Posts - Page 2
All the articles I've posted, page 2.
- 31 MIN READ•Sep 10, 2026
The 2026 Iceberg REST Catalog Compatibility Report
A repeatable test for what an Iceberg REST catalog actually serves, a scoring scheme that separates design from breakage, and the 2026 evidence across seven catalogs.
Iceberg REST catalogcatalog compatibilityApache Polaris - 31 MIN READ•Sep 10, 2026
Serving Iceberg Tables From Two Regions
Three multi-region topologies that work and one that mostly does not, what an Iceberg commit costs across regions, and where the catalog has to live.
Apache Icebergmulti-regionreplication - 31 MIN READ•Sep 10, 2026
How Iceberg Catalogs Hand Engines Storage Access
Credential vending end to end: the wire protocol, scoped access on each cloud, remote signing, credential lifetime on long jobs, and failures that look like bugs.
credential vendingApache IcebergApache Polaris - 31 MIN READ•Sep 10, 2026
Kafka Connect to Iceberg: How the Commit Actually Works
Exactly-once semantics in the Iceberg sink connector: the coordinator, the control topic, offsets stored inside Iceberg snapshots, and where duplicates still get in.
Apache KafkaKafka ConnectApache Iceberg - 31 MIN READ•Sep 10, 2026
What a Query Costs
Four meters, their real proportions, and how to attribute compute to a query, a table, and a team so a platform can answer what a dashboard costs to run.
lakehousecost optimizationunit economics - 31 MIN READ•Sep 10, 2026
The Open Lakehouse Explained, Then Built on Your Laptop with Dremio and MinIO
The five layers of the open lakehouse explained, then a lab: Parquet, Iceberg, Polaris, Arrow, and Ossie running in two containers on your own machine.
open lakehouseApache IcebergApache Polaris - 31 MIN READ•Sep 10, 2026
Where Lock-In Went
The format war ended and exit cost did not: where lock-in relocated after open tables won, how to measure it, and which costs are worth keeping down.
vendor lock-inopen formatsApache Iceberg - 30 MIN READ•Sep 2, 2026
Data Quality Tooling Compared: Great Expectations, Soda, dbt Tests, and Anomaly Detection
A comparison of Great Expectations, Soda, dbt tests, and anomaly detection, and a layered design that uses each where it fits.
Great ExpectationsSodadbt - 25 MIN READ•Sep 2, 2026
The Data Team of the Agentic Era: Generalists Owning End-to-End Workflows
The case for generalists owning end-to-end data workflows with agents, the counterargument, and how to make the transition work.
Data TeamAIGeneralists - 30 MIN READ•Sep 2, 2026
dbt on Iceberg: Incremental Models on Open Tables
How dbt incremental materializations map to Iceberg operations, and the configuration, predicates, and maintenance that keep them healthy.
dbtApache IcebergIncremental Models - 30 MIN READ•Sep 2, 2026
Disaster Recovery for Iceberg Tables: Replication, Backup, and Restore
Disaster recovery for Iceberg across four tiers: snapshots, object versioning, catalog backup, and cross-region replication.
Apache IcebergDisaster RecoveryReplication - 30 MIN READ•Sep 2, 2026
Deleting User Data From an Immutable Lakehouse: GDPR Hard Deletes on Iceberg
How to turn a logical delete on immutable Iceberg into a physical erasure across snapshots, versions, replicas, and downstream copies.
GDPRApache IcebergData Privacy