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Why AI Agents Fail on Raw Data, and What to Give Them Instead

Why AI Agents Fail on Raw Data, and What to Give Them Instead

Agents fail on raw lake data because business rules live in people's heads. Data products with semantic contracts fix this at the source.

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Why Iceberg V4 Wants to Retire Equality Deletes, and What Streaming Teams Should Do About It

Why Iceberg V4 Wants to Retire Equality Deletes, and What Streaming Teams Should Do About It

Equality deletes made streaming upserts into Iceberg practical at the cost of read performance. V4 proposes retiring them in favor of deletion vectors with an async conversion path.

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The Five Layers Between Your Lakehouse and a Trustworthy Agent

The Five Layers Between Your Lakehouse and a Trustworthy Agent

Agent reliability is a property of the stack the model sits on. Five layers with distinct owners and failure modes turn the agent is unreliable into a specific diagnosis.

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Apache Fluss and Kafka Solve Different Problems in an Iceberg Pipeline

Apache Fluss and Kafka Solve Different Problems in an Iceberg Pipeline

Fluss puts a columnar, indexed hot tier between Kafka and Iceberg. Here's what it changes structurally, what Kafka still does better, and how to benchmark the comparison yourself.

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