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Apr 15, 2026

The Return of the Lakehouse: Iceberg and Delta Compared

The lakehouse pattern is replacing pure warehouse architectures at scale. The two open table formats — Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake — and how to choose.

Mar 22, 2026

Vector Databases: When You Actually Need One

Vector DBs were the hot category of 2023. Most teams that adopted one did not need it. Here is when you genuinely do.

Feb 22, 2026

LLMs in Production: A Reliability Engineering View

LLMs are now load-bearing in real applications. The reliability engineering practices for keeping them up — eval harnesses, fallbacks, observability.

Jan 26, 2026

From Dashboards to Decisions: Building a Data Culture

Most enterprises have dashboards nobody opens. The cultural changes that make data actually drive decisions.

Dec 22, 2025

Why Reverse ETL Became a Category

Data warehouses became the source of truth. Then ops teams needed that truth back in the apps they used. Reverse ETL was inevitable.

Nov 15, 2025

Snowflake vs BigQuery vs ClickHouse: A Practical Guide

Three warehouses, three different sweet spots. The decision criteria that actually matter at scale.

Oct 08, 2025

dbt at Scale: Lessons From a 5,000-Model Project

A dbt codebase eventually becomes a software project. The patterns that work at 5,000 models — and the ones that fall apart.

Aug 18, 2025

The Modern Data Stack: A Five-Year Retrospective

The "modern data stack" promise five years ago was a clean toolkit for analytics. The reality in 2026 is messier and more interesting.