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593 posts on Apache Iceberg, lakehouse architecture, data engineering and applied AI.
If you have followed the data world for the past few years, you have heard the phrase "open lakehouse" often enough that it may have…
In the first quarter of 2026, the price of computer memory did something it had never done in the modern history of the component. DRAM…
In July 2026, the artificial intelligence industry produced one of the most instructive stories it has ever told on itself, and it told the…
Most analytics agents in production today answer questions. You type a request, the agent generates SQL, runs it, and hands back a chart or…
Apache Iceberg solved a hard problem: it gave analytics teams a table format that multiple engines can read and write without corrupting…
Traditional lakehouse maintenance runs on a schedule. Someone writes a cron job to compact small files at 2 a.m., another to refresh a…
Building an impressive AI agent demo takes an afternoon. Wire an LLM to a few tools, give it a system prompt, point it at a sample dataset,…
A single analyst running a report might touch three tables and issue a dozen queries in an afternoon. An AI agent working the same problem…
Most lakehouse roadmaps written in the last few years had the same top items: migrate off the expensive warehouse, cut storage costs,…
Hand an AI agent a database connection string and broad SQL access, and you have built the fastest possible path to an inconsistent,…
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