In The Grand Schema of Things
Episodes
SAP intends to Acquire Dremio, “Architecting an Apache Iceberg Lakehouse” releasing soon
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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AI Updates, Lakehouse Streaming (Iceberg/Fluss), and more!
19 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Merced as always discusses his thoughts on news in the tech world including AI updates and streaming to data lakehouses. Follow Alex on Social: a...
Understanding AI Agent Skills, MCP and Custom GPTs/Gems
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Merced discusses the differences between different ways of customizing agent behavior and when to use which. – Agent Skills– Model Co...
Embracing AI Disruption and AI Tooling
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Merced talks about how his optimism about the Agentic AI tool and poses the question, if people can run as fast as they could before AI, instead ...
More Thoughts on the State of AI Software Development
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Merced discusses more about his experience with the Google Anitgravity IDE Follow Alex Merced at AlexMerced.com
2025 Reflections, Google Antigravity, NotebookLM, Dremio AI Agent, Pangolin Catalog, Dremioframe & Iceframe Python Libraries for Apache Iceberg
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Merced (AlexMerced.com) discusses:– his thoughts on thriving in 2026– His use of Google’s Antigravity– His use of Noteboo...
Why do Semantic Layers matter so much?
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Gaming Handheld Buying Guide and New Lakehouse Free Trial
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guide to the Dremio Free Trial: https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/comprehensive-hands-on-walk-through?r=h4f8p In this episode I make som suggesti...
Lakehouse Catalogs Beyond Apache Iceberg, What could they Look Like?
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Merced discusses different paths to a Universal Lakehouse Catalog standard and their pros and cons. Find links to books, social and more at AlexM...
Understanding the role of MCP, Langchain and Agent2Agent
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Merced discusses the rising standards within the Agentic AI Space. Buy Alex Merced’s latest book “Architecting an Apache Iceberg Lake...
Enabling and Optimizing Agentic AI: Access, Performance and the Semantic Layer
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Merced discusses three bottlenecks in building Agentic AI Applications and how platforms like Dremio can address them. Get hands-on with Dremio a...
Why Apache Polaris will Become the Industry Standard Data Lakehouse Catalog
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Past is Prologue. Alex Merced discusses lessons from the table format wars that can help predict the outcome of the catalog wars. Follow Alex at AlexM...
Data News: Snowflake/Databricks Announcements, Iceberg V3
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Merced talks about the annoucement at Snowflake and Databricks respective conferences in particular when it comes to the lakehouse. Follow Alex: ...
Data News: DuckLake, Confluent’s TableFlow, New Book!
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Go to the DataLakehouseHub.com and join my Slack Community Download Free Iceberg Book: https://drmevn.fyi/podcast52725iceberg Download Free Polaris Bo...
Bonus – What is MCP? (Model Context Protocol – Modern AI 101)
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Merced discusses modern AI and the new MCP standard and what it means. Follow Alex’s Blogs on and on Social at AlexMerced.com
Will Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake Merge?
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Merced discusses the idea of whether Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake could merge. Follow my blog: https://medium.alexmerced.blog
2025, Data Lakehouse Looking Forward
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Merced discusses what he looks forward to in 2025 in the Data Lakehouse Space. Alex Merced Event Listings: https://lu.ma/LakehouselinkupsAlex on ...
BONUS: Data Lakehouse Crash Course (Polaris, Nessie, Unity, Gravitino, Lakekeeper and more!)
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Register for the catalog Course: https://drmevn.fyi/catalogcourse1024 Watch the Iceberg Crash Course: https://drmevn.fyi/icebergcourse1024 L...
FREE Apache Iceberg Crash Course
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Register for the Course: https://bit.ly/am-2024-iceberg-live-crash-course-1 Free Copy of Apache Iceberg Book: https://bit.ly/am-iceberg-book My social...
9 – Data Protection by Design and by Default
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The “Data Protection by Design and Default ” principle is a critical concept in data compliance, especially under regulations like the Gen...
8 – Thinking Through Data Models for Incremental Ingestion
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Merced talks about how different modeling approaches can have different implications for doing incremental ingestion into analytics systems. Hand...
7 – How do you model graph data?
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Merced discusses Graph Data and How you model it. Build a Data Lakehouse on Your Laptop Deploy Deploy into Production
#1 – intro to catalogs, manifests and metadata. Oh my!
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alex Merced introduces his new podcast “Catalogs, Manifests, and Metadata. Oh my!” covering open-source data projects lik...
6 – An Overview of what is Data Vault Modeling
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Merced discusses what is Data Vault Modeling.
5 – Understanding Data Mesh
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Merced discusses what is data mesh Follow Alex Merced, Links are all here:https://bio.alexmerced.com/data Read Alex’s recent blogs at dremi...
4 – Inmon & Kimball Warehouse Modeling
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Merced talks about the high-level differences between mainline approaches to modeling a data warehouse. Social Links: bio.alexmerced.com/data You...
2024 Preview – Data/Web Content
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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3 – Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD)
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Merced discusses the data modeling concept of Slowly Changing Dimension and goes over SCD types 1-6
2 – Data Modeling vs Data Management
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Merced discusses what is the difference between Data Management and Data Modeling and why they both matter.
Call for Speakers – Subsurface 2024 (Live in NYC May 2024)
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Submit your talks here: https://www.dremio.com/subsurface/
1 – Data Look Back: From On-Prem Data Warehouses to Zero-ETL Data Lakehouses
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Merced goes through the history of data talking about how tools and platforms have evolved up today’s cutting edge architectural patterns.