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Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: May 28 - June 4, 2026
Dev.to · Alex Merced 1w ago
Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: May 28 - June 4, 2026
The lakehouse projects spent this week doing two things at once. They lined up a remarkable stack of...
Single-Node Data Engineering: DuckDB, DataFusion, Polars, and LakeSail
Dev.to · Alex Merced 2w ago
Single-Node Data Engineering: DuckDB, DataFusion, Polars, and LakeSail
For the past decade, data engineering was synonymous with distributed clusters. If your dataset...
An In-Depth Overview of the Apache Iceberg 1.11.0 Release
Dev.to · Alex Merced 2w ago
An In-Depth Overview of the Apache Iceberg 1.11.0 Release
Apache Iceberg 1.11.0 was officially released on May 19, 2026, marking a major milestone in the...
Semantic Layer Best Practices: 7 Mistakes to Avoid
Dev.to · Alex Merced 3w ago
Semantic Layer Best Practices: 7 Mistakes to Avoid
Semantic layers don't fail because the technology is wrong. They fail because of design decisions...
How a Self-Documenting Semantic Layer Reduces Data Team Toil
Dev.to · Alex Merced 3w ago
How a Self-Documenting Semantic Layer Reduces Data Team Toil
Every data team knows documentation is important. And almost every data team has a backlog of...
Migrating to Apache Iceberg: Strategies for Every Source System
Dev.to · Alex Merced 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Migrating to Apache Iceberg: Strategies for Every Source System
This is Part 15, the final article of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 14 covered hands-on...
Hands-On with Apache Iceberg Using Dremio Cloud
Dev.to · Alex Merced 3w ago
Hands-On with Apache Iceberg Using Dremio Cloud
This is Part 14 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 13 covered streaming approaches. This...
Approaches to Streaming Data into Apache Iceberg Tables
Dev.to · Alex Merced 3w ago
Approaches to Streaming Data into Apache Iceberg Tables
This is Part 13 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 12 covered Python and MPP engines. This...
Using Apache Iceberg with Python and MPP Query Engines
Dev.to · Alex Merced 3w ago
Using Apache Iceberg with Python and MPP Query Engines
This is Part 12 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 11 covered metadata tables. This...
Apache Iceberg Metadata Tables: Querying the Internals
Dev.to · Alex Merced 3w ago
Apache Iceberg Metadata Tables: Querying the Internals
This is Part 11 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 10 covered maintenance operations. This...
Maintaining Apache Iceberg Tables: Compaction, Expiry, and Cleanup
Dev.to · Alex Merced 3w ago
Maintaining Apache Iceberg Tables: Compaction, Expiry, and Cleanup
This is Part 10 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 9 covered how tables degrade. This...
How Data Lake Table Storage Degrades Over Time
Dev.to · Alex Merced 3w ago
How Data Lake Table Storage Degrades Over Time
This is Part 9 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 8 covered embedded catalogs. This...
When Catalogs Are Embedded in Storage
Dev.to · Alex Merced 3w ago
When Catalogs Are Embedded in Storage
This is Part 8 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 7 covered the traditional catalog...
Headless BI: How a Universal Semantic Layer Replaces Tool-Specific Models
Dev.to · Alex Merced 3w ago
Headless BI: How a Universal Semantic Layer Replaces Tool-Specific Models
Your organization uses Tableau for executive dashboards, Power BI for operational reports, and...
Data Virtualization and the Semantic Layer: Query Without Copying
Dev.to · Alex Merced 3w ago
Data Virtualization and the Semantic Layer: Query Without Copying
Every data pipeline you build to move data from one system to another costs you three things: time...
What Are Lakehouse Catalogs? The Role of Catalogs in Apache Iceberg
Dev.to · Alex Merced 3w ago
What Are Lakehouse Catalogs? The Role of Catalogs in Apache Iceberg
This is Part 7 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 6 covered the write process and...
Writing to an Apache Iceberg Table: How Commits and ACID Actually Work
Dev.to · Alex Merced 3w ago
Writing to an Apache Iceberg Table: How Commits and ACID Actually Work
This is Part 6 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 5 covered hidden partitioning. This...
Hidden Partitioning: How Iceberg Eliminates Accidental Full Table Scans
Dev.to · Alex Merced 3w ago
Hidden Partitioning: How Iceberg Eliminates Accidental Full Table Scans
This is Part 5 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 4 covered partition evolution. This...
Partition Evolution: Change Your Partitioning Without Rewriting Data
Dev.to · Alex Merced 3w ago
Partition Evolution: Change Your Partitioning Without Rewriting Data
This is Part 4 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 3 covered metadata-driven performance....
Performance and Apache Iceberg's Metadata
Dev.to · Alex Merced 3w ago
Performance and Apache Iceberg's Metadata
This is Part 3 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 2 covered the metadata structures of all...