Why Iceberg commits fail on stale metadata as writer counts grow, how isolation levels and retry settings change the outcome, and how to budget for contention.
Jackson 3 changes everything: package names, unchecked exceptions, flipped defaults. Here's what breaks, why the engines are fine and your service isn't.
How to connect an AI agent to Apache Polaris with its official MCP server: authentication, adding a read path, tool descriptions, and credential vending.
How catalog federation gives Iceberg tables in several regions one authorization model and audit point, what it cannot fix, and how to build the topology.
