Summary

At this point, not only should you be fairly well acquainted with a variety of topics and concepts regarding the usage of the Apache Arrow libraries, but you should also know how to start integrating them into your daily workflows. Whether you're taking advantage of the filesystem abstractions, data format conversions, or zero-copy communication benefits, Arrow can slot into a huge number of parts of any data workflow. Make sure you understand the concepts that have been touched on so far involving the formats, communication methods, and utilities provided by the Arrow libraries before moving on. Play around with them and try out different strategies for managing your data and passing it around between tools and utilities. If you're an engineer building out distributed systems, try using the Arrow IPC format (which we will learn about in detail in Chapter 4, Format and Memory Handling) and compare that with whatever previous way you passed data around. Which is easier...