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8 posts tagged “Governance”.

  1. 28 min read

    Synthetic Data in the Lakehouse: Generation, Governance, and Testing

    A team needs to test a new pipeline against a year of production orders. Production has the data. Production also has names, addresses, payment…

  2. 33 min read

    Governance-as-Code for the Lakehouse: Managing REST Catalog RBAC and Masking in Git

    A security audit asks a simple question: who can read the customers.pii table, and when was that last changed? The data platform team opens four…

  3. 30 min read

    Who Actually Owns an Iceberg Table? Managed, External, and the New Vocabulary of Lakehouse Control

    Two architects are arguing in a design review about whether to use "managed" Iceberg tables, and the argument is unresolvable, because they are using…

  4. 30 min read

    Metric Contracts in 2026: Standardizing Business Logic Across Multi-Agent Frameworks

    For twenty years, the cost of an ambiguous metric was a meeting. Two dashboards disagreed, two teams defended their numbers, someone scheduled the…

  5. 20 min read

    Designing Policy-Aware Telemetry Tables for AI Systems in Apache Iceberg

    Two days ago, on August 2, 2026, the EU AI Act's Article 50 transparency obligations came into application. Many teams had that date circled for a…

  6. 17 min read

    Semantic View Autopilot for AI Governance

    Most data glossaries are wrong by the time you read them. A column gets renamed, a metric changes its grain, a new product line ships, and the human…

  7. 29 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…

  8. 28 min read

    Open Source Foundations, Explained: What Apache, Linux, Eclipse, and Their Peers Actually Do, and Why Governance Differences Matter

    Writing about open data and AI means repeating the same phrases over and over: donated to the Apache Software Foundation, incubating at the Linux…

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