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A working handbook for data and software engineering.

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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  1. 01Apache Polaris 1.7.0 and the Quiet Work of Making a Catalog TrustworthyApache Polaris 1.7.0 deep dive: idempotent writes, semantic models, stricter credential vending, orphan cleanup, and what the upgrade asks of you.Apache IcebergAug 02, 2026
  2. 02Designing Batch Pipelines That Write Well Into Apache IcebergHow to design batch pipelines that write well into Apache Iceberg: commit strategy, partitioning, sort order, write-audit-publish, and maintenance done right.Apache IcebergAug 02, 2026
  3. 03Apache Iceberg Support Across the Major HyperscalersHow AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure actually support Apache Iceberg: storage, catalogs, maintenance, governance, and interoperability, layer by layer.Apache IcebergAug 02, 2026
  4. 04Guardrails for Analytics Agents That Do More Than Answer QuestionsThe risk isn't agents going rogue, it's agents acting correctly on bad input at machine speed. Here's how to classify actions by consequence, gate capability, and design approval steps people actually use.AI & AgentsJul 28, 2026
  5. 05Building Agent Telemetry Tables in Iceberg That Survive an AuditA practical guide to building agent decision traces in Apache Iceberg that support audit reconstruction, governance review, and cost attribution across sessions.AI & AgentsJul 28, 2026
  6. 06What Agentic Analytics Actually Costs, and How to Keep It BoundedAgent analytics generates two cost streams that scale on different variables. Here's the arithmetic, the levers that actually move the number, and how to build attribution before you need it.AI & AgentsJul 28, 2026