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Iceberg, The Right Idea - The Wrong Spec - Part 2 of 2: The Spec
Let us finally look at what is so wrong with the Iceberg spec and why this simply isn't a serious attempt at solving the metadata problem of large Data Lakes. In the first part of this I took...

Iceberg, The Right Idea - The Wrong Spec - Part 1 of 2: History
Iceberg: The great unifying vision finally allowing us to escape the vendor lock-in of our database engines. One table and metadata format to find them ... And in the darkness bind I the...
Greed vs Bravery Based Engineering
It is difficult to find words that accurately describe the cruelty, selfishness and outright evil on display from the White House these days. The guiding principle of Gordon Gekko: is...