Tag:architecture
Articles tagged "architecture".
- 30 MIN READ•Aug 24, 2026
Why Iceberg v4 Is Really About Making the Cost of Change Proportional to the Change
Iceberg v4 is really about making the cost of a change proportional to the change. The principle, the current tax, and what the redesign pays down.
Apache IcebergIceberg v4metadata - 31 MIN READ•Aug 19, 2026
The Five Layers of an Agentic Lakehouse
The five layers of an agentic lakehouse: Storage, Catalog, Semantic, Gateway, and Agent Surface, and how one question travels through all of them.
agentic lakehousearchitectureMCP - 29 MIN READ•Jul 6, 2026
Block vs. Object Storage: A Deep Dive Into the Foundation of Modern Data, and How the Lakehouse Made the Slow Option Fast
Here is one of the strangest and most consequential plot twists in the history of data infrastructure: over the past decade, the analytics industry...
data lakehousestoragearchitecture - 15 MIN READ•Jul 6, 2026
Decoupled Catalogs vs. Managed Tables: Architectural Freedom in the Age of Table Format Convergence
Open table formats have changed buyer expectations. A few years ago, the question was whether an organization should put more analytical data into...
catalogstable formatsarchitecture - 5 MIN READ•Feb 18, 2026
How to Design Reliable Data Pipelines
Most pipeline failures aren't caused by bad code. They're caused by no architecture. A script that reads from an API, transforms JSON, and writes to a databa...
data engineeringbest practicespipelines - 5 MIN READ•Feb 18, 2026
How to Build a Semantic Layer: A Step-by-Step Guide
Most teams start building a semantic layer the wrong way: they open their BI tool, create a few calculated fields, and call it done. Six months later, three ...
semantic layerdata engineeringarchitecture