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A working handbook for data and software engineering.

Hands-on tutorials by Alex Merced on Apache Iceberg, the data lakehouse, pipelines, agentic AI, and the languages and tools that hold it all together.

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  1. 01Preparing 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…Data EngineeringJul 06, 2026
  2. 02Federation 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…LakehouseJul 06, 2026
  3. 03A 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 iceberglakehouse.com. A Deep Dive Into File Compression: How Data Gets Smaller, Why Codecs…Data EngineeringJul 06, 2026
  4. 04Enforcing Fine-Grained Security at Machine Speed: Dynamic Access Control for High-Frequency AI AgentsCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is iceberglakehouse.com. Enforcing Fine-Grained Security at Machine Speed: Dynamic Access…AI & AgentsJul 06, 2026
  5. 05The File Format Renaissance: Parquet, Lance, Vortex, Nimble, BtrBlocks, and the New Physics of Columnar StorageCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is iceberglakehouse.com. The File Format Renaissance: Parquet, Lance, Vortex, Nimble, BtrBlocks…Data EngineeringJul 06, 2026
  6. 06High-Performance Columnar Transfers: Combining Apache Arrow Flight and Iceberg REST CatalogsThat is a healthy direction for analytics, BI, data science, and AI agents.LakehouseJul 06, 2026