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	<title>AI Updates, Lakehouse Streaming (Iceberg/Fluss), and more!</title>
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	<title>Understanding AI Agent Skills, MCP and Custom GPTs/Gems</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Embracing AI Disruption and AI Tooling</title>
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	<title>More Thoughts on the State of AI Software Development</title>
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	<title>2025 Reflections, Google Antigravity, NotebookLM, Dremio AI Agent, Pangolin Catalog, Dremioframe &#038; Iceframe Python Libraries for Apache Iceberg</title>
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	<title>Why do Semantic Layers matter so much?</title>
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	<title>Gaming Handheld Buying Guide and New Lakehouse Free Trial</title>
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	<title>Why Apache Polaris will Become the Industry Standard Data Lakehouse Catalog</title>
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	<title>#1 &#8211; intro to catalogs, manifests and metadata. Oh my!</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
	<title>Bonus: New Youtube Channel, State of the Data Lakehouse</title>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2024 19:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2024 20:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
	<title>Call for Speakers &#8211; Subsurface 2024 (Live in NYC May 2024)</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 21:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>1 &#8211; Joe Keohan &#8211; Frontend Developer and Bootcamp Instructor</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2023 14:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Alex Merced interview Joe Keohan, Frontend developer for Shopify and Bootcamp Instructor for General Assembly]]></description>
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