Apache Arrow entered the data scene quietly; for years, it languished in obscurity, unheard of and uncared for by the data community. Back in the olden days of

Apache Arrow entered the data scene quietly; for years, it languished in obscurity, unheard of and uncared for by the data community. Back in the olden days of 2022, which feels like another world, I was happily using and writing about Arrow as a data processing tool. A lot has changed since then, and Arrow has catapulted its way into everyday data engineering conversations.