Tag: ai-agents

All the articles with the tag “ai-agents”.

• Data This Week #31

  13 Sept, 2026 · 5 min read

  Pandas vs. single-machine engines, Delta Lake 4.3 selective data replacement, PlanetScale's Neki, PyIceberg with Apache Polaris, Shopify's gisting, Sony LIV's real-time analytics, and a community debate on dbt development standards.

• Data This Week #30

  6 Sept, 2026 · 7 min read

  Amazon acquires DuckDB Labs, AngelList's self-updating Markdown semantic layer, managing AI coding costs at Databricks, federated MCP access for AI agents, Glue 6.0 real-time mode, Polars 2.0 RC, and community advice on extracting from legacy on-prem databases.

• Data This Week #28

  16 Aug, 2026 · 5 min read

  Instacart's Postgres-native search replacing Elasticsearch and FAISS, Netflix migrating batch workloads to Kueue on Kubernetes, AWS Dogwood for AI agent governance, distributed DuckDB with Quack, Debezium for CDC-driven event architecture, and the community debate on dbt Cloud pricing.

• Data This Week #20

  21 Jun, 2026 · 5 min read

  Kafka's nine-layer architecture breakdown, self-healing pipeline barriers, ClickHouse full-text search on object storage, Google Cloud Next '26 data infrastructure, watsonx.data semantic layer, Neo4j on Databricks, DuckDB internals, and handling messy Excel ETL.

• Data This Week #19

  14 Jun, 2026 · 5 min read

  Slack's SSH-to-REST EMR migration, clusterless Iceberg Lakehouse with DuckDB, Iceberg v4 metadata proposals, Spark 4.0 on EMR GA, Apache Gravitino unified catalog, and Databricks Omnigent for AI agent orchestration.

• Data This Week #11

  19 Apr, 2026 · 5 min read

  Iceberg cross-account migrations, DuckLake 1.0 metadata, IaC for data engineers, Redshift Iceberg writes, agent-data patterns, LARQL for LLM graph queries, and Dagster pricing debate.