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  1. 01Conversational AI on Managed Iceberg: Exposing Amazon S3 Tables through MCPCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is Alex Merced’s Lakehouse Blog. Conversational AI on Managed Iceberg: Exposing Amazon S3 Tables…
  2. 02The Buyer's Scorecard for Agentic Analytics: Evaluating Tooling in the Enterprise AI EraCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is Alex Merced’s Lakehouse Blog. The Buyer’s Scorecard for Agentic Analytics: Evaluating Tooling…
  3. 03Conversational AI on Managed Iceberg: Exposing Amazon S3 Tables through MCP![Architecture diagram showing AI agent access through MCP, catalog governance, and managed Iceberg tables](/images/2026/week-2026-07-06/conversational-ai-on-managed-iceberg-exposing-amazon-s3-tables-through-mcp-diagram-1.png)
  4. 04Decoupled Catalogs vs. Managed Tables: Architectural Freedom in the Age of Table Format Convergence![Papercut comparison of a bundled managed table stack and a decoupled open catalog stack](/images/2026/week-2026-07-06/decoupled-catalogs-vs-managed-tables-architectural-freedom-in-the-age-of-table-format-convergence-diagram-1.png)
  5. 05Decoupled Catalogs vs. Managed Tables: Architectural Freedom in the Age of Table Format ConvergenceCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is Alex Merced’s Lakehouse Blog. Decoupled Catalogs vs. Managed Tables: Architectural Freedom in…
  6. 06Designing 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)