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- 21 MIN READ•Aug 4, 2026
Moving From Supply Chain Dashboards to Decision Loops With the Model Context Protocol
Moving from supply chain dashboards to decision loops with MCP: sense, decide, act, and verify, with typed action tools, idempotency keys, and graduated human approval.
AI AgentsMCPSupply Chain - 21 MIN READ•Aug 4, 2026
Metric Contracts as the Interface AI Agents Actually Need
Metric contracts as the interface AI agents need: calculation, inclusion rules, grain, temporal semantics, ownership, semantic versioning, and testing metrics in CI.
AI AgentsMetric ContractsSemantic Layer - 21 MIN READ•Aug 4, 2026
Cross-Cloud Credential Vending in Apache Polaris and the End of Permanent Storage Keys
How Apache Polaris vends short-lived, prefix-scoped storage credentials across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and how to retire permanent storage keys for good.
Apache PolarisCredential VendingSecurity - 21 MIN READ•Aug 4, 2026
Designing Policy-Aware Telemetry Tables for AI Systems in Apache Iceberg
Designing policy-aware AI telemetry tables in Apache Iceberg: what to log, tamper evidence, retention against conflicting deletion requirements, and tracing agent decisions.
Apache IcebergAI TelemetryEU AI Act - 21 MIN READ•Aug 4, 2026
Defending the Lakehouse Gateway Against Prompt Injection and Data Exfiltration
Defending the lakehouse gateway against prompt injection and data exfiltration: per-user identity, no-SQL tool surfaces, volume bounds, and detection in query behavior.
AI AgentsPrompt InjectionSecurity - 21 MIN READ•Aug 4, 2026
How the Iceberg REST Catalog Turned Into the Lakehouse Control Plane
How the Iceberg REST catalog became the lakehouse control plane: multi-table atomic commits, credential vending, capability negotiation, and what still breaks.
Apache IcebergREST CatalogApache Polaris - 21 MIN READ•Aug 4, 2026
A Migration Playbook for Moving Legacy Warehouses onto Apache Iceberg
A dependency-first playbook for migrating legacy warehouses onto Apache Iceberg: snapshot vs migrate vs add_files, four-level parity validation, and federation-based cutover.
Apache IcebergMigrationData Warehouse - 21 MIN READ•Aug 4, 2026
What Zero-Copy Data Sharing Actually Does Between Salesforce, Snowflake, and Databricks
What zero-copy data sharing actually does across Salesforce, Snowflake, and Databricks: query federation, file federation, catalog federation, and when copying still wins.
Zero-CopyData SharingApache Iceberg - 31 MIN READ•Aug 2, 2026
Apache Polaris 1.7.0 and the Quiet Work of Making a Catalog Trustworthy
Apache Polaris 1.7.0 deep dive: idempotent writes, semantic models, stricter credential vending, orphan cleanup, and what the upgrade asks of you.
Apache PolarisApache IcebergCatalog - 31 MIN READ•Aug 2, 2026
Designing Batch Pipelines That Write Well Into Apache Iceberg
How to design batch pipelines that write well into Apache Iceberg: commit strategy, partitioning, sort order, write-audit-publish, and maintenance done right.
Apache IcebergData EngineeringBatch Pipelines - 31 MIN READ•Aug 2, 2026
Apache Iceberg Support Across the Major Hyperscalers
How AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure actually support Apache Iceberg: storage, catalogs, maintenance, governance, and interoperability, layer by layer.
Apache IcebergAWSGoogle Cloud - 31 MIN READ•Jul 28, 2026
Guardrails for Analytics Agents That Do More Than Answer Questions
The risk isn't agents going rogue, it's agents acting correctly on bad input at machine speed. Here's how to classify actions by consequence, gate capability, and design approval steps people actually use.
AI AgentsGuardrailsData Governance