Lakshmi Balakrishnan

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Platform engineer focused on query optimization and AWS at scale.

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Compression codec choice for Parquet, snappy vs zstd tradeoffs

Currently using Snappy for all Parquet output by default. Considering switching to zstd for a better compression ratio, but worried about CPU cost on both write and read paths.

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