Posts - Page 18
All the articles I've posted, page 18.
- 31 MIN READ•Jul 25, 2026
Governing What Agents Cost You
Agents break the four assumptions analytics platforms were built on. A practical guide to identity, budgets, semantic layers, caching, and instrumentation.
AI agentscost governancedata platform - 31 MIN READ•Jul 25, 2026
Every AI Model Family That Matters in Mid-2026
A full survey of the AI model landscape in mid-2026: frontier families, open-weight labs, local inference, specialists, and how to build a routing layer.
AI modelsLLMopen weights - 30 MIN READ•Jul 25, 2026
Freshness Is a Contract, Not a Note on a Dashboard
How to turn data freshness into a contract with a measurable budget, an owner, and consequences, so AI agents know how old the numbers are before they act.
data freshnessdata qualityapache iceberg - 31 MIN READ•Jul 25, 2026
The Apache Iceberg Market in the Middle of 2026
A survey of the Apache Iceberg market in July 2026: the state of the specification, platform support, the acquisition wave, the catalog contest, and how.
apache iceberglakehousedata engineering - 31 MIN READ•Jul 25, 2026
The Whole Lakehouse Fits on Your Laptop Now
Consumer hardware, columnar formats, single-node engines, and the Iceberg REST catalog crossed a threshold: a large share of cluster work now runs locally.
duckdbapache icebergdatafusion - 30 MIN READ•Jul 25, 2026
Iceberg's Next Version Depends on Decisions Being Made in Parquet
The Iceberg and Parquet specifications are co-evolving. Several of the most consequential Iceberg v4 proposals are waiting on Parquet work.
apache icebergapache parquetvariant type - 30 MIN READ•Jul 25, 2026
Building a Lakehouse That Stays Inside the Border
Residency is a storage location. Sovereignty is who can compel access, who operates the systems, and whether you can leave.
data sovereigntyapache icebergGDPR - 31 MIN READ•Jul 25, 2026
Table Maintenance Stopped Being a Product
Iceberg table maintenance commoditized when every platform started shipping it. What the six operations are, what they cost, and the observability you.
apache icebergcompactiontable maintenance - 31 MIN READ•Jul 25, 2026
The Model Class Enterprise Data Teams Are Not Using Yet
How tabular foundation models predict on structured rows in one forward pass with no training run, where they beat gradient boosting and LLMs, and licensing.
tabular foundation modelsTabPFNmachine learning - 31 MIN READ•Jul 25, 2026
Three Vendors Are Rebuilding the Path From Transaction to Agent
Databricks, Snowflake, and SAP are closing the gap between operational databases and analytical platforms through acquisition, betting on different layers.
data engineeringapache iceberglakehouse - 31 MIN READ•Jul 25, 2026
What Zero-Copy Actually Costs
Six architectures that call themselves zero-copy, where the bytes actually move, the costs left out of business cases, and when copying data is the better deal.
zero-copydata federationdata sharing - 31 MIN READ•Jul 24, 2026
The Filters We Build: Scams, Slop, and the Search for Signal, From Radio Ads to AI
How every media era from radio to AI forces humanity to build new cognitive filters, the shield against scams and the sieve for finding signal in an ocean.
MediaAICognitive Filters