Bodo Blog

The latest news, insights, product release information, guides, and everything in between from the Bodo team.

April 5, 2022

Accelerate Python with Bodo: Read Data From AWS S3

Amazon S3 is one of the most popular technologies that data engineers use to store data as a data lake. One of the typical applications is to read compressed parquet files as part of the extract process in an ETL (extract-transform-load) pipeline...

February 23, 2022

How to Scale Your Python Application: Multiprocessing Library vs. Bodo

For a long time, the python multiprocessing library has been a solution for many data scientists and engineers to get faster results when processing time is a pain point. I want to show you a much faster solution: Bodo.

January 4, 2022

Extending Parallel Python Computing to FPGAs

Today I’m happy to announce our collaboration with Xilinx, Inc., including their taking an investment in Bodo. This will be meaningful to more than just Xilinx and Bodo customers... It signifies another stage of our democratizing access to large-scale parallel computing using Python.

December 16, 2021

Bodo’s Partnership with Snowflake

Today I’m thrilled to announce our partnership with Snowflake, accompanied by a strategic investment they have made in Bodo.

December 10, 2021

Benchmarking Bodo (Part II): Word Count

Previously, I’ve benchmarked Bodo using the popular example: The Monte Carlo approximation of Pi. In this post, I wanted to test how Bodo performs on another popular data analytics example benchmark: Word Count of Beer Review.

December 1, 2021

Performance and Cost Evaluation of Bodo vs. Spark, Dask, and Ray

Findings derived from the standard TPC-H benchmarks (22 in all) to compare Bodo’s economic and speed performance to Spark, Dask, and Ray for data processing workloads.

October 20, 2021

Why Python Must Be Considered a First Class Programming Platform

Earlier this month, ZDNet reported that Python is challenging C and Java to become the most popular programming language. We’d like to see that happen. But maybe not why you think.

August 24, 2021

Overcoming the Hidden Debt of Big-Data Analytics

What if we could improve analytics performance by 1,000x and and reduce aggregate operational expenses costs to 1/10 -- using the programming techniques and hardware already in use today? With our Series A funding, that’s what we at Bodo are committed to doing.

August 19, 2021

Enterprise-Scale Data Engineering with Python: Evaluation of Bodo Derived from the TPCx-BB Q26 Benchmark

A large Fortune 10 enterprise evaluated Bodo for data engineering workloads in their new data infrastructure. They found that Bodo is much simpler to use and 10x faster than highly optimized Spark with the same cluster setup.

August 4, 2021

Bodo and Pandas: How to Accelerate Large Data Analytics on Your Laptop

Using only a single core for computation on a dataset with millions or even billions of rows can quickly become a disaster. The good news is Bodo has a solution for data scientists when Pandas does not meet their expectations.

July 27, 2021

Simplify and Accelerate Data Science at Scale with Bodo

To be production-ready often requires rewriting a significant portion of the native Python source code in another architecture. But what if you can scale linearly and reliably, in vanilla Python?

July 12, 2021

Making pd.DataFrame.apply Faster with Bodo

The issue with the Pandas apply function is that it can be unbearably slow when working with big data. Bodo makes up for Pandas’ lack of speed while staying equally powerful and user-friendly as Pandas.