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Page 13 of 125- 01Building 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
- 02Wiring Analytical Queries to Transactional APIs in Closed-Loop Decision AgentsWiring analytical queries to transactional APIs in closed-loop decision agents: conditional writes, sagas with compensations, decision records, and blast radius controls.AI & AgentsAug 04, 2026
- 03Surviving Optimistic Commit Collisions When Hundreds of Agents Write to IcebergSurviving optimistic commit collisions when hundreds of agents write to Iceberg: which conflicts are real, commit buffers, partitioning, and the patterns that prevent commit storms.Apache IcebergAug 04, 2026
- 04How Iceberg V3 Deletion Vectors Fixed Merge-on-Read for Streaming TablesHow Iceberg V3 deletion vectors replaced accumulating positional delete files and made merge-on-read viable for streaming and CDC tables.Apache IcebergAug 04, 2026
- 05Reading the Apache Iceberg V4 Proposals Before They LandA field guide to the Apache Iceberg V4 proposals: adaptive metadata trees, single-file commits, typed statistics, column families, and what is safe to build on today.Apache IcebergAug 04, 2026
- 06How Iceberg V3 Variant Shredding Changed Semi-Structured Data on S3 TablesHow Iceberg V3's Variant type and Parquet shredding turn JSON columns into prunable typed columns, with real benchmark tradeoffs and a migration path.Apache IcebergAug 04, 2026