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• 31 MIN READ•Jul 28, 2026

  Why Iceberg V4 Wants to Retire Equality Deletes, and What Streaming Teams Should Do About It

  Equality deletes made streaming upserts into Iceberg practical at the cost of read performance. V4 proposes retiring them in favor of deletion vectors with an async conversion path.

  Apache IcebergStreamingData Engineering
• 31 MIN READ•Jul 28, 2026

  The Five Layers Between Your Lakehouse and a Trustworthy Agent

  Agent reliability is a property of the stack the model sits on. Five layers with distinct owners and failure modes turn the agent is unreliable into a specific diagnosis.

  AI AgentsApache IcebergData Architecture
• 31 MIN READ•Jul 28, 2026

  Apache Fluss and Kafka Solve Different Problems in an Iceberg Pipeline

  Fluss puts a columnar, indexed hot tier between Kafka and Iceberg. Here's what it changes structurally, what Kafka still does better, and how to benchmark the comparison yourself.

  Apache IcebergApache FlussKafka