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  1. 01Event-Driven Table Compaction with AgentsEvent-driven compaction is valuable when agents coordinate maintenance with workload signals, table health, and commit safety.
  2. 02Fabric Agentic Analytics and Lakehouse Schema DesignMicrosoft Fabric agentic analytics is a reminder that schemas, semantic models, and governed lakehouse design now shape AI behavior.
  3. 03Fine-Grained Security for AI AgentsMachine-speed analytics requires machine-enforced policy, identity, masking, filtering, and audit controls.
  4. 04Iceberg v4 Performance: Root Manifests and CallsApache Iceberg v4 discussion should focus on planning cost, metadata layout, and object storage round trips, not vague claims about faster tables.
  5. 05What Is LTAP in the Lakehouse?Lakehouse transactional analytical processing is useful only when teams define freshness, isolation, and workload boundaries clearly.
  6. 06The Model Is Not the MoatEnterprise AI advantage increasingly comes from governed context, semantic models, and operational data contracts, not only from model choice.