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+
+# Concepts, Readings, Events
+
+## 🧭 Background Concepts
+
+- **2024-06-13**: [2024 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data: Apache Arrow DataFusion: A Fast, Embeddable, Modular Analytic Query Engine](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3626246.3653368) [Download](http://andrew.nerdnetworks.org/other/SIGMOD-2024-lamb.pdf) [Talk](https://youtu.be/-DpKcPfnNms) [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gqcxSNLGVwaqN0_yJtCbNm19-w5pqPuktII5_EDA6_k/edit#slide=id.p), [Recording](https://youtu.be/-DpKcPfnNms)
+
+- **2024-06-07**: [Video: SIGMOD 2024 Practice: Apache Arrow DataFusion A Fast, Embeddable, Modular Analytic Query Engine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DpKcPfnNms&t=5s)
+
+- **2023-04-05**: [Video: DataFusion Architecture Part 3: Physical Plan and Execution](https://youtu.be/2jkWU3_w6z0) [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cA2WQJ2qg6tx6y4Wf8FH2WVSm9JQ5UgmBWATHdik0hg)
+
+- **2023-04-04**: [Video: DataFusion Architecture Part 2: Logical Plans and Expressions](https://youtu.be/EzZTLiSJnhY) [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ypylM3-w60kVDW7Q6S99AHzvlBgciTdjsAfqNP85K30)
+- **2023-03-31**: [Video: DataFusion Architecture Part 1: Query Engines](https://youtu.be/NVKujPxwSBA) [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1D3GDVas-8y0sA4c8EOgdCvEjVND4s2E7I6zfs67Y4j8)
+
+- **2020-02-27**: [Online Book: How Query Engines Work](https://andygrove.io/2020/02/how-query-engines-work/)
+
+## ✨ Good Reads
+
+This is a list of DataFusion related blog posts, articles, and other resources. Please open a PR to add any new resources you create or find
+
+- **0204-09-13** [Blog: Using StringView / German Style Strings to make Queries Faster: Part 2 - String Operations](https://www.influxdata.com/blog/faster-queries-with-stringview-part-two-influxdb/) [Reposted on DataFusion Blog](https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2024/09/13/string-view-german-style-strings-part-2/)
+
+- **0204-09-13** [Blog: Using StringView / German Style Strings to Make Queries Faster: Part 1- Reading Parquet](https://www.influxdata.com/blog/faster-queries-with-stringview-part-one-influxdb/) [Reposted on Datafusion Blog](https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2024/09/13/string-view-german-style-strings-part-1/)
+
+- **2024-10-16** [Blog: Candle Image Segmentation](https://www.letsql.com/posts/candle-image-segmentation/)
+
+- **2024-09-23 → 2024-12-02** [Carnegie Mellon University: Database Building Blocks Seminar Series - Fall 2024](https://db.cs.cmu.edu/seminar2024/)
+
+  - **2024-11-04** [Video: Synnada: Towards “Unified” Compute Engines: Opportunities and Challenges (Mehmet Ozan Kabak)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z38WY9uZtt4)
+  - **2024-10-28** [Video: Exon: A Built for Purpose Bioinformatics Database (Trent Hauck)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fltZMO8EGl0&list=PLSE8ODhjZXjZc2AdXq_Lc1JS62R48UX2L&index=6)
+  - **2024-10-21** [Video: Accelerating Data and AI with Spice.ai Open-Source Software (Luke Kim)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyM-ec1lKfU&list=PLSE8ODhjZXjZc2AdXq_Lc1JS62R48UX2L&index=5)
+  - **2024-10-07** [Video: ParadeDB – Postgres for Search and Analytics (Philippe Noël)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxb8TELNM98&list=PLSE8ODhjZXjZc2AdXq_Lc1JS62R48UX2L&index=4)
+  - **2024-09-30** [Video: Accelerating Apache Spark Workloads with Apache DataFusion Comet (Andy Grove)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o59s0d3HE1k&list=PLSE8ODhjZXjZc2AdXq_Lc1JS62R48UX2L&index=3)
+  - **2024-09-23** [Video: Apache Arrow DataFusion: A Fast, Embeddable, Modular Analytic Query Engine (Andrew Lamb)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJhRbDFJjbg&list=PLSE8ODhjZXjZc2AdXq_Lc1JS62R48UX2L&index=2)
+
+- **2024-09-17** [Video: Profiling Apache DataFusion using flamegraph](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z11xtYw_xs)
+
+- **2024-08-25** [Blog: Pydantic/logfire: We're changing database](https://github.com/pydantic/logfire/issues/408)
