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Alex Merced talks about the annoucement at Snowflake and Databricks respective conferences in particular when it comes to the lakehouse. Follow Alex: https://www.alexmerced.com/data
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Alex Merced discusses modern AI and the new MCP standard and what it means. Follow Alex’s Blogs on and on Social at AlexMerced.com
Alex Merced discusses the idea of whether Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake could merge. Follow my blog: https://medium.alexmerced.blog
Alex Merced discusses what he looks forward to in 2025 in the Data Lakehouse Space. Alex Merced Event Listings: https://lu.ma/LakehouselinkupsAlex on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/alextalksdatalakehouses.fyi Alex on Twitter: https://x.com/AMdatalakehouse Alex on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexmerced/
Alex Merced discusses his experience at AWS re:invent follow Alex at AlexMered.com/data
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Alex Merced discusses why catalogs are so important in data:
Alex Merced discusses the news and announcements for dbt coalest 2024. Announcements Alex didn’t mention:– dbt Apache Iceberg support, this is done by working with Iceberg supporting query engines like Dremio – Healthtiles with more information on your dashboard about the health of your models – Auto-exposures in Tableau triggering BI Dashboard updates when models […]
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Alex Merced discusses where interoperability tools like Apache Xtable and Uniform
Alex Merced discusses the difference between Apache Iceberg Catalog and Enterprise Data Catalogs to help clarify the discussions around catalogs in today’s data trends. Follow Alex -> https://bio.alexmerced.com/data
Alex Merced discusses some of the Databricks announcement at the Data + AI summit Follow Alex by visit https://bio.alexmerced.com/data
I talk about the big news of the day. follow on Twitter @amdatalakehouse
Alex Merced discusses the value of Open Source Apache Iceberg catalogs in creating a truly open lakehouse environment without Vendor lock-in. Check out my article on the subject: https://open.substack.com/pub/amdatalakehouse/p/open-source-table-format-open-source?r=h4f8p&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Follow me on twitter at @amdatalakehouse
In this episode, we delve into the Apache Iceberg Kafka Connector, a critical tool for streaming data into your data lakehouse. We’ll explore how this connector facilitates seamless data ingestion from Apache Kafka into Apache Iceberg, enhancing your real-time analytics capabilities and data lakehouse efficiency. We’ll cover: Join us to understand how the Apache Iceberg […]
Alex Merced discusses some of the major differences in how Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake work that lead to: Follow me on social https://bio.alexmerced.com/data
Alex Merced discusses the mistakes that makes Snowflake bills get so large. Hands-On Lakehouse Laptop Exercises:– MongoDB with Dremio: https://bit.ly/am-mongodb-dashboard– SQLServer with Dremio: https://bit.ly/am-sqlserver-dashboard– Postgres with Dremio: https://bit.ly/am-postgres-to-dashboard https://bio.alexmerced.com/data
Alex Merced discusses the benefits of Apache Iceberg’s open data ecosystem! Build a Data Lakehouse on Your Laptop Deploy Deploy into Production
In this episode, Alex Merced introduces his new podcast “Catalogs, Manifests, and Metadata. Oh my!” covering open-source data projects like Apache Iceberg and others. Make sure to subscribe, this podcast will be showing up in podcast directories over the next week or so of the publishing of this episode. Follow Alex Merced, find all links […]
Alex Merced discusses many of the open source projects aiming to reduce the frictions the heavily fragmented data world. Follow me on Socials:https://bio.alexmerced.com/data
Alex thinks on the development of Real-time data pipelines.
Alex Merced discusses how formats like Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi and Delta Lake work and are implemented into your favorite tools, distinguishing what is the responsibility of the format and there responsibility of the engine. Follow Alex on Social, find all links at:https://bio.alexmerced.com/data
Alex Merced discusses cloud costs Alex’s Links: https://bio.alexmerced/data
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Alex Merced discusses different techniques to speed up BI Dashboard performance.
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There is a reason the Git-for-Data Paradigm of Nessie catalogs is so essential, not only for the versioning features it provides but also the level of abstraction it provides them. In this episode, I discuss this more.
In just a few commands, you can have everything you need to practice ingestion and querying with popular data software. Just install Docker and then run the commands in the image. You can also follow the directions in this blog:https://lnkd.in/eDiC8fc6 Also try out this video series:https://lnkd.in/gp843ErM
Alex Merced describes what are window function, and how they can be applied to Apache Iceberg Metadata tables
Alex Merced discusses some of the fallout from Databricks’ UNIFormat announcement, and the innovation the industry needs to unlock the data lakehouse. Follow me on twitter @amdatalakehouse
Alex Merced discusses some of the big announcements from this weeks conferences. Make sure to checkout Gnarly Data Waves on your favorite podcast app.
Alex Merced explains what are Dremio reflection and how they bring you speed, reduce storage costs, and do so while keeping things easy for your end users. Follow Alex on twitter @amdatalakehouse
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Alex Merced discusses Dremio’s new generative AI Features and the future of Data Lakehouses. Follow Alex on twitter @amdatalakehouse
Alex Merced reflects on a recent article from Lauren Balik on the topic of ELT. Here is the Article:https://medium.com/@laurengreerbalik/how-fivetran-dbt-actually-fail-3a20083b2506 Launren’s Twitter: @laurenbalik My Twitter handle: @amdatalakehouse
Alex Merced helps explain how stats are collected and used when working with Parquet files and Apache Iceberg tables. Follow Alex on twitter @amdatalakehouse
Alex Merced discusses what is Object Storage and the history of file systems. Join the community at datanation.click
Alex Merced kicks off the new year with some updates, follow him on twitter: -> @amdatalakehouse -> @alexmercedcoder
Alex Merced discusses the features of the pyIceberg 0.2.0
Alex Merced encourages everyone to go to Dremio.com and try out the free Dremio test-drive and gives end of year thoughts.
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Alex Merced discusses Data Lake migration. Follow Alex on twitter @amdatalakehouse
Alex Merced discusses what is a semantic layer for curating your data. Follow Alex @amdatalakehouse Join the community at datanation.click
Alex Merced discusses how complex data stacks can become and how simple they can be with data lakehouse technologies.
Alex Merced discusses the many angles a data engineer should think about engineering data for better performance. Read more at dremio.com/subsurface
Alex Merced introduces some new podcasts to soon show up on spotify, google play, stitcher and iTunes.
Alex talks about what is a Spec, Library and Service when understanding modern tech frameworks.