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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...