Tag: data-engineering

2026-06-08 • Alex Merced

The Complete Guide to Agentic Coding Tools in 2026

A deep dive into the four categories of agentic coding tools dominating 2026: CLI agents, desktop IDEs, 24/7 autonomous ...

2026-06-08 • Alex Merced

Agentic Lakehouse Concurrency and Isolation

How Iceberg optimistic concurrency control, partition-level isolation, and idempotency keys enable safe concurrent write...

2026-06-08 • Alex Merced

Anatomy of an Agentic Lakehouse

The four-layer architecture of the agentic lakehouse: object storage, Apache Iceberg table format, Apache Polaris catalo...

2026-06-08 • Alex Merced

Apache Iceberg v4 Roadmap and Metadata Trees

A deep technical breakdown of Apache Iceberg v4's proposed architecture: adaptive metadata trees, one-file commits, rela...

2026-06-08 • Alex Merced

Lakehouse Context Layers with Atlan and Iceberg v3

Lakehouse context layers bridge the gap between raw Iceberg tables and AI agents that need business meaning. Atlan and S...

2026-06-08 • Alex Merced

Real-Time Agentic Analytics with ClickHouse

ClickHouse has become the leading real-time analytics engine for AI agent workloads, with event-loop architectures that ...

2026-06-08 • Alex Merced

Composable Analytics Beats Metric Catalogs

Metric catalogs define what terms mean. Composable analytics defines how terms combine, transform, and relate. For AI ag...

2026-06-08 • Alex Merced

Goal-Directed Analytics Agents on Apache Iceberg

How goal-directed analytics agents decompose business questions into sub-tasks, execute action loops over Apache Iceberg...

2026-06-08 • Alex Merced

Iceberg Remote Signing for Regulated Datasets

Iceberg REST catalog remote signing provides per-file pre-signed URL access for regulated datasets. How it differs from ...

2026-06-08 • Alex Merced

Apache Iceberg v3 Deletion Vectors on Snowflake

Apache Iceberg v3 deletion vectors replace positional delete files with binary bitmaps in Puffin files, delivering up to...

2026-06-08 • Alex Merced

CDC Without Complexity Using Iceberg v3 Row Lineage

Iceberg v3 row lineage adds _row_id and _last_updated_sequence_number to every table, enabling native change data captur...

2026-06-08 • Alex Merced

The 2026 Guide to Iceberg View Federation

Iceberg views standardize SQL view definitions across engines, enabling view federation across Polaris, Nessie, and Grav...

2026-06-08 • Alex Merced

Implementing MCP in the Lakehouse

How to build a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes lakehouse tables and semantic views as AI-accessible too...

2026-06-08 • Alex Merced

Microsoft Fabric Build 2026 Agentic Analytics Stack

Microsoft Build 2026 revealed an agentic analytics stack built on Fabric IQ, OneLake Iceberg support, and semantic model...

2026-06-08 • Alex Merced

Modern Python Tooling for Apache Iceberg

PyIceberg, IceFrame, and the Iceberg CLI form a complete Python toolchain for Iceberg table management. Each tool target...

2026-06-08 • Alex Merced

REST Catalog Credential Vending for Lakehouse Security

Iceberg REST catalog credential vending issues short-lived, table-scoped storage tokens for S3, ADLS, and GCS. How Polar...

2026-06-08 • Alex Merced

SaaS Buyers Now Inspect Your Semantic Layer

Enterprise SaaS procurement in 2026 evaluates how platforms expose data to AI agents. Semantic layers have become a deci...

2026-06-08 • Alex Merced

Securing Agent Identities in the Lakehouse

How OAuth 2.0 token exchange, OAuth 2.1 device authorization grant, credential vending, and fine-grained access control ...

2026-06-08 • Alex Merced

Bidirectional Iceberg Writes with Horizon Catalog

Snowflake Horizon Catalog enables bidirectional Iceberg writes from external engines like Spark and Trino, powered by Ap...