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Lakehouse Architecture
8 posts tagged “Lakehouse Architecture”.
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Five-Layer Agentic Lakehouse Architecture
Hand an AI agent a database connection string and broad SQL access, and you have built the fastest possible path to an inconsistent, unauditable, and…
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The State of Apache Iceberg v4 in July 2026: What the Dev List Tells Us About the Format's Next Chapter
If you want to know where Apache Iceberg is headed, do not read the press releases. Read the dev mailing list. I say that as someone who reads it…
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The State of Agentic AI Standards in 2026: MCP, A2A, WebMCP, OSI, and the Protocol Stack Taking Shape
In 2023, an AI agent was a demo. In 2024, it was a framework. In 2025, it was a hundred incompatible frameworks. And in 2026, something genuinely new…
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The State of Apache Arrow in 2026: Ten Years In, the Invisible Standard Is Everywhere
In February 2026, Apache Arrow turned ten years old. The first commit landed on February 5th, 2016, and the anniversary passed the way Arrow itself…
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The State of Apache Parquet in 2026: The Quiet Format Enters Its Loudest Decade
Apache Parquet is thirteen years old, holds more of the world's analytical data than any format ever created, and for most of its life has been the…
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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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The State of Streaming to Apache Iceberg in July 2026: Every Path, Its Latency, and What to Do When Seconds Are Not Fast Enough
The most common architecture question I get in 2026 is no longer "should we use Iceberg." That one is settled. The question now is "how fresh can our…
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Apache Iceberg v4 Roadmap: Adaptive Metadata Trees, Single-File Commits, and the Delta Convergence
Apache Iceberg v4 is not a single feature release. It is a set of architectural proposals: adaptive metadata trees, single-file commits, relative…