Why equality deletes slow Iceberg reads for streaming upserts, what the V4 proposal changes, and how to convert them to deletion vectors with Flink and verify.
Agent reliability is a property of the stack the model sits on. Five layers with distinct owners and failure modes turn the agent is unreliable.
Fluss puts a columnar, indexed hot tier between Kafka and Iceberg. Here's what it changes structurally, what Kafka still does better, and how to benchmark.
A lakehouse cannot serve sub-second queries over seconds-old data. A hot tier in front solves it, with consequences for consistency, governance.
