Podcast: DataNation – Podcast for Data Engineers, Analysts and Scientists
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Why Apache Polaris will Become the Industry Standard Data Lakehouse Catalog
Past is Prologue. Alex Merced discusses lessons from the table format wars that can help predict the outcome of the catalog wars. Follow Alex at AlexMerced.com Join the #amtech channel on the Data Lakehouse Hub to discuss the podcast: https://join.slack.com/t/thedatalakehousehub/shared_invite/zt-274yc8sza-mI2zhCW8LGkOh1uxuf8T5Q
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Data News: Snowflake/Databricks Announcements, Iceberg V3
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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Data News: DuckLake, Confluent’s TableFlow, New Book!
Go to the DataLakehouseHub.com and join my Slack Community Download Free Iceberg Book: https://drmevn.fyi/podcast52725iceberg Download Free Polaris Book: https://drmevn.fyi/podcast52725Polaris
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Bonus – What is MCP? (Model Context Protocol – Modern AI 101)
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
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Will Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake Merge?
Alex Merced discusses the idea of whether Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake could merge. Follow my blog: https://medium.alexmerced.blog
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2025, Data Lakehouse Looking Forward
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/
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63 – Reinvent, AWS S3 Table Buckets and Apache Iceberg
Alex Merced discusses his experience at AWS re:invent follow Alex at AlexMered.com/data
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BONUS: Data Lakehouse Crash Course (Polaris, Nessie, Unity, Gravitino, Lakekeeper and more!)
Register for the catalog Course: https://drmevn.fyi/catalogcourse1024 Watch the Iceberg Crash Course: https://drmevn.fyi/icebergcourse1024 London Meetup: https://lu.ma/Lakehouselinkups Paris Meetup: https://drmevn.fyi/1120-france-meetup My Calendar of Events: https://lu.ma/Lakehouselinkups
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62 – Why Catalogs are so hot right now in the data space?
Alex Merced discusses why catalogs are so important in data:
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61 – What’s New In dbt? (dbt coalesce 2024)
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…