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Building Apache Iceberg Lakehouses That Run Without an Internet Connection

Building Apache Iceberg Lakehouses That Run Without an Internet Connection

How to build an Apache Iceberg lakehouse that runs fully offline: storage, catalog, compute, cross-zone transfer, compliance, and the failure modes that bite.

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The Five Layers of an Agentic Lakehouse and Where the MCP Server Sits

The Five Layers of an Agentic Lakehouse and Where the MCP Server Sits

The five layers of an agentic lakehouse and where the MCP server sits: storage, catalog, semantic layer, MCP gateway, and agent surface, plus identity, session isolation, and budgets.

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Budgeting for Agentic Analytics When Every Question Costs Something Different

Budgeting for Agentic Analytics When Every Question Costs Something Different

Budgeting for agentic analytics when every question costs something different: token economics, query economics, instrumentation, and the cost controls that actually return.

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Wiring Analytical Queries to Transactional APIs in Closed-Loop Decision Agents

Wiring Analytical Queries to Transactional APIs in Closed-Loop Decision Agents

Wiring analytical queries to transactional APIs in closed-loop decision agents: conditional writes, sagas with compensations, decision records, and blast radius controls.

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