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Building Agent Telemetry Tables in Iceberg That Survive an Audit

Building Agent Telemetry Tables in Iceberg That Survive an Audit

A practical guide to building agent decision traces in Apache Iceberg that support audit reconstruction, governance review, and cost attribution across sessions.

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Why AI Agents Fail on Raw Data, and What to Give Them Instead

Why AI Agents Fail on Raw Data, and What to Give Them Instead

Agents fail on raw lake data because business rules live in people's heads. Data products with semantic contracts fix this at the source.

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Why Iceberg V4 Wants to Retire Equality Deletes, and What Streaming Teams Should Do About It

Why Iceberg V4 Wants to Retire Equality Deletes, and What Streaming Teams Should Do About It

Equality deletes made streaming upserts into Iceberg practical at the cost of read performance. V4 proposes retiring them in favor of deletion vectors with an async conversion path.

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Surviving Commit Conflicts When Dozens of Writers Hit the Same Iceberg Table

Surviving Commit Conflicts When Dozens of Writers Hit the Same Iceberg Table

Commit conflicts multiply with writer count, and AI agents introduce unpredictable write patterns. Here's how to diagnose, tune, and architect around Iceberg's optimistic concurrency.

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