Event-driven compaction is valuable when agents coordinate maintenance with workload signals, table health, and commit safety.
Microsoft Fabric agentic analytics is a reminder that schemas, semantic models, and governed lakehouse design now shape AI behavior.
Machine-speed analytics requires machine-enforced policy, identity, masking, filtering, and audit controls.
Apache Iceberg v4 discussion should focus on planning cost, metadata layout, and object storage round trips, not vague claims about faster tables.