The data platform, reviewed.
6 articles
· 2 min read
Databricks' sub-second lakehouse warehouse is still in beta, but since October 10 it bills on its own SKU, with a 30 percent discount ending January 31.
#databricks#lakehouse#pricing#serving
· 2 min read
Iceberg's REST catalog spec ended the format fight by making it moot. The contest moved to the control plane, where Apache Polaris and Unity Catalog now sit.
#catalogs#iceberg#lakehouse
· 1 min read
Bronze, silver and gold describe a diagram, not a design. On the vocabulary that conquered data engineering without ever being specified.
#medallion#lakehouse#architecture
· 3 min read
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
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
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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