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Page 3 of 130- 01Context Engineering for Data AgentsWhy text-to-SQL accuracy collapses on enterprise schemas, the five kinds of context an agent needs, where each one hides, and how to make the semantics legible.AI & AgentsSep 10, 2026
- 02Migrating Into Iceberg Without Moving Dataadd_files, snapshot, and migrate compared: the three in-place paths into Iceberg, the reconciliation each requires, the layout traps, and the rollback story.Apache IcebergSep 10, 2026
- 03Guardrails for AI on Company DataThe control surfaces that actually contain damage once an agent is fooled: identity, permissions, audit trails, and prompt injection at the query layer.Data SecuritySep 10, 2026
- 04What Iceberg Table Maintenance Actually CostsA cost model for compaction, snapshot expiry, orphan cleanup, and manifest rewriting: what each operation spends, on which meter, and how to set a schedule.Apache IcebergSep 10, 2026
- 05Partition Statistics Files in Apache IcebergThe underused Iceberg metadata for planning: what the partition statistics file holds, what the spec guarantees, how to write one, and when it earns its slot.Apache IcebergSep 10, 2026
- 06Running an Iceberg Lakehouse on KubernetesCatalog, maintenance, and compaction as Kubernetes workloads: scheduling classes, job structure, credential flow, and the failures that come from the interaction.Data EngineeringSep 10, 2026