+
+- **2024-08-15** [Blog: Faster DataFusion with StringView - Xiangpeng Hao (Aug 15, 2024)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVLshX6fbds)
+
+- **2024-08-14** [Blog: DataFusion @ UWheel](https://uwheel.rs/post/datafusion_uwheel/)
+
+- **2024-06-17** [Blog: Columnar File Readers In-Depth: APIs and Fusion](https://blog.lancedb.com/columnar-file-readers-in-depth-apis-and-fusion/)
+
+- **2024-06-14** [2024 Simplicity in Management of Data (SiMOD): DataFusion: The Case for Building Open Data Systems (Keynote)](https://sfu-dis.github.io/simod/)[Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1K3EdknzkqU2LhWi_eNKXdcvNk0OEvk9AqTLqhZkPxuI/edit)
+
+- **2024-05-29** [Blog: Query Push Down in Cube's Semantic Layer](https://cube.dev/blog/query-push-down-in-cubes-semantic-layer)
+
+- **2024-06-26** [Microsoft Gray Systems Lab: Building InfluxDB 3.0 (and other systems)](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/gray-systems-lab) [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1a4wHZij_69drdmD32TPombQ9zSaE6l26LZ87DAz2New/edit#slide=id.p)
+
+- **2024-03-26** [DataCouncil 2024: Building InfluxDB 3.0 with Apache Arrow, DataFusion, Flight, and Parquet](https://www.datacouncil.ai/talks24/building-influxdb-30-with-apache-arrow-datafusion-flight-and-parquet?hsLang=en) [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12kdYHLyH79B5__9xs3de_hZyG9geW4jC3vUpiy39VA0) | [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Z7kFGsYRI)
+
+- **2024-03-20** [Video: Profiling DataFusion with Instruments (part of XCode on Mac OSx)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3dXH61Kr5U)
+
+- **2024-03-18** [Blog: Making Recent Value Queries Hundreds of Times Faster](https://www.influxdata.com/blog/making-recent-value-queries-hundreds-times-faster/)
+
+- **2023-10-25** [Blog: Flight, DataFusion, Arrow, and Parquet: Using the FDAP Architecture to build InfluxDB 3.0](https://www.influxdata.com/blog/flight-datafusion-arrow-parquet-fdap-architecture-influxdb/)
+
+- **2023-09-26** [Blog: 100x Faster Ingest with DataFusion + Better Connectivity with FlightSQL](https://www.kamu.dev/blog/2023-09-datafusion-flightsql/)
+
+- **2023-08-15** [Blog: Running Window Query in Stream Processing](https://www.synnada.ai/blog/running-window-query-in-stream-processing)
+
+- **2023-08-05** [Blog: Aggregating Millions of Groups Fast in Apache Arrow DataFusion](https://www.influxdata.com/blog/aggregating-millions-groups-fast-apache-arrow-datafusion/) | [DataFusion Blog](https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2023/08/05/datafusion_fast_grouping/)
+
+- **2023-07-28** [Blog: Sliding Window Hash Join (SWHJ)](https://www.synnada.ai/blog/sliding-window-hash-join-swhj)
+
+- **2023-07-13** [Blog: Probabilistic Data Structures in Streaming: Count-Min Sketch](https://www.synnada.ai/blog/probabilistic-data-structures-in-streaming-count-min-sketch)
+
+- **2023-05-25** [Video: D3L2: Discussing Rust, Ballista, Ray SQL, Data Fusion with Andy Grove](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEL6DluUxgw)
+
+- **2023-02-20** [Blog: General Purpose Stream Joins via Pruning Symmetric Hash Joins](https://www.synnada.ai/blog/general-purpose-stream-joins-via-pruning-symmetric-hash-joins)
+
+- **2023-09-27** [Slides: MIT Database Group: Implementing InfluxDB IOx](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_JXxapY2jksCOm5hePK8FIjO3buDzsrBBy0jUEpJR4A)
+
+- **2023-06-02** [Dutch Seminar on Database System Design: Implementing InfluxDB IOx](https://dsdsd.da.cwi.nl/past_talks/post_talks/Andrew-Lamb/) [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XTsO2zsHkgBCF6C0YVwk0BnhZzLBrm39oeapOBb-s9A) | [Recording](https://youtu.be/Y5K2Ik2oo-8)
+
+- **2023-02-15** [Slides: Invited Talk at Optum Labs: Building a New Time Series Database](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SzqgTtSKVqpuFUDdOHhRNC3mLmJ7oyVp0OyrYwHvgPA)
+
+- **2023-01-01** [Blog: What I Want from DataFusion 2023](https://andygrove.io/2023/01/what-i-want-from-datafusion-2023/)
+
