A full survey of the AI model landscape in mid-2026: frontier families, open-weight labs, local inference, specialists, and how to build a routing layer instead of a dependency.
A survey of the Apache Iceberg market in July 2026: the state of the specification, platform support, the acquisition wave, the catalog contest, and how to evaluate real Iceberg support.
Databricks, Snowflake, and SAP are closing the gap between operational databases and analytical platforms through acquisition, betting on different layers of the same five-part architecture.
Agents break the four assumptions analytics platforms were built on. A practical guide to identity, budgets, semantic layers, caching, and instrumentation for agent workloads.
