The Open Lakehouse Explained, Then Built on Your Laptop with Dremio and MinIO
September 10, 2026The five layers of the open lakehouse explained, then a lab: Parquet, Iceberg, Polaris, Arrow, and Ossie running in two containers on your own machine.
The five layers of the open lakehouse explained, then a lab: Parquet, Iceberg, Polaris, Arrow, and Ossie running in two containers on your own machine.
Local Iceberg development environments: in-process catalogs, a Docker Compose stack with MinIO, and CI configurations that run either.
How to build an Apache Iceberg lakehouse that runs fully offline: storage, catalog, compute, cross-zone transfer, compliance, and the failure modes that bite.