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Max Jones

Cloud Engineer @ DevSeed

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Variable length chunks in Zarr

May 5, 2026

A new extension to Zarr just landed: the rectilinear chunk grid lets you specify arbitrarily sized chunks along each axis, aligning chunk boundaries with the natural structure of your data instead of forcing a regular grid.

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Variable length chunks in Zarr

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