# apache data (podcasts) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover apache data. Page: Feed: --- ## [Migrating to Apache Iceberg: Strategies for Every Source System](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/migrating-to-apache-iceberg-strategies) _2026-08-19 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ This is Part 15, the final article of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 14 covered hands-on Dremio Cloud. ## [Hands-On with Apache Iceberg Using Dremio Cloud](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/hands-on-with-apache-iceberg-using) _2026-08-18 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ This is Part 14 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 13 covered streaming approaches. ## [The Plan and the Worker: Two Open Specifications for Agent Harnesses](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/the-plan-and-the-worker-two-open) _2026-08-14 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ Every agent harness solves the same two problems, and almost every one of them solves both privately. ## [Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: August 5 - August 12, 2026](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/apache-data-lakehouse-weekly-august) _2026-08-14 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ This Week at a Glance ## [AI Weekly: GPT-5.6-Cyber, Muse Glimmer, and the Agent Browser](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/ai-weekly-gpt-56-cyber-muse-glimmer) _2026-08-13 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ Week of August 5 to August 12, 2026 ## [Approaches to Streaming Data into Apache Iceberg Tables](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/approaches-to-streaming-data-into) _2026-08-11 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ This is Part 13 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 12 covered Python and MPP engines. ## [Apache Arrow Flight and ADBC, and Why Database Connectivity Finally Went Columnar](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/apache-arrow-flight-and-adbc-and) _2026-08-10 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ A data scientist runs a query against a warehouse. ## [Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: July 29 to August 5, 2026](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/apache-data-lakehouse-weekly-july-7b2) _2026-08-07 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ This was a week of decisions. ## [AI Weekly: The Week Frontier Pricing Broke](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/ai-weekly-the-week-frontier-pricing) _2026-08-06 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ Two of the largest models ever released shipped inside five days of each other, and one of them costs a quarter of what the leader charges. ## [Apache Polaris 1.7.0 and the Quiet Work of Making a Catalog Trustworthy](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/apache-polaris-170-and-the-quiet) _2026-08-04 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ A Spark job commits a table update. ## [Never miss a game (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/2mafnuOrTgdK) _2026-08-04 · **Sponsored**_ Follow any team; get an hour and one-minute web and email reminders. ## [Using Apache Iceberg with Python and MPP Query Engines](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/using-apache-iceberg-with-python) _2026-08-04 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ This is Part 12 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 11 covered metadata tables. ## [File Encryption for the Lakehouse: The Terminology, the Machinery, and the Hard Problem of Interoperable Encrypted Tables](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/file-encryption-for-the-lakehouse) _2026-07-31 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ For years, the open lakehouse had an honest gap that practitioners whispered about and slide decks skipped: encryption. ## [AI Weekly: Opus 5 Lands, MCP Goes Stateless, and AMD Ships Helios](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/ai-weekly-opus-5-lands-mcp-goes-stateless) _2026-07-31 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ Week of July 22 to July 29, 2026 ## [Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: July 21 to July 29, 2026](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/apache-data-lakehouse-weekly-july-9c1) _2026-07-31 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ This was a week where the open lakehouse stack spent most of its energy on contracts. ## [A Deep Dive Into File Compression: How Data Gets Smaller, Why Codecs Differ, and What to Actually Use in the Lakehouse](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/a-deep-dive-into-file-compression) _2026-07-30 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ Somewhere in your data platform right now, a single configuration property is quietly deciding a meaningful percentage of your storage bill, your query latency, and your compute spend. ## [A Reader's Guide to My Books: Which One to Pick Up, Depending on What You're Building](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/a-readers-guide-to-my-books-which) _2026-07-29 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ The question I get most often after talks, after podcast episodes, and in newsletter replies is a simple one: where do I start with your books? ## [Apache Iceberg Metadata Tables: Querying the Internals](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/apache-iceberg-metadata-tables-querying) _2026-07-28 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ This is Part 11 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 10 covered maintenance operations. ## [The File Format Renaissance: Parquet, Lance, Vortex, Nimble, BtrBlocks, and the New Physics of Columnar Storage](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/the-file-format-renaissance-parquet) _2026-07-27 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ For a decade, the file format layer was the most settled real estate in data. ## [Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: July 16 to July 23, 2026](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/apache-data-lakehouse-weekly-july-2bb) _2026-07-24 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ The lakehouse community spent this week deciding what belongs in the format and what belongs outside it. ## [Lakehouse Table Formats in 2026: Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, Paimon, and DuckLake, How They Work, Where They Stand, and Where They're Going](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/lakehouse-table-formats-in-2026-iceberg) _2026-07-24 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ The table format war is over, and the table formats are not. ## [Stay updated on your professional world (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/nhjH80cF5E1K) _2026-07-24 · **Sponsored**_ Keep in touch with people you know, build your career. ## [AI Weekly: MCP Goes Stateless, AMD Ships 2nm Silicon](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/ai-weekly-mcp-goes-stateless-amd) _2026-07-23 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ The plumbing of the AI industry got rebuilt this week. ## [The Filters We Build: How Every New Medium Rewires Our Defenses, From Radio Ads to AI Slop](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/the-filters-we-build-how-every-new) _2026-07-23 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ My grandparents’ generation learned to tune out the radio pitchman.