architecture

1. August 24, 202630 min read

   Why Iceberg v4 Is Really About Making the Cost of Change Proportional to the Change

   Iceberg v4 is really about making the cost of a change proportional to the change. The principle, the current tax, and what the redesign pays down.

2. August 19, 202630 min read

   The Five Layers of an Agentic Lakehouse

   The five layers of an agentic lakehouse: Storage, Catalog, Semantic, Gateway, and Agent Surface, and how one question travels through all of them.

3. July 6, 202629 min read

   Block vs. Object Storage: A Deep Dive Into the Foundation of Modern Data, and How the Lakehouse Made the Slow Option Fast

   Here is one of the strangest and most consequential plot twists in the history of data infrastructure: over the past decade, the analytics industry...

4. July 6, 202615 min read

   Decoupled Catalogs vs. Managed Tables: Architectural Freedom in the Age of Table Format Convergence

   Open table formats have changed buyer expectations. A few years ago, the question was whether an organization should put more analytical data into...

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