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Page 1 of 114- 01The Plan and the Worker: Two Open Specifications for Agent HarnessesTwo open specifications, the Agentic Graph Specification and the Open Agent Profile, turn agent plans and agent identity into portable, reviewable files.AI & AgentsAug 10, 2026
- 02Apache Arrow Flight and ADBC, and Why Database Connectivity Finally Went ColumnarCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is iceberglakehouse.com. A data scientist runs a query against a warehouse. The engine finishes…Data EngineeringAug 06, 2026
- 03Budgeting for Agentic Analytics When Every Question Costs Something DifferentBudgeting for agentic analytics when every question costs something different: token economics, query economics, instrumentation, and the cost controls that actually return.AI & AgentsAug 04, 2026
- 04The Five Layers of an Agentic Lakehouse and Where the MCP Server SitsThe five layers of an agentic lakehouse and where the MCP server sits: storage, catalog, semantic layer, MCP gateway, and agent surface, plus identity, session isolation, and budgets.AI & AgentsAug 04, 2026
- 05Autonomous Table Optimization When Your Query Workload Stops Being PredictableAutonomous table optimization when query workloads stop being predictable: observing file layout and query patterns, scoring compaction work, adaptive sort order, and cost discipline.Apache IcebergAug 04, 2026
- 06Building Apache Iceberg Lakehouses That Run Without an Internet ConnectionHow to build an Apache Iceberg lakehouse that runs fully offline: storage, catalog, compute, cross-zone transfer, compliance, and the failure modes that bite.Data LakehouseAug 04, 2026