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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 103 of 133- 015 Reasons Your Data Lakehouse should Embrace Dremio CloudFive reasons to run Dremio Cloud on your data lakehouse: easy setup, low cost, fast queries with reflections, open formats like Iceberg, and a semantic layer.data lakehouseAug 09, 2022
- 02Brief Hands on Intro to Apache IcebergRun the alexmerced/table-format-playground Docker image and try Apache Iceberg with Spark SQL: create a table, insert some records, then query them.frontendJul 18, 2022
- 03Web Development Glossary 2022Plain definitions of 23 web development terms, from abstraction, client and server to frontend, backend, CLI vs GUI, programming styles, REST, GraphQL and RPC.frontendJul 16, 2022
- 04Introduction to The World of Data - (OLTP, OLAP, Data Warehouses, Data Lakes and more)A plain tour of the data world: OLTP vs OLAP, warehouses, data lakes, ETL, and how Parquet, Iceberg and Arrow come together to make a data lakehouse possible.dataJun 20, 2022
- 05Guide to JSON, YAML and TOMLCompare JSON, YAML and TOML by writing the same JavaScript object in all three, with notes on where each format shows up, from package.json to Netlify.devopsJun 11, 2022
- 06Making Multiple API Calls in JavascriptTwo patterns for multiple API calls with fetch and async/await: run independent requests together with Promise.all, or chain one that needs a prior result.javascriptMay 15, 2022