Sometimes when people discover or extensively use something they are eager to share in contexts they think are relevant. There is an issue when those contexts become too broad.
3 times across 3 months is hardly astroturfing for big parquet territory.
FWIW I am the same. I tend to recommend BigQuery and AWS/Athena in various posts. Many times paired with Parquet.
But it is because it makes a lot of things much simpler, and that a lot of people have not realized that. Tooling is moving fast in this space, it is not 2004 anymore.
His arguments are still valid and 86 days is a pretty long time.
I've downloaded many csv files that were mal-formatted (extra commas or tabs etc.), or had dates in non-standard formats. Parquet format probably would not have had these issues!
