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Hands-on tutorials by Alex Merced on Apache Iceberg, the data lakehouse, pipelines, agentic AI, and the languages and tools that hold it all together.
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Page 1 of 128- 01Agentic Data ArchitectureA six-layer reference architecture for agents on company data: planners, tool boundaries, identity, the semantic layer, and what breaks when a layer is missing.AI & AgentsSep 10, 2026
- 02Running Apache Polaris in ProductionApache Polaris past the quickstart: persistence backends, realm bootstrap, replica token signing, upgrades, backups, and which failures take the lakehouse offline.Apache PolarisSep 10, 2026
- 03What the 2026 Consolidation Means for Open FormatsTabular, Dremio, and a wave of data platform acquisitions: what changes for teams building on open formats and which guarantees survive a change of ownership.Market AnalysisSep 10, 2026
- 04Context Engineering for Data AgentsWhy 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.AI & AgentsSep 10, 2026
- 05Migrating Into Iceberg Without Moving Dataadd_files, snapshot, and migrate compared: the three in-place paths into Iceberg, the reconciliation each requires, the layout traps, and the rollback story.Apache IcebergSep 10, 2026
- 06Guardrails for AI on Company DataThe control surfaces that actually contain damage once an agent is fooled: identity, permissions, audit trails, and prompt injection at the query layer.Data SecuritySep 10, 2026