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Daft v0.7.5: A Plugin System, 5x Faster Parquet, and a Real-Time Query Debugger

Native Extensions via Stable C ABI, Live Query Dashboard, and 2-5x faster Parquet Reads on Nested Types

Stateless UDFs with daft.func

Row-wise, async, generator, and batch UDFs in Daft: one decorator, zero boilerplate, local or distributed

How We're Making Observability Better in Daft

Daft Observability Roadmap: metrics, OTEL integration, real-time dashboards, and DataFrame APIs for debugging and monitoring distributed pipelines.

Daft v0.7.4: Arrow-rs, OpenDAL, Flight Shuffle, and Better Metrics

Another killer release featuring arrow-rs migration, Apache OpenDAL support, Flight shuffle, better metrics, and Tencent Cloud COS integration.

Daft v0.7.3: OTEL for Flotilla, Nightly Builds, and Lance NN Search

Daft v0.7.3 adds distributed observability with df.metrics via OTEL, nightly builds, and native Lance vector search.

daft.File: Work with Any File, Anywhere

Distributed Random Access for Audio, Video, Documents, and Code

Daft OSS: New Governance Model

Formalizing role definitions for contributors and maintainers

Tuning Daft's Distributed UDFs: Lessons from ByteDance

Announcing Early Access to Daft Cloud

Running model-driven data pipelines reliably at production scale

Why I joined Eventual

Chris Kellogg on his decision to join Eventual

Distributed Model Inference with Daft

A deep dive into Daft’s distributed execution engine, Flotilla, for multimodal data pipelines

Introducing Dynamic Batching: Auto-Tuning for Daft Pipelines

I Got Tired of Tuning Batch Sizes, So I Made Them Tune Themselves