parquet correctly in production data platforms, including small files, partitioning, compression, schema changes, and format selection.

Rituraj Khare July 12, 2026 • 8 min read

Makefile

Using Conditional if-else Statements in a Makefile

Learn how ifeq, ifneq, ifdef, ifndef, shell conditionals, and inline expressions help Makefiles adapt across variables, operating systems, and build environments.

Rituraj Khare July 11, 2026 • 7 min read

Apache Parquet

Apache Parquet Explained: The Complete Guide to Modern Data Engineering Storage

A practical introduction to Apache Parquet, columnar storage, CSV and JSON bottlenecks, column pruning, compression, and modern analytical workloads.

Rituraj Khare July 11, 2026 • 8 min read

Apache Parquet

Apache Parquet Explained: File Structure and Internal Architecture

A practical walkthrough of Parquet internal architecture, including metadata, row groups, column chunks, data pages, and Spark query execution.

Rituraj Khare July 11, 2026 • 8 min read

Apache Parquet

Apache Parquet Explained: Query Performance, Pushdown, Compression, and Encoding

A practical guide to the performance techniques that make Apache Parquet efficient for modern analytical workloads.

Rituraj Khare July 11, 2026 • 9 min read

Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock: Features, Architecture, Benefits & Getting Started (2026 Guide)

Learn how Amazon Bedrock helps teams build, customize, secure, and scale generative AI applications with foundation models on AWS.

Rituraj Khare July 5, 2026 • 8 min read

Play Framework

Play Framework: Architecture, MVC, Features, Project Structure & Complete Beginner's Guide

Learn how Play Framework helps Scala and Java teams build reactive, stateless, cloud-ready web applications and high-performance REST APIs.

Rituraj Khare July 4, 2026 • 12 min read

Technology

Grafana vs Prometheus

Prometheus collects and stores time-series metrics, while Grafana turns those metrics into clear dashboards and monitoring views.

Rituraj Khare July 3, 2026 • 5 min read

Technology

Develop Event Driven Application Using ZIO Actors

Learn how ZIO Actors can model a ticket booking workflow with Kafka consumer, theatre actor, payment actor, booking sync actor, producer response, and unit testing.

Rituraj Khare July 3, 2026 • 9 min read

LLM Architecture

LLM Application Architecture: A Practical Guide

A practical guide to building secure, reliable, and scalable LLM applications beyond a simple prompt-to-model prototype.

Rituraj Khare July 2, 2026 • 10 min read