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architecture
4 posts tagged “architecture”.
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Why Iceberg v4 Is Really About Making the Cost of Change Proportional to the Change
Read enough of the Apache Iceberg v4 proposals, the design documents, the dev-list threads, the community sync notes, and a pattern emerges that no…
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The Five Layers of an Agentic Lakehouse
Every architecture era gets its reference diagram. The warehouse era had its star schemas and its staging-to-mart flow. The big data era had its…
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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…
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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…