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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.
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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.
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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.
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Deep dives into Apache Iceberg, agentic AI, and modern data lakehouse architecture by Alex Merced.
What is Apache Iceberg? The Table Format Revolution
Learn how Apache Iceberg turned raw Parquet files in S3 into a fully ACID-compliant, time-traveling analytical database without moving your data out of object storage.
Read articleAgentic Analytics on the Apache Lakehouse
How autonomous AI agents replace manual dashboard querying by reading governed semantic layers directly on your data lakehouse.
Read articleEcosystemThe 2025 State of the Apache Iceberg Ecosystem
Survey data from data professionals on adoption rates, popular tooling, and where the ecosystem is heading through 2026.
Read articleData LakehouseWhat Are Table Formats and Why Were They Needed?
Table formats solved the ACID, schema evolution, and query performance problems that turned data lakes into unmanageable swamps.
Read articleApache Iceberg2026 Intro to Apache Iceberg
A beginner-to-intermediate introduction covering the metadata layer, catalog integrations, and why Iceberg became the dominant table format.
Read articleAgentic AIWhy AI Fails Without a Semantic Layer
The business context and governed metrics AI agents need to generate accurate, trustworthy analytical answers at scale.
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