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Page 17 of 130- 01The 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
- 02Autonomous 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
- 03Building 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
- 04Wiring 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
- 05Surviving 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
- 06How 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