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  1. 01Designing Idempotent Pipelines in the Agentic Lakehouse: Eliminating Double-Write AnomaliesCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is iceberglakehouse.com. Designing Idempotent Pipelines in the Agentic Lakehouse: Eliminating…
  2. 02File Encryption for the Lakehouse: The Terminology, the Machinery, and the Hard Problem of Interoperable Encrypted TablesCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is iceberglakehouse.com. File Encryption for the Lakehouse: The Terminology, the Machinery, and…
  3. 03Implementing Positional Deletes in Iceberg v3: Streamlining Merge-on-Read for Fast-Inbound Event Lakes![Papercut diagram comparing copy-on-write and merge-on-read update flows for an Iceberg event lake](/images/2026/week-2026-07-06/implementing-positional-deletes-in-iceberg-v3-streamlining-merge-on-read-for-fast-inbound-event-lakes-diagram-1.png)
  4. 04Mapping the Variant Type in Iceberg v3: Standardizing Semi-Structured AI JSON Payloads![Layered papercut diagram showing nested AI payloads flowing into an Iceberg table with promoted governed columns](/images/2026/week-2026-07-06/mapping-the-variant-type-in-iceberg-v3-standardizing-semi-structured-ai-json-payloads-diagram-1.png)
  5. 05The 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol Release Candidate: What the Stateless Spec Means for Data PlatformsCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is iceberglakehouse.com. The 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol Release Candidate: What the…
  6. 06The Metric Contract Mandate: Standardizing Semantic Layers Before AI Agent AccessCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is iceberglakehouse.com. The Metric Contract Mandate: Standardizing Semantic Layers Before AI…