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- 30 MIN READ•Aug 19, 2026
Query Routing at Machine Scale: Multi-Engine Workload Distribution for the Agentic Lakehouse
Query routing at machine scale for the agentic lakehouse: engine selection, acceleration substitution, admission control, and placement across multi-engine estates.
query routingworkload managementmulti-engine - 32 MIN READ•Aug 19, 2026
Securing the Agentic Lakehouse Gateway: A Threat Model for Prompt Injection, Exfiltration, and the Firewall That Reads Sentences
A threat model for the agentic lakehouse gateway covering prompt injection, exfiltration, and the firewall that reads sentences.
securityprompt injectionMCP - 30 MIN READ•Aug 19, 2026
Semantic Layer Federation: One Meaning for Data That Lives Everywhere
Build a federated semantic layer across multi-cloud data so one set of governed metric definitions serves BI tools, dashboards, and AI agents identically.
semantic layerfederationmulti-cloud - 31 MIN READ•Aug 19, 2026
Building Lightweight Serverless Ingestion to Apache Iceberg with PyIceberg and DuckDB
Build lightweight serverless ingestion to Apache Iceberg with PyIceberg and DuckDB, running small feeds in functions that bill for seconds.
PyIcebergDuckDBserverless - 31 MIN READ•Aug 19, 2026
Building Stateless AI Tool Gateways with FastMCP, the 2026 MCP Spec, and Kubernetes
How to build stateless AI tool gateways with FastMCP, the 2026 MCP specification, and Kubernetes, and why statelessness finally makes MCP scale.
MCPFastMCPtool gateways - 30 MIN READ•Aug 19, 2026
Write-Audit-Publish with Apache Iceberg Branches: CI/CD for Your Data
Write-Audit-Publish with Apache Iceberg branches brings CI/CD to your data: stage, audit, then fast-forward to main so consumers never see unvalidated bytes.
Apache Icebergwrite-audit-publishbranches - 31 MIN READ•Aug 19, 2026
Zero-Copy Warehouse Modernization: Moving to Apache Iceberg Without Downtime
A practical guide to modernizing a data warehouse to Apache Iceberg without downtime, using federation first, then redirecting new data, then materializing what earns a migration.
Apache Icebergwarehouse migrationzero-copy - 23 MIN READ•Aug 10, 2026
The Plan and the Worker: Two Open Specifications for Agent Harnesses
Two open specifications, the Agentic Graph Specification and the Open Agent Profile, turn agent plans and agent identity into portable, reviewable files.
Agentic AIOpen SpecificationsAgent Harnesses - 31 MIN READ•Aug 6, 2026
Apache Arrow Flight and ADBC, and Why Database Connectivity Finally Went Columnar
Arrow Flight and ADBC move database results as columnar data, ending the row-oriented bottleneck between engines and applications. Here's how.
Apache ArrowADBCArrow Flight - 21 MIN READ•Aug 4, 2026
Budgeting for Agentic Analytics When Every Question Costs Something Different
Budgeting for agentic analytics when every question costs something different: token economics, query economics, instrumentation, and the cost controls that actually return.
AI AgentsTCOCost Management - 21 MIN READ•Aug 4, 2026
The Five Layers of an Agentic Lakehouse and Where the MCP Server Sits
The five layers of an agentic lakehouse and where the MCP server sits: storage, catalog, semantic layer, MCP gateway, and agent surface, plus identity, session isolation, and budgets.
AI AgentsMCPAgentic Lakehouse - 20 MIN READ•Aug 4, 2026
Autonomous Table Optimization When Your Query Workload Stops Being Predictable
Autonomous table optimization when query workloads stop being predictable: observing file layout and query patterns, scoring compaction work, adaptive sort order, and cost discipline.
Apache IcebergTable OptimizationCompaction