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Dev.to · Alex Merced
6d ago
Why Dremio's Value Is Unique to Apache Iceberg Lakehouses and Agentic Analytics
Most data teams have already made two decisions, even if they haven't written them down yet. The...
Dev.to · Alex Merced
6d 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...
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...
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...
Dev.to · Alex Merced
2w 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...
Dev.to · Alex Merced
2w 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...
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2w 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...
Dev.to · Alex Merced
2w 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...
Dev.to · Alex Merced
2w 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...
Dev.to · Alex Merced
2w 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...
Dev.to · Alex Merced
2w 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...
Dev.to · Alex Merced
2w 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...
Dev.to · Alex Merced
2w 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...
Dev.to · Alex Merced
2w ago
When Catalogs Are Embedded in Storage
This is Part 8 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 7 covered the traditional catalog...
Dev.to · Alex Merced
2w 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...
Dev.to · Alex Merced
2w 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...
Dev.to · Alex Merced
2w 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...
Dev.to · Alex Merced
2w 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...
Dev.to · Alex Merced
2w 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...
Dev.to · Alex Merced
2w 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....
Dev.to · Alex Merced
2w 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...
Dev.to · Alex Merced
3w ago
AI Weekly: Google Reshapes the Coding Stack, Claude Pulls Ahead, and the Agent Protocol Stack Hardens (Week of May 13-20, 2026)
This week the AI industry served up one of its busiest Google I/O keynotes in years, a meaningful...
Dev.to · Alex Merced
3w ago
Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: May 13-20, 2026
This was a release-heavy week across the lakehouse projects. Iceberg pushed 1.11.0 through a fourth...
Dev.to · Alex Merced
3w ago
The Role of the Semantic Layer in Data Governance
Most organizations have a data governance policy. It lives in a Confluence page. It defines who...
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