The Vertex Journal· 1 min read
The medallion architecture is a slide
Bronze, silver and gold describe a diagram, not a design. On the vocabulary that conquered data engineering without ever being specified.
#medallion#lakehouse#architecture
Tagged: lakehouse
4 articles
· 3 min read
Iceberg v3 outran the engines that read it
Snowflake, Databricks and Dremio shipped Iceberg v3 GA this spring. Trino is partial, Athena and BigQuery still read v2. The interop math, reviewed.
#iceberg#table-formats#lakehouse
· 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
· 2 min read
Lakehouse or warehouse is a staffing question
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