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The Remote Already Exists: What "Click" Got Right About Agentic AI
Dev.to · Alex Merced 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
The Remote Already Exists: What "Click" Got Right About Agentic AI
I rewatched "Click" recently, the 2006 Adam Sandler movie that everyone remembers as a dumb comedy...
Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: June 4 to June 11, 2026
Dev.to · Alex Merced 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: June 4 to June 11, 2026
The lakehouse community spent this week arguing about versions, and the arguments mattered. Parquet...
Apple Goes Agentic: AI Week of June 4-11, 2026
Dev.to · Alex Merced 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Apple Goes Agentic: AI Week of June 4-11, 2026
Apple rebuilt its developer stack around AI agents at WWDC 2026 this week. At the same time,...
Why Dremio's Value Is Unique to Apache Iceberg Lakehouses and Agentic Analytics
Dev.to · Alex Merced 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why Dremio's Value Is Unique to Apache Iceberg Lakehouses and Agentic Analytics
Most data teams have already made two decisions, even if they haven't written them down yet. The...
Single-Node Data Engineering: DuckDB, DataFusion, Polars, and LakeSail
Dev.to · Alex Merced 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Single-Node Data Engineering: DuckDB, DataFusion, Polars, and LakeSail
For the past decade, data engineering was synonymous with distributed clusters. If your dataset...
An In-Depth Overview of the Apache Iceberg 1.11.0 Release
Dev.to · Alex Merced 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
An In-Depth Overview of the Apache Iceberg 1.11.0 Release
Apache Iceberg 1.11.0 was officially released on May 19, 2026, marking a major milestone in the...
Semantic Layer Best Practices: 7 Mistakes to Avoid
Dev.to · Alex Merced 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Semantic Layer Best Practices: 7 Mistakes to Avoid
Semantic layers don't fail because the technology is wrong. They fail because of design decisions...
How a Self-Documenting Semantic Layer Reduces Data Team Toil
Dev.to · Alex Merced 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How a Self-Documenting Semantic Layer Reduces Data Team Toil
Every data team knows documentation is important. And almost every data team has a backlog of...
Migrating to Apache Iceberg: Strategies for Every Source System
Dev.to · Alex Merced 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Migrating to Apache Iceberg: Strategies for Every Source System
This is Part 15, the final article of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 14 covered hands-on...
Hands-On with Apache Iceberg Using Dremio Cloud
Dev.to · Alex Merced 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Hands-On with Apache Iceberg Using Dremio Cloud
This is Part 14 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 13 covered streaming approaches. This...
Approaches to Streaming Data into Apache Iceberg Tables
Dev.to · Alex Merced 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Approaches to Streaming Data into Apache Iceberg Tables
This is Part 13 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 12 covered Python and MPP engines. This...
Using Apache Iceberg with Python and MPP Query Engines
Dev.to · Alex Merced 🔄 Data Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Using Apache Iceberg with Python and MPP Query Engines
This is Part 12 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 11 covered metadata tables. This...
How Data Lake Table Storage Degrades Over Time
Dev.to · Alex Merced 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How Data Lake Table Storage Degrades Over Time
This is Part 9 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 8 covered embedded catalogs. This...
Headless BI: How a Universal Semantic Layer Replaces Tool-Specific Models
Dev.to · Alex Merced 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Headless BI: How a Universal Semantic Layer Replaces Tool-Specific Models
Your organization uses Tableau for executive dashboards, Power BI for operational reports, and...
Data Virtualization and the Semantic Layer: Query Without Copying
Dev.to · Alex Merced 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Data Virtualization and the Semantic Layer: Query Without Copying
Every data pipeline you build to move data from one system to another costs you three things: time...
What Are Lakehouse Catalogs? The Role of Catalogs in Apache Iceberg
Dev.to · Alex Merced 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
What Are Lakehouse Catalogs? The Role of Catalogs in Apache Iceberg
This is Part 7 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 6 covered the write process and...
Hidden Partitioning: How Iceberg Eliminates Accidental Full Table Scans
Dev.to · Alex Merced 🔄 Data Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Hidden Partitioning: How Iceberg Eliminates Accidental Full Table Scans
This is Part 5 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 4 covered partition evolution. This...
Partition Evolution: Change Your Partitioning Without Rewriting Data
Dev.to · Alex Merced 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Partition Evolution: Change Your Partitioning Without Rewriting Data
This is Part 4 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 3 covered metadata-driven performance....
Performance and Apache Iceberg's Metadata
Dev.to · Alex Merced 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Performance and Apache Iceberg's Metadata
This is Part 3 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 2 covered the metadata structures of all...
AI Weekly: Google Reshapes the Coding Stack, Claude Pulls Ahead, and the Agent Protocol Stack Hardens (Week of May 13-20, 2026)
Dev.to · Alex Merced 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI Weekly: Google Reshapes the Coding Stack, Claude Pulls Ahead, and the Agent Protocol Stack Hardens (Week of May 13-20, 2026)
This week the AI industry served up one of its busiest Google I/O keynotes in years, a meaningful...