Enterprise AI advantage increasingly comes from governed context, semantic models, and operational data contracts, not only from model choice.
Where PyIceberg works without Spark, such as serverless functions appending small batches, where it does not, and what to measure before scaling it up.
The real-time lakehouse is not one engine. It is a contract between streams, table commits, query paths, and freshness expectations.
REST Catalog V2 LoadTable work matters because clients and catalogs need explicit contracts, not optimistic assumptions.
