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  1. 01Designing Idempotent Pipelines in the Agentic Lakehouse: Eliminating Double-Write Anomalies![Papercut duplicate write failure path versus idempotent retry path in a lakehouse pipeline](/images/2026/week-2026-07-06/designing-idempotent-pipelines-in-the-agentic-lakehouse-eliminating-double-write-anomalies-diagram-1.png)
  2. 02Designing Private, Air-Gapped Data Lakehouses: Scaling Iceberg in Highly Secure, On-Premises Clouds![Papercut architecture showing private air-gapped lakehouse with storage, Iceberg, catalog, query, semantic layer, and audit inside secure boundary](/images/2026/week-2026-07-06/designing-private-air-gapped-data-lakehouses-scaling-iceberg-in-highly-secure-on-premises-clouds-diagram-1.png)
  3. 03Designing Your Own AI Harness: A Deep Dive Into the Architecture of Agent Loops, Tools, Context, and ControlA deep dive into custom AI harness architecture: model layers, tool design, context management, permissions, control budgets, persistence, orchestration, and evaluation systems.
  4. 04Deterministic Data Engineering With AI Harnesses: Using Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, and OpenCode for Data Work You Can Actually TrustHow to use AI agent harnesses for data engineering without losing determinism, reproducibility, and trust in your data pipelines and analytics.
  5. 05Preparing Your Data Lakehouse for the EU AI Act: Auditable Lineage and Data ProvenanceCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is iceberglakehouse.com. Preparing Your Data Lakehouse for the EU AI Act: Auditable Lineage and…
  6. 06Federation and the Lakehouse: Two Roads to Unified Data Access, and How to Know Which One to TakeCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is iceberglakehouse.com. Federation and the Lakehouse: Two Roads to Unified Data Access, and How…