Flight: Apache Arrow’s big upgrade for BI teams

Apache Arrow Flight is a major upgrade to the Arrow project — it’s a network protocol that lets BI tools send Arrow data over the network at wire speeds. This is a big deal for Brown BI teams: Flight makes it easier to move large datasets between tools without losing performance.\n\nWhy this matters: BI teams are always fighting data movement bottlenecks. With Flight, BI tools can share data directly instead of exporting/importing — this saves time and reduces errors.\n\nWhy this matters for us: Brown BI teams are the backbone of corporate reporting — Flight gives them a tool that finally works for modern data pipelines.