749 tutorials · free to read

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.

Browse by topic

All topics

Latest tutorials

Page 32 of 125
  1. 01The Buyer's Scorecard for Agentic Analytics: Evaluating Tooling in the Enterprise AI Era![Papercut five-part buyer scorecard wheel for agentic analytics](/images/2026/week-2026-07-06/the-buyers-scorecard-for-agentic-analytics-evaluating-tooling-in-the-enterprise-ai-era-diagram-1.png)
  2. 02The Metric Contract Mandate: Standardizing Semantic Layers Before AI Agent Access![Papercut metric contract diagram with central metric and surrounding governance attributes](/images/2026/week-2026-07-06/the-metric-contract-mandate-standardizing-semantic-layers-before-ai-agent-access-diagram-1.png)
  3. 03Trustworthy Concurrency in the Agentic Lakehouse: Reconciling Academic Proofs with High-Frequency Production WritesCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is iceberglakehouse.com. Trustworthy Concurrency in the Agentic Lakehouse: Reconciling Academic…
  4. 04Trustworthy Concurrency in the Agentic Lakehouse: Reconciling Academic Proofs with High-Frequency Production WritesThat distinction matters. The agentic lakehouse is not only a table-format problem. It is an orchestration problem, a governance problem, and an observability problem.
  5. 05When Gatekeepers Panic: The Encyclopédie, Open AI Models, and the Politics of Accessible KnowledgeThe fight over open AI models mirrors the 18th-century suppression of Diderot's Encyclopédie, revealing the same pattern of institutional fear of accessible knowledge.
  6. 06The Who, What, and Why of Semantic Layers: The Layer That Decides Whether Your Numbers Can Be TrustedCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is iceberglakehouse.com. The Who, What, and Why of Semantic Layers: The Layer That Decides…