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Tutorials, podcasts, and videos for developers — by Alex Merced, Head of Developer Relations at Dremio and author of 35+ books.

Explore the blog for guides on web development, data engineering, Apache Iceberg, agentic AI, and more. Guest submissions welcome — pitch your idea at alex@grokoverflow.com.

Must Reads — Data Lakehouses & Agentic Analytics

Authoritative guides from the Dremio blog on building intelligent, open lakehouse architectures.

Semantic Layer

The Semantic Layer: The Definitive Guide

Understand how a semantic layer unifies business logic, accelerates self-service analytics, and becomes the foundation of AI-ready data architectures.

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Apache Polaris

Apache Polaris: The Catalog Standard for Lakehouses and AI

Learn how Apache Polaris is establishing a universal open catalog standard that lets any engine read and write Apache Iceberg tables without vendor lock-in.

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Table Formats

What Are Table Formats and Why Were They Needed?

Trace the evolution from raw Parquet files to modern table formats like Apache Iceberg — the innovation that unlocked ACID transactions on object storage.

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Dremio

What Is Dremio?

A comprehensive overview of Dremio's Intelligent Lakehouse Platform — how reflections, semantic layers, and multi-engine federation work together.

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Apache Iceberg

What Apache Iceberg Native Actually Means

Cut through the marketing: discover what it truly means to be Apache Iceberg-native versus merely Iceberg-compatible, and why the distinction matters.

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Open Source

Open Source and the Data Lakehouse

Explore how open-source projects — Iceberg, Parquet, Arrow, and Polaris — form an interoperable stack that keeps your data free from proprietary control.

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Agentic AI

What Is Agentic Analytics?

Discover how AI agents autonomously query, reason over, and act on lakehouse data — fundamentally changing how organizations derive insight at scale.

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Lakehouse

The Definitive Guide to the Data Lakehouse

The canonical end-to-end guide: what a data lakehouse is, how it compares to data warehouses and data lakes, and how to architect one for your organization.

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Performance

How Dremio Keeps Agentic Analytics Fast Without Manual Tuning

Learn how Dremio's autonomous optimization layer — reflections, compaction, and vectorized execution — keeps AI agent queries fast without manual DBA work.

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Recent Articles & Tutorials

Stay up to date with my latest guides, walkthroughs, and deep dives on data lakehouses, web development, and AI.

AI & Agents2026-07-28

Guardrails for Analytics Agents That Do More Than Answer Questions

The risk isn't agents going rogue, it's agents acting correctly on bad input at machine speed. Here's how to classify actions by consequence, gate capability, and design approval steps people actually use.

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AI & Agents2026-07-28

Building Agent Telemetry Tables in Iceberg That Survive an Audit

A practical guide to building agent decision traces in Apache Iceberg that support audit reconstruction, governance review, and cost attribution across sessions.

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AI & Agents2026-07-28

What Agentic Analytics Actually Costs, and How to Keep It Bounded

Agent analytics generates two cost streams that scale on different variables. Here's the arithmetic, the levers that actually move the number, and how to build attribution before you need it.

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Apache Iceberg2026-07-28

Running an Apache Iceberg Lakehouse With No Internet Connection

A practical guide to deploying an Iceberg lakehouse in air-gapped environments: component choices, artifact pipelines, identity without a cloud, and the operational realities that surprise teams.

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Apache Iceberg2026-07-28

When the Query Optimizer Starts Managing Its Own Materializations

Autonomous materialized view management replaces quarterly review meetings with workload-driven scoring, and it's essential when AI agents generate unpredictable query patterns.

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Data Engineering2026-07-28

Why AI Agents Fail on Raw Data, and What to Give Them Instead

Agents fail on raw lake data because business rules live in people's heads. Data products with semantic contracts fix this at the source.

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