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Page 31 of 133- 01Designing Private, Air-Gapped Data Lakehouses: Scaling Iceberg in Highly Secure, On-Premises CloudsLakehouseJul 06, 2026
- 02Designing 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.Agentic AIJul 06, 2026
- 03Preparing Your Data Lakehouse for the EU AI Act: Auditable Lineage and Data ProvenanceCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is Alex Merced’s Lakehouse Blog. Preparing Your Data Lakehouse for the EU AI Act: Auditable…Data EngineeringJul 06, 2026
- 04Federation and the Lakehouse: Two Roads to Unified Data Access, and How to Know Which One to TakeCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is Alex Merced’s Lakehouse Blog. Federation and the Lakehouse: Two Roads to Unified Data Access…LakehouseJul 06, 2026
- 05Deterministic 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.Data EngineeringJul 06, 2026
- 06A Deep Dive Into File Compression: How Data Gets Smaller, Why Codecs Differ, and What to Actually Use in the LakehouseCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is Alex Merced’s Lakehouse Blog. A Deep Dive Into File Compression: How Data Gets Smaller, Why…Data EngineeringJul 06, 2026