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Fundamentals: What Is Zarr? A Cloud-Native Format for Tensor Data

May 20, 2025

Why scientists, data engineers, and developers are turning to Zarr Often the biggest bottleneck in your workflow isn’t your code...

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Lindsey Nield

Lindsey Nield

Zarr takes Cloud-Native Geospatial by storm

May 6, 2025

Our takeaways from the Cloud-Native Geospatial conference on Zarr’s surging adoption and its impact on the future of Earth Observation...

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Joe Hamman

Joe Hamman

Co-founder and CTO

Learning about Icechunk consistency with a clichéd but instructive example

April 23, 2025

In this post we’ll show what can happen when more than one process write to the same Icechunk repository concurrently,...

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Sebastian Galkin

Sebastian Galkin

Staff Engineer

Fundamentals: What is Cloud-Optimized Scientific Data?

April 17, 2025

Why naively lifting scientific data to the cloud falls flat. Scientific formats predate the cloud There are exabytes of scientific...

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Tom Nicholas

Tom Nicholas

Forward Engineer

Accelerating Xarray with Zarr-Python 3

February 20, 2025

zarr-python’s performance paradox Last month, we released Zarr-Python 3.0 - a ground-up rewrite of the library (read more about it...

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Davis Bennet

Davis Bennet

Open Source Engineer

Zarr-Python 3 is here!

January 9, 2025 | 5 min read

Note: This post was originally published on the Zarr developer blog. After more than a year of development, we’re thrilled to...

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Joe Hamman

Joe Hamman

Co-founder and CTO

Announcing Icechunk!

October 15, 2024 | 13 min read

TLDR We are excited to announce the release of the Icechunk storage engine, a new open-source library and specification for the storage...

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Ryan Abernathey

Ryan Abernathey

Co-Founder and CEO

Toward Zarr-Python 3.0

May 9, 2024 | 4 min read

Note: This post was originally published on the Zarr developer blog. We released Zarr-Python 2.18.0 this week. Although this release was quite light...

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Ryan Abernathey

Ryan Abernathey

Co-Founder and CEO