How to build an Apache Iceberg lakehouse that runs fully offline: storage, catalog, compute, cross-zone transfer, compliance, and the failure modes that bite.
How decision agents can act on analytical reads through transactional APIs safely: conditional writes, sagas with compensations, decision records, blast limits.
Which Iceberg commit conflicts are real when hundreds of agents write, plus commit buffers, partitioning, catalog support, benchmarks, and a checklist.
How Iceberg V3 deletion vectors replaced accumulating positional delete files and made merge-on-read viable for streaming and CDC tables.
