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Agentic AI

9 posts tagged “Agentic AI”.

  1. 30 min read

    Agentic Data Architecture

    Most agent projects on company data are built the same way. Someone connects a model to a warehouse, gives it a SQL tool, wraps it in a chat…

  2. 30 min read

    Guardrails for AI on Company Data

    The security review question that ends agent projects is short: what is this thing allowed to do? Teams usually answer it by describing the system…

  3. 23 min read

    The Plan and the Worker: Two Open Specifications for Agent Harnesses

    Every agent harness solves the same two problems, and almost every one of them solves both privately. The first problem is decomposition. A task…

  4. 18 min read

    The Chase-Catch Gap in Enterprise AI Agents

    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, and it…

  5. 29 min read

    The State of Agentic AI Standards in 2026: MCP, A2A, WebMCP, OSI, and the Protocol Stack Taking Shape

    In 2023, an AI agent was a demo. In 2024, it was a framework. In 2025, it was a hundred incompatible frameworks. And in 2026, something genuinely new…

  6. 14 min read

    Lakehouse as the Operating Layer for Agentic AI

    Agentic AI announcements are useful when they validate the need for governed data, semantic context, and cost-aware execution. For data leaders…

  7. 21 min read

    The Ultimate Guide to Open Table Formats - Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, Paimon, and DuckLake

    Understanding Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, Paimon, and DuckLake

  8. 41 min read

    The 2025 & 2026 Ultimate Guide to the Data Lakehouse and the Data Lakehouse Ecosystem

    What is the Data Lakehouse and the Data Lakehouse Ecosystem? This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know about the Data Lakehouse architecture, open table formats like Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Apache Hudi, and Apache Paimon, and the modern data ecosystem that supports them.

  9. 9 min read

    Unlocking the Power of Agentic AI with Apache Iceberg and Dremio

    Unlocking the Power of Agentic AI with Apache Iceberg and Dremio

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