Open Source

1. September 21, 202631 min read

   Why the Iceberg DataFusion Integration Is Moving to Apache DataFusion

   Why the Iceberg DataFusion integration moved to the DataFusion project, and what the split means for users, Comet, and iceberg-rust contributors.

2. August 2, 202631 min read

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

   Apache Polaris 1.7.0 deep dive: idempotent writes, semantic models, stricter credential vending, orphan cleanup, and what the upgrade asks of you.

3. July 24, 202631 min read

   The Own Goal: What the Hugging Face Breach Reveals About Why Open Models Are a Security Necessity

   How the 2026 Hugging Face breach proved that open models are a security necessity, closed models failed to defend, an open Chinese model succeeded.

4. July 6, 202628 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 F...

5. May 25, 20267 min read

   Use Hermes Agent for Free With DeepSeek V4 and Slack

   Install Hermes Agent, choose a current DeepSeek provider, and connect Slack through Socket Mode with the tokens, scopes, events, and allowlist Hermes requires.

6. March 19, 20244 min read

   5 Open Source Data Projects You Should Be Following

   Apache Iceberg, Apache Arrow, Nessie, Ibis, Substrait

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