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692 posts from Alex's blogs and newsletters, newest first. Thoughts on tech, data, policy, and philosophy.

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Embracing the Future of Data Management - Why Choose Lakehouse, Iceberg, and Dremio?

The Future of Data Platforms...

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Open Lakehouse Engineering/Apache Iceberg Lakehouse Engineering - A Directory of Resources

Resources for learning how to Engineer an Open Data Lakehouse...

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Nessie - An Alternative to Hive & JDBC for Self-Managed Apache Iceberg Catalogs

Nessie is the only open-source catalog implementation specifically for Apache Iceberg....

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Apache Iceberg, Git-Like Catalog Versioning and Data Lakehouse Management - Pillars of a Robust Data Lakehouse Platform

This is where the combined power of Dremio’s Lakehouse Management features and Project Nessie's catalog-level versioning comes into play....

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No Code - Convert XLS/CSV files into Parquet with Dremio

Convert XLS/CSV Files without having to write python...

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Why Dremio is a must for Apache Iceberg Data Lakehouses

Why is Dremio so useful for Apache Iceberg data lakehouses...

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What is HTMX? Why it Matters? and How to use it.

The framework that is getting all the buzz about reducing the javascript you need to write...

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OOP Design Patterns in Javascript

An overview of OOP Design Patterns in Spark...

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An In-Depth Overview of Open Lakehouse Tech: Apache Iceberg & Nessie

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How to effectively learn software development

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Overview of the Open Lakehouse: Why Dremio?

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How to build a Java Spring JSON API from scratch

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How to write a JSON API in Scala with Play from scratch

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An Approach to Architecting a Lower Cost, Fast and Self-Service Data Lakehouse

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Building Full CRUD Rest API's with Flask & FastAPI using PsychoPG2

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Handling Cross-Origin Cookies with ExpressJS

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Creating a Local Data Lakehouse using Spark/Minio/Dremio/Nessie

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Project Nessie: A Look in the Depths

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Overview of File Encryption Algorithms for Everyone

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Parquet File Compression for Everyone (zstd, brotli, lz4, gzip, snappy)

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Dremio and Modern Data Architecture: Data Lakes, Data Lakehouses and Data Mesh

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What is Nessie and Why as a Data Engineer or Architect you should care?

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Resources for Learning more about Catalog level versioning with Project Nessie & Dremio Arctic (Rollbacks, Branching, Tagging and Multi-Table Txns)

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Overview of the Data Lakehouse, Dremio and Apache Iceberg

Understanding the Cutting Edge of Data Engineering...