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- 21 MIN READ•Aug 4, 2026
Defending the Lakehouse Gateway Against Prompt Injection and Data Exfiltration
Defending the lakehouse gateway against prompt injection and data exfiltration: per-user identity, no-SQL tool surfaces, volume bounds, and detection in query behavior.
AI AgentsPrompt InjectionSecurity - 21 MIN READ•Aug 4, 2026
How the Iceberg REST Catalog Turned Into the Lakehouse Control Plane
How the Iceberg REST catalog became the lakehouse control plane: multi-table atomic commits, credential vending, capability negotiation, and what still breaks.
Apache IcebergREST CatalogApache Polaris - 20 MIN READ•Aug 4, 2026
A Migration Playbook for Moving Legacy Warehouses onto Apache Iceberg
A dependency-first playbook for migrating legacy warehouses onto Apache Iceberg: snapshot vs migrate vs add_files, four-level parity validation, and federation-based cutover.
Apache IcebergMigrationData Warehouse - 21 MIN READ•Aug 4, 2026
What Zero-Copy Data Sharing Actually Does Between Salesforce, Snowflake, and Databricks
What zero-copy data sharing actually does across Salesforce, Snowflake, and Databricks: query federation, file federation, catalog federation, and when copying still wins.
Zero-CopyData SharingApache Iceberg - 31 MIN READ•Aug 2, 2026
Apache Polaris 1.7.0 and the Quiet Work of Making a Catalog Trustworthy
Apache Polaris 1.7.0 deep dive: idempotent writes, semantic models, stricter credential vending, orphan cleanup, and what the upgrade asks of you.
Apache PolarisApache IcebergCatalog - 31 MIN READ•Aug 2, 2026
Designing Batch Pipelines That Write Well Into Apache Iceberg
How to design batch pipelines that write well into Apache Iceberg: commit strategy, partitioning, sort order, write-audit-publish, and maintenance done right.
Apache IcebergData EngineeringBatch Pipelines - 31 MIN READ•Aug 2, 2026
Apache Iceberg Support Across the Major Hyperscalers
How AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure actually support Apache Iceberg: storage, catalogs, maintenance, governance, and interoperability, layer by layer.
Apache IcebergAWSGoogle Cloud - 31 MIN READ•Jul 28, 2026
Guardrails for Analytics Agents That Do More Than Answer Questions
The risk isn't agents going rogue, it's agents acting correctly on bad input at machine speed. Here's how to classify actions by consequence, gate capability, and design approval steps people actually use.
AI AgentsGuardrailsData Governance - 31 MIN READ•Jul 28, 2026
Building Agent Telemetry Tables in Iceberg That Survive an Audit
A practical guide to building agent decision traces in Apache Iceberg that support audit reconstruction, governance review, and cost attribution across sessions.
Apache IcebergAI AgentsData Governance - 31 MIN READ•Jul 28, 2026
What Agentic Analytics Actually Costs, and How to Keep It Bounded
Agent analytics generates two cost streams that scale on different variables. Here's the arithmetic, the levers that actually move the number, and how to build attribution before you need it.
AI AgentsAnalyticsCost Optimization - 31 MIN READ•Jul 28, 2026
Running an Apache Iceberg Lakehouse With No Internet Connection
A practical guide to deploying an Iceberg lakehouse in air-gapped environments: component choices, artifact pipelines, identity without a cloud, and the operational realities that surprise teams.
Apache IcebergAir-GappedData Engineering - 31 MIN READ•Jul 28, 2026
When the Query Optimizer Starts Managing Its Own Materializations
Autonomous materialized view management replaces quarterly review meetings with workload-driven scoring, and it's essential when AI agents generate unpredictable query patterns.
Apache IcebergQuery OptimizationAI Agents