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29 posts tagged “Lakehouse”.

  1. 20 min read

    Defending the Lakehouse Gateway Against Prompt Injection and Data Exfiltration

    A support ticket contains a customer's message. Somewhere in that message is a sentence addressed to nobody who works at your company: ignore your…

  2. 31 min read

    Designing Batch Pipelines That Write Well Into Apache Iceberg

    The pipeline runs at 2 a.m. It reads yesterday's extract, does its transformations, and writes to an Apache Iceberg table. Six months later the same…

  3. 30 min read

    Federating Oracle With an Open Lakehouse Instead of Migrating It

    A team is eighteen months into moving reporting off Oracle. Forty percent of the tables are in Iceberg. The remaining sixty percent are the hard…

  4. 31 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…

  5. 30 min read

    The Whole Lakehouse Fits on Your Laptop Now

    A colleague spent forty minutes last month provisioning a cluster to profile a 90 GB Parquet dataset. Startup, dependency resolution, a permissions…

  6. 30 min read

    Iceberg's Next Version Depends on Decisions Being Made in Parquet

    Follow an Apache Iceberg design discussion about column-level updates long enough and it stops being an Iceberg discussion. The question of whether a…

  7. 30 min read

    Building a Lakehouse That Stays Inside the Border

    A manufacturer in southern Germany asked me a question during an architecture review that I have thought about since. Their data sat in a Frankfurt…

  8. 31 min read

    Table Maintenance Stopped Being a Product

    A team I worked with had a dashboard that loaded in three seconds in January and forty seconds in June. Data volume grew 20 percent over that period.…

  9. 31 min read

    Three Vendors Are Rebuilding the Path From Transaction to Agent

    A customer changes their shipping address in your order system at 9:14 a.m. At 9:20 a.m. someone asks an AI agent where that order is going. The…

  10. 18 min read

    Data Lakehouse Open Standards for AI Agents

    A single analyst running a report might touch three tables and issue a dozen queries in an afternoon. An AI agent working the same problem can issue…

  11. 18 min read

    Dremio Lakehouse AI Report: Agentic Lessons

    Most lakehouse roadmaps written in the last few years had the same top items: migrate off the expensive warehouse, cut storage costs, consolidate on…

  12. 17 min read

    Zero-Copy Mirroring to Open Iceberg Tables

    The most expensive part of moving off a proprietary warehouse is usually not the compute contract. It is the copy. Rewriting terabytes of data into a…

  13. 15 min read

    Migrating Proprietary Warehouses to Open Lakehouses: The 2026 Playbook for Zero-Copy Metadata Translation

    Every warehouse migration sounds simpler before the first inventory. Then the team discovers old dashboards, hidden dependencies, undocumented stored…

  14. 14 min read

    Lakehouse as the Operating Layer for Agentic AI

    Agentic AI announcements are useful when they validate the need for governed data, semantic context, and cost-aware execution. For data leaders…

  15. 13 min read

    What Is LTAP in the Lakehouse?

    Lakehouse transactional analytical processing is useful only when teams define freshness, isolation, and workload boundaries clearly. For data…

  16. 14 min read

    Agentic Lakehouse Concurrency and Isolation

    Agentic writes need isolation contracts, not just write permissions. That is the useful lens for agentic lakehouse concurrency in June 2026. The…

  17. 14 min read

    Anatomy of an Agentic Lakehouse

    An Agentic Lakehouse is storage, catalog governance, semantic context, and agents working as one operating model. That is the useful lens for agentic…

  18. 14 min read

    Lakehouse Context Layers with Atlan and Iceberg v3

    The context layer explains what lakehouse data means, which is the part table formats do not solve alone. That is the useful lens for lakehouse…

  19. 14 min read

    Goal-Directed Analytics Agents on Apache Iceberg

    The next step after text-to-SQL is a governed action loop with checks before every external effect. That is the useful lens for goal-directed…

  20. 14 min read

    Iceberg Remote Signing for Regulated Datasets

    Remote signing is the stricter pattern for lakehouse storage security because clients request signed file operations instead of receiving storage…

  21. 14 min read

    Apache Iceberg v3 Deletion Vectors on Snowflake

    Deletion vectors matter because row-level changes should not require a full rewrite of every affected data file. That is the useful lens for Apache…

  22. 15 min read

    CDC Without Complexity Using Iceberg v3 Row Lineage

    Row lineage gives Iceberg a native way to tell incremental consumers which rows changed and when they changed. That is the useful lens for Iceberg v3…

  23. 14 min read

    The 2026 Guide to Iceberg View Federation

    Portable views are the missing logic layer between open tables and multi-engine analytics. That is the useful lens for Iceberg view federation in…

  24. 14 min read

    Implementing MCP in the Lakehouse

    MCP gives AI clients a standard way to call governed lakehouse tools instead of guessing how to query your data. That is the useful lens for MCP…

  25. 14 min read

    Modern Python Tooling for Apache Iceberg

    Python has become a practical Iceberg control plane for metadata work, catalog automation, and smaller operational workflows. That is the useful lens…

  26. 14 min read

    REST Catalog Credential Vending for Lakehouse Security

    Credential vending lets the catalog issue short-lived storage access instead of spreading permanent cloud keys across every engine. That is the…

  27. 14 min read

    Securing Agent Identities in the Lakehouse

    Every lakehouse agent needs its own identity, scope, and audit trail. That is the useful lens for agent identities lakehouse in June 2026. The market…

  28. 14 min read

    Bidirectional Iceberg Writes with Horizon Catalog

    Bidirectional Iceberg interoperability changes managed Iceberg from a read surface into a shared write contract. That is the useful lens for…

  29. 14 min read

    Zero-Copy Mirroring for Modern Lakehouse Migration

    Zero-copy mirroring gives teams a safer migration path because they can expose a lakehouse surface before they duplicate every byte or rewrite every…

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