Catalog

1. August 4, 202620 min read

   How the Iceberg REST Catalog Turned Into the Lakehouse Control Plane

   A dbt run updates a fact table and two dimension tables. The fact table commit succeeds. The second dimension commit fails on a conflict. For the…

2. August 2, 202631 min read

   Apache Polaris 1.7.0 and the Quiet Work of Making a Catalog Trustworthy

   A Spark job commits a table update. The catalog writes the change to Postgres. Then the network drops between the catalog and the client, and the…

3. July 25, 202631 min read

   The Apache Iceberg Market in the Middle of 2026

   Two years ago the interesting question was whether your data platform supported Apache Iceberg. Today every platform claims it does, and the claim…

4. July 6, 202629 min read

   The State of Apache Polaris in July 2026: From Incubating Catalog to the Governance Layer of the Open Lakehouse

   I have a personal stake in this one, so let me declare it up front. Apache Polaris was co-created by Snowflake and Dremio, I work at Dremio, and I…

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