+- **2022-12-07** [Blog: Querying Parquet with Millisecond Latency](https://www.influxdata.com/blog/querying-parquet-millisecond-latency/)
+
+- **2022-06-27** [DataBricks Data+AI Summit: DataFusion and Arrow](https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/session/datafusion-and-arrow-supercharge-your-data-analytical-tool-rusty-query-engine) [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wLORMn23RD_sQ84W2w51s-Xysly5S8F5mGXzaeJ4QWY) | [Recording](https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/session/datafusion-and-arrow-supercharge-your-data-analytical-tool-rusty-query-engine)
+
+- **2022-05-23** [Video: Slides The Data Thread 2022: Apache Arrow and DataFusion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb61lVH2vYc)[Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Tkjfup5z_nsrBWIO7dXscEzC5toTQCXj0IsZeO3endc)
+
+- **2021-03-10** [Video: InfluxData Tech Talk: Query Engine Design and Rust-Based DataFusion in Apache Arrow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6eCAVEk4kU)[Slides](https://www.slideshare.net/influxdata/influxdb-iox-tech-talks-query-engine-design-and-the-rustbased-datafusion-in-apache-arrow-244161934)
+
+## 📅 Release Notes & Updates
+
+- **2024-08-24** [Apache DataFusion Python 40.1.0 Released, Significant usability updates](https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2024/08/20/python-datafusion-40.0.0/)
+
+- **2024-07-24** [DataFusion 40.0.0 Release](https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2024/07/24/datafusion-40.0.0/)
+
+- **2024-01-19** [DataFusion 34.0.0 Release](https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2024/01/19/datafusion-34.0.0/)
+
+- **2023-06-24** [DataFusion 25.0.0 Release](https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2023/06/24/datafusion-25.0.0/)
+
+- **2023-01-19** [DataFusion 16.0.0 Release](https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2023/01/19/datafusion-16.0.0/)
+
+- **2022-10-25** [DataFusion 13.0.0 Release](https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2022/10/25/datafusion-13.0.0/)
+
+- **2022-05-16** [DataFusion 8.0.0 Release](https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2022/05/16/datafusion-8.0.0/)
+
+- **2022-02-28** [DataFusion 7.0.0 Release](https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2022/02/28/datafusion-7.0.0/)
+
+- **2021-11-19** [DataFusion 6.0.0 Release](https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2021/11/19/datafusion-6.0.0/)
+
+- **2021-08-18** [DataFusion 5.0.0 Release](https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2021/08/18/datafusion-5.0.0/)
+
+- **2019-09-22** [DataFusion 0.15.0 Release Notes](https://andygrove.io/2019/09/datafusion-0.15.0-release-notes/)
+
+# 🌎 Community Events
+
+- **2025-01-15** (Upcoming) [Boston Apache DataFusion Meetup](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/discussions/13165)
+- **2024-12-18** (Upcoming) [Chicago Apache DataFusion Meetup](https://lu.ma/eq5myc5i)
+- **2024-09-27** [Belgrade Apache DataFusion Meetup](https://lu.ma/tmwuz4lg), [recap](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/discussions/11431#discussioncomment-10832070), [slides](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/discussions/11431#discussioncomment-10826169), [recordings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4huEsFFv6bQ&list=PLrhIfEjaw9ilQEczOQlHyMznabtVRptyX)
+- **2024-06-26** [New York City Apache DataFusion Meetup](https://lu.ma/2iwba0xm). [slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dOLPAFPEMLhLv4NN6O9QSDIyyeiIySqAjky5cVgdWAE/edit#slide=id.g26bebde4fcc_3_7)
+- **2024-06-25** [San Francisco Bay Area Apache DataFusion Meetup](https://lu.ma/6bphole2). [slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Oz2yGllrWBkNGyiRMLr8qXTt4vmvtJWuI_weGThaZak/edit#slide=id.g26bebde4fcc_3_7)
+- **2024-03-27** [Austin Apache DataFusion Meetup](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/discussions/8522). [slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1S51TK8waxHEJaxi_-uiSMrgQZ09m_hfaasPk5X5ExEY), [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1N3pH3tFw8)
+- **2024-03-26** [Seattle Apache DataFusion Meetup](