775 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- Apache Iceberg201
- Data Lakehouse201
- Data Engineering183
- Dremio66
- AI Agents59
- developer tools35
- Apache Polaris33
- AI coding tools31
- agentic development31
- MCP29
- Semantic Layer29
- AI28
- Databases28
- Lakehouse26
Latest tutorials
Page 35 of 130- 01Migrating Proprietary Warehouses to Open Lakehouses: The 2026 Playbook for Zero-Copy Metadata TranslationCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is iceberglakehouse.com. Migrating Proprietary Warehouses to Open Lakehouses: The 2026 Playbook…Data EngineeringJul 06, 2026
- 02The State of Agentic AI Standards in 2026: MCP, A2A, WebMCP, OSI, and the Protocol Stack Taking ShapeThe agentic AI protocol stack is solidifying in 2026 — MCP for tools, A2A for agents, WebMCP for the web, OSI for semantics, payments, identity, and security.Agentic AIJul 06, 2026
- 03The State of Apache Parquet in 2026: The Quiet Format Enters Its Loudest DecadeApache Parquet in 2026 — variant types, geospatial, ALP encoding, footer redesign, the versioning debate, and how the decade-old format is renovating for AI workloads.Apache ParquetJul 06, 2026
- 04The State of Apache Arrow in 2026: Ten Years In, the Invisible Standard Is EverywhereApache Arrow at 10 — ADBC, Flight SQL, nanoarrow, the AI reinterpretation, and how an in-memory standard eliminated the copy tax across the data stack.Apache ArrowJul 06, 2026
- 05The State of Apache Polaris in July 2026: From Incubating Catalog to the Governance Layer of the Open LakehouseApache Polaris as a TLP — federation, credential vending, semantic layers, lineage, and how the open catalog became the governance plane of the multi-engine lakehouse.Apache PolarisJul 06, 2026
- 06The State of Streaming to Apache Iceberg in July 2026: Every Path, Its Latency, and What to Do When Seconds Are Not Fast EnoughEvery path for streaming data into Iceberg in 2026 — Flink, Spark, Kafka Connect, broker-native, managed pipelines — with honest latency numbers and sub-second hybrid architectures.Apache IcebergJul 06, 2026