A background agent can move cold Iceberg partitions to cheaper tiers without breaking live queries. Heatmaps, path-safe moves, and restore paths.
Agentic lakehouse gateways face prompt injection and exfiltration through query results. A threat model and defenses for the layer in front of data.
Apache Ossie and Polaris put metric definitions in the open catalog. What the spec covers, what Polaris stores, and what is still unfinished.
ALP and FSST target Parquet's worst cases: floats and high-cardinality strings. How they work and what they change for Iceberg tables.
