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      <title>Agentic Data Architecture</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A six-layer reference architecture for agents on company data: planners, tool boundaries, identity, the semantic layer, and what breaks when a layer is missing.]]></description>
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      <title>Running Apache Polaris in Production</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Apache Polaris past the quickstart: persistence backends, realm bootstrap, replica token signing, upgrades, backups, and which failures take the lakehouse offline.]]></description>
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      <title>What the 2026 Consolidation Means for Open Formats</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Tabular, Dremio, and a wave of data platform acquisitions: what changes for teams building on open formats and which guarantees survive a change of ownership.]]></description>
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      <title>Context Engineering for Data Agents</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Why text-to-SQL accuracy collapses on enterprise schemas, the five kinds of context an agent needs, where each one hides, and how to make the semantics legible.]]></description>
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      <title>Guardrails for AI on Company Data</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The control surfaces that actually contain damage once an agent is fooled: identity, permissions, audit trails, and prompt injection at the query layer.]]></description>
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      <title>Migrating Into Iceberg Without Moving Data</title>
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      <title>What Iceberg Table Maintenance Actually Costs</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A cost model for compaction, snapshot expiry, orphan cleanup, and manifest rewriting: what each operation spends, on which meter, and how to set a schedule.]]></description>
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      <title>Running an Iceberg Lakehouse on Kubernetes</title>
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      <title>Partition Statistics Files in Apache Iceberg</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The underused Iceberg metadata for planning: what the partition statistics file holds, what the spec guarantees, how to write one, and when it earns its slot.]]></description>
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      <title>What to Assert When You Test an Iceberg Pipeline</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Fixtures, in-memory catalogs, and golden metadata: the assertions that catch wrong rows, unsafe reruns, schema drift, and concurrent-write corruption in CI.]]></description>
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      <title>The 2026 Iceberg REST Catalog Compatibility Report</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A repeatable test for what an Iceberg REST catalog actually serves, a scoring scheme that separates design from breakage, and the 2026 evidence across seven catalogs.]]></description>
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      <title>Serving Iceberg Tables From Two Regions</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Three multi-region topologies that work and one that mostly does not, what an Iceberg commit costs across regions, and where the catalog has to live.]]></description>
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      <title>How Iceberg Catalogs Hand Engines Storage Access</title>
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      <title>Kafka Connect to Iceberg: How the Commit Actually Works</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Exactly-once semantics in the Iceberg sink connector: the coordinator, the control topic, offsets stored inside Iceberg snapshots, and where duplicates still get in.]]></description>
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      <title>What a Query Costs</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Four meters, their real proportions, and how to attribute compute to a query, a table, and a team so a platform can answer what a dashboard costs to run.]]></description>
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      <title>The Open Lakehouse Explained, Then Built on Your Laptop with Dremio and MinIO</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The five layers of the open lakehouse explained, then a lab: Parquet, Iceberg, Polaris, Arrow, and Ossie running in two containers on your own machine.]]></description>
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      <title>Where Lock-In Went</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The format war ended and exit cost did not: where lock-in relocated after open tables won, how to measure it, and which costs are worth keeping down.]]></description>
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      <title>Data Quality Tooling Compared: Great Expectations, Soda, dbt Tests, and Anomaly Detection</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A comparison of Great Expectations, Soda, dbt tests, and anomaly detection, and a layered design that uses each where it fits.]]></description>
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      <title>The Data Team of the Agentic Era: Generalists Owning End-to-End Workflows</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The case for generalists owning end-to-end data workflows with agents, the counterargument, and how to make the transition work.]]></description>
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      <title>dbt on Iceberg: Incremental Models on Open Tables</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[How dbt incremental materializations map to Iceberg operations, and the configuration, predicates, and maintenance that keep them healthy.]]></description>
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