Introducing Lightstream: Measured faster than Apache Arrow Flight (gold standard) on every axis in open 50gbps EC2 network benchmarks whilst producing a single fully ordered stream off parallel data exchange.
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Hi everybody, I am excited to announce the release of Lightstream , a step change capability for high-performance data transport, that makes it essentially effortless to send Apache Arrow, Protobuf, and Message Pack data over the network, shared memory, or even piped out to the terminal so an agent like Claude can watch the live batch stream in real time (example in repo). Furthermore, Lightstream exceeded the performance of the gold standard industry comparison - Arrow Flight, on every axis of a 50gbps networking open benchmark, the details of which are attached and open to run in the Lightst
