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Mastering Apache Iceberg v3 Deletion Vectors for High-Throughput Streaming Ingest

2026-08-19 • Alex Merced

Mastering Apache Iceberg v3 Deletion Vectors for High-Throughput Streaming Ingest

Apache Iceberg v3 deletion vectors for high-throughput streaming ingest: how bitmaps and Puffin files fix CDC write ampl...

2026-08-19 • Alex Merced

The Decoupled Data Lakehouse: Multi-Engine Freedom with Open REST Catalogs

The decoupled data lakehouse: multi-engine freedom with open REST catalogs, credential vending, and an estate that outli...

2026-08-19 • Alex Merced

The Five Layers of an Agentic Lakehouse

The five layers of an agentic lakehouse: Storage, Catalog, Semantic, Gateway, and Agent Surface, and how one question tr...

2026-08-19 • Alex Merced

Goal-Directed Data Quality Agents: Anomaly Quarantine on Apache Iceberg

Goal-directed data quality agents that watch Apache Iceberg tables, detect anomalies, and quarantine suspect data safely...

2026-08-19 • Alex Merced

Managing the TCO of Agentic Analytics: Token Budgets, Query Throttles, and the Economics of Autonomy

Managing the total cost of agentic analytics: token budgets, query throttles, unit economics, and the FinOps discipline ...

2026-08-19 • Alex Merced

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

Metric contracts in 2026: versioned, testable definitions of business logic that let multi-agent frameworks compute reve...

2026-08-19 • Alex Merced

Policy-Aware Lakehouse Telemetry: Building Auditable AI Records on Apache Iceberg for the EU AI Act Era

Policy-aware lakehouse telemetry for the EU AI Act era: build auditable, immutable, governed AI decision records on Apac...

2026-08-19 • Alex Merced

Query Routing at Machine Scale: Multi-Engine Workload Distribution for the Agentic Lakehouse

Query routing at machine scale for the agentic lakehouse: engine selection, acceleration substitution, admission control...

2026-08-19 • Alex Merced

Securing the Agentic Lakehouse Gateway: A Threat Model for Prompt Injection, Exfiltration, and the Firewall That Reads Sentences

A threat model for the agentic lakehouse gateway covering prompt injection, exfiltration, and the firewall that reads se...

2026-08-19 • Alex Merced

Semantic Layer Federation: One Meaning for Data That Lives Everywhere

Build a federated semantic layer across multi-cloud data so one set of governed metric definitions serves BI tools, dash...

2026-08-19 • Alex Merced

Building Lightweight Serverless Ingestion to Apache Iceberg with PyIceberg and DuckDB

Build lightweight serverless ingestion to Apache Iceberg with PyIceberg and DuckDB, running small feeds in functions tha...

2026-08-19 • Alex Merced

Building Stateless AI Tool Gateways with FastMCP, the 2026 MCP Spec, and Kubernetes

How to build stateless AI tool gateways with FastMCP, the 2026 MCP specification, and Kubernetes, and why statelessness ...

2026-08-19 • Alex Merced

Write-Audit-Publish with Apache Iceberg Branches: CI/CD for Your Data

Write-Audit-Publish with Apache Iceberg branches brings CI/CD to your data: stage, audit, then fast-forward to main so c...

2026-08-19 • Alex Merced

Zero-Copy Warehouse Modernization: Moving to Apache Iceberg Without Downtime

A practical guide to modernizing a data warehouse to Apache Iceberg without downtime, using federation first, then redir...

2026-08-10 • Alex Merced

The Plan and the Worker: Two Open Specifications for Agent Harnesses

Two open specifications, the Agentic Graph Specification and the Open Agent Profile, turn agent plans and agent identity...

2026-08-06 • Alex Merced

Apache Arrow Flight and ADBC, and Why Database Connectivity Finally Went Columnar

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2026-08-04 • Alex Merced

Budgeting for Agentic Analytics When Every Question Costs Something Different

Budgeting for agentic analytics when every question costs something different: token economics, query economics, instrum...

2026-08-04 • Alex Merced

The Five Layers of an Agentic Lakehouse and Where the MCP Server Sits

The five layers of an agentic lakehouse and where the MCP server sits: storage, catalog, semantic layer, MCP gateway, an...

2026-08-04 • Alex Merced

Autonomous Table Optimization When Your Query Workload Stops Being Predictable

Autonomous table optimization when query workloads stop being predictable: observing file layout and query patterns, sco...

2026-08-04 • Alex Merced

Building Apache Iceberg Lakehouses That Run Without an Internet Connection

How to build an Apache Iceberg lakehouse that runs fully offline: storage, catalog, compute, cross-zone transfer, compli...

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