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Lakehouse Architecture

8 posts tagged “Lakehouse Architecture”.

  1. 18 min read

    Five-Layer Agentic Lakehouse Architecture

    An in-depth exploration of five-layer agentic lakehouse architecture

  2. 30 min read

    The State of Apache Iceberg v4 in July 2026: What the Dev List Tells Us About the Format's Next Chapter

    What the Iceberg v4 dev list tells us about adaptive metadata trees, single-file commits, column updates, and the format's next chapter in mid-2026.

  3. 29 min read

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

    The agentic AI protocol stack is solidifying in 2026, MCP for tools, A2A for agents, WebMCP for the web, OSI for semantics, payments, identity.

  4. 28 min read

    The State of Apache Arrow in 2026: Ten Years In, the Invisible Standard Is Everywhere

    Apache Arrow at 10, ADBC, Flight SQL, nanoarrow, the AI reinterpretation, and how an in-memory standard eliminated the copy tax across the data stack.

  5. 28 min read

    The State of Apache Parquet in 2026: The Quiet Format Enters Its Loudest Decade

    Apache Parquet in 2026, variant types, geospatial, ALP encoding, footer redesign, the versioning debate, and how the decade-old format is renovating.

  6. 29 min read

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

    Apache Polaris as a TLP, federation, credential vending, semantic layers, lineage, and how the open catalog became the governance plane.

  7. 30 min read

    The State of Streaming to Apache Iceberg in July 2026: Every Path, Its Latency, and What to Do When Seconds Are Not Fast Enough

    Every path for streaming data into Iceberg in 2026, Flink, Spark, Kafka Connect, broker-native, managed pipelines, with honest latency numbers.

  8. 14 min read

    Apache Iceberg v4 Roadmap: Adaptive Metadata Trees, Single-File Commits, and the Delta Convergence

    A deep technical breakdown of Apache Iceberg v4's proposed architecture: adaptive metadata trees, one-file commits, relative paths, column families.

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