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Governing Iceberg Tables Across Regions Without Three Sets of Permissions

Governing Iceberg Tables Across Regions Without Three Sets of Permissions

Catalog federation gives you one authorization model and one audit point across regions. Here's what it solves, what it doesn't, and how to build a topology you can actually govern.

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Federating Oracle With an Open Lakehouse Instead of Migrating It

Federating Oracle With an Open Lakehouse Instead of Migrating It

Federate first so analytics work now, migrate what benefits from migrating, and leave the rest where it is indefinitely. Here's how pushdown and view layers make it work.

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The Parquet Versioning Problem, and Why Iceberg Cares About It

The Parquet Versioning Problem, and Why Iceberg Cares About It

Parquet files have a version field that doesn't reliably signal feature requirements. A new versioning discipline is coming, borrowing from Iceberg's format version model.

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Building Iceberg Pipelines in Python Without Standing Up Spark

Building Iceberg Pipelines in Python Without Standing Up Spark

A large share of production transformations fit comfortably on one machine. PyIceberg, DuckDB, and branch isolation give you a production path that debugs in an IDE.

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