📰 Dev.to · Alex Merced

The Filters We Build: How Every New Medium Rewires Our Defenses, From Radio Ads to AI Slop

Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: July 16 to July 23, 2026

Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: July 11 to July 18, 2026

When Gatekeepers Panic: The Encyclopédie, Open AI Models, and the Politics of Accessible Knowledge

Deterministic Data Engineering With AI Harnesses: Using Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, and OpenCode for Data Work You Can Actually Trust

Designing Your Own AI Harness: A Deep Dive Into the Architecture of Agent Loops, Tools, Context, and Control

File Encryption for the Lakehouse: The Terminology, the Machinery, and the Hard Problem of Interoperable Encrypted Tables

A Deep Dive Into File Compression: How Data Gets Smaller, Why Codecs Differ, and What to Actually Use in the Lakehouse

A Reader's Guide to My Books: Which One to Pick Up, Depending on What You're Building

The File Format Renaissance: Parquet, Lance, Vortex, Nimble, BtrBlocks, and the New Physics of Columnar Storage

Lakehouse Table Formats in 2026: Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, Paimon, and DuckLake, How They Work, Where They Stand, and Where They're Going

Block vs. Object Storage: A Deep Dive Into the Foundation of Modern Data, and How the Lakehouse Made the Slow Option Fast

Federation and the Lakehouse: Two Roads to Unified Data Access, and How to Know Which One to Take

Personal Context vs. Shared Context: A Deep Dive Into How Humans and Organizations Should Feed Their AI Agents

The Who, What, and Why of Semantic Layers: The Layer That Decides Whether Your Numbers Can Be Trusted

Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: July 1 to July 8, 2026

The State of Apache Parquet in 2026: The Quiet Format Enters Its Loudest Decade

The State of Apache Arrow in 2026: Ten Years In, the Invisible Standard Is Everywhere

The State of Apache Polaris in July 2026: From Incubating Catalog to the Governance Layer of the Open Lakehouse

The State of Streaming to Apache Iceberg in July 2026: Every Path, Its Latency, and What to Do When Seconds Are Not Fast Enough

The State of Apache Iceberg v4 in July 2026: What the Dev List Tells Us About the Format's Next Chapter

Delete Files vs Deletion Vectors in Apache Iceberg: How V3 Rewrote the Economics of Changing Data

The Variant Type in Apache Iceberg: How Shredding Turns Messy JSON Into Fast Analytics

The State of Agentic AI Standards in 2026: MCP, A2A, WebMCP, OSI, and the Protocol Stack Taking Shape