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All the articles I've posted.

• 16 MIN READ•May 24, 2026

  Choosing the Right Iceberg Control Plane: Polaris vs. Unity Catalog vs. Cloud REST

  Choosing an Apache Iceberg catalog? Compare open-source Apache Polaris, open Unity Catalog, and managed cloud REST control planes to unify your lakehouse.

  Apache Iceberg CatalogIceberg Rest CatalogApache Polaris
• 13 MIN READ•May 24, 2026

  Clean Rooms for Privacy-Preserving Analytics

  Data clean rooms enable secure multi-party analytics without sharing raw data. Learn how Databricks Clean Rooms, AWS Clean Rooms, and BigQuery differential privacy work.

  Data Clean Rooms Privacy-Preserving AnalyticsDatabricks Clean RoomsAws Clean Rooms
• 14 MIN READ•May 24, 2026

  Building Composable Query Engines with Rust Runtimes

  Apache DataFusion, Velox, and Substrait form the foundation of modern composable query engine stacks. Learn how these components fit together and when to use each.

  Composable Query Engine DatafusionApache Datafusion RustVelox C++ Engine
• 11 MIN READ•May 24, 2026

  Data Mesh After the Hype: What Actually Works

  Three years after Zhamak Dehghani's original papers, data mesh has proven valuable in specific organizational contexts and impractical in others. Here's what the practical implementations look like.

  Data Mesh Practical ImplementationData Mesh Reality CheckData Product Thinking
• 12 MIN READ•May 24, 2026

  How dbt Fusion Reshapes Analytics Engineering

  dbt Fusion entered public beta in May 2025 with a Rust-powered runtime that changes how analytics engineers develop, validate, and deploy SQL models. Here's what changed.

  Dbt Fusion Analytics EngineeringDbt Fusion RustDbt State-Aware Orchestration
• 13 MIN READ•May 24, 2026

  Using DuckDB and Polars to Query Iceberg Tables

  DuckDB 1.4 LTS and Polars streaming engine now both support reading and writing Apache Iceberg tables. Learn how to use them for lakehouse analytics in 2025.

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• 12 MIN READ•May 24, 2026

  FinOps for Data Warehouses with Open Billing Data

  The FOCUS 1.3 specification and native warehouse cost views make real-time cost attribution practical. Learn how to build a FinOps pipeline for Snowflake, BigQuery, and multi-cloud environments.

  Warehouse Finops Focus SpecificationSnowflake Cost ManagementBigquery Jobs View
• 13 MIN READ•May 24, 2026

  Designing Governed RAG on Data Products

  Enterprise RAG architecture that trusts its own data requires governance at the retrieval layer. Learn how to build governed RAG using data products, access policies, and semantic layer routing.

  Governed Rag Enterprise Data ProductsEnterprise Rag ArchitectureGoverned Retrieval Augmented Generation
• 12 MIN READ•May 24, 2026

  What Iceberg V3 Advances Mean for CDC Pipelines

  Apache Iceberg V3 brings deletion vectors and row lineage that reshape CDC pipeline design. Learn what these features mean for your streaming data architecture.

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• 13 MIN READ•May 24, 2026

  Kafka 4.0 Changes Streaming Platform Operations

  Kafka 4.0 removes ZooKeeper and ships KRaft and KIP-848 by default. Learn what those changes mean for platform operations, upgrades, and client configurations.

  Kafka 4.0 UpgradeKafka KraftZookeeper Removal Kafka
• 13 MIN READ•May 24, 2026

  Lance and Iceberg for Multimodal AI Data

  LanceDB and Apache Iceberg serve complementary roles in a multimodal AI lakehouse. Learn when to use Lance for embeddings and random access, and Iceberg for structured metadata and SQL analytics.

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• 13 MIN READ•May 24, 2026

  Bringing MLflow and Data Pipelines Closer Together

  MLflow 3 extends observability from classic ML experiments to GenAI tracing and data pipeline lineage. Learn how to connect data quality monitoring with model performance tracking.

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