· 4 min read
The table format standoff is over and nobody surrendered
Iceberg, Delta and the rest converged on features and moved the war to catalogs. Where the actual lock-in lives in 2026, and what to standardize on.
#iceberg#delta#lakehouse
The data platform, reviewed.
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· 4 min read
Iceberg, Delta and the rest converged on features and moved the war to catalogs. Where the actual lock-in lives in 2026, and what to standardize on.
#iceberg#delta#lakehouse
· 2 min read
pg_duckdb hit 1.0 and made the boring answer better. When your warehouse should be your Postgres, and the three signals that the honeymoon is ending.
#postgres#duckdb#warehouse
· 4 min read
DuckDB made one machine respectable again. A review of what the distributed decade got wrong about the size of actual data.
#duckdb#architecture#warehouse
· 2 min read
The formats converged, the engines cross-read each other, and the real decision is about the team you have, not the architecture you admire.
#lakehouse#warehouse#architecture
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