The Agent Is Now a Named Coworker, and It Needs a File Format
Open your terminal and count the agent CLIs installed on it. On my machine the number is fourteen. Each one was configured separately. Each…
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Data Engineering, Lakehouses, and the Future of AI
Alex talks technology, data, software development and AI
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Welcome to my digital garden. This is where I share my deep dives, tutorials, and thoughts on the evolving data landscape.
As the Head of Developer Relations at Dremio and author of Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide, Apache Polaris: The Definitive Guide, and Architecting an Apache Iceberg Lakehouse, my mission is to make complex data architectures accessible to everyone.
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- Apache Iceberg & Polaris: Comprehensive guides on open table formats and catalogs.
- Data Lakehouse Architecture: Strategies for building cost-effective, high-performance data platforms.
- AI & RAG: Exploring the intersection of data engineering and Large Language Models.
- Dremio: Tips and tricks for using the Agentic Lakehouse Platform.
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Your Agent Should Answer the Phone: A Field Guide to AI Gateways on Slack, Discord, Telegram, Signal, and Teams
The most useful thing my terminal agent ever did happened while I was nowhere near a terminal. I was in line at an airport, a build had…
Graphs in AI Engineering Have Solved Three Problems. The Fourth Is the Plan.
Ask an agent to ship a feature and watch what it does. It reads some files, decides on an order of operations, writes code, runs tests,…