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How the Iceberg REST Catalog Turned Into the Lakehouse Control Plane

How the Iceberg REST Catalog Turned Into the Lakehouse Control Plane

How the Iceberg REST catalog became the lakehouse control plane: multi-table atomic commits, credential vending, capability negotiation, and what still breaks.

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A Migration Playbook for Moving Legacy Warehouses onto Apache Iceberg

A Migration Playbook for Moving Legacy Warehouses onto Apache Iceberg

A dependency-first playbook for migrating legacy warehouses onto Apache Iceberg: snapshot vs migrate vs add_files, four-level parity validation.

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What Zero-Copy Data Sharing Actually Does Between Salesforce, Snowflake, and Databricks

What Zero-Copy Data Sharing Actually Does Between Salesforce, Snowflake, and Databricks

How zero-copy sharing works between Salesforce, Snowflake, and Databricks: query, file, and catalog federation compared, with failure modes and governance.

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Apache Polaris 1.7.0 and the Quiet Work of Making a Catalog Trustworthy

Apache Polaris 1.7.0 and the Quiet Work of Making a Catalog Trustworthy

Apache Polaris 1.7.0 deep dive: idempotent writes, semantic models, stricter credential vending, orphan cleanup, and what the upgrade asks of you.

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