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Welcome to "Datanation," the podcast where your host, Alex Merced, takes you on a captivating journey through the fascinating world of data. In each episode, we explore a wide range of data topics, from data engineering and data analytics to the art and science of data-driven decision-making.
In the age of information, data is the currency that drives innovation and progress. "Datanation" is your passport to this ever-evolving landscape, where we unravel the mysteries, dissect the trends, and celebrate the breakthroughs shaping the data-driven future.
Join Alex Merced, a seasoned data enthusiast and educator, as he engages in enlightening discussions, informative interviews, and thought-provoking explorations of data concepts and practices. Whether you're a seasoned data professional, a curious tech enthusiast, or someone simply intrigued by the power of data, this podcast offers valuable insights and knowledge.
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Alex Merced talks about the annoucement at Snowflake and Databricks respective conferences in particular when it comes to the lakehouse. Follow Alex: https://www.alexmerced.com/data
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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
Alex Merced discusses the idea of whether Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake could merge. Follow my blog: https://medium.alexmerced.blog
Alex Merced discusses what he looks forward to in 2025 in the Data Lakehouse Space. Alex Merced Event Listings: https://lu.ma/LakehouselinkupsAlex on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/alextalksdatalakehouses.fyi Alex on Twitter: https://x.com/AMdatalakehouse Alex on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexmerced/
Alex Merced discusses his experience at AWS re:invent follow Alex at AlexMered.com/data
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Alex Merced discusses the news and announcements for dbt coalest 2024. Announcements Alex didn’t mention:– dbt Apache Iceberg support, this is done by working with Iceberg supporting query engines like Dremio – Healthtiles with more information on your dashboard about the health of your models – Auto-exposures in Tableau triggering BI Dashboard updates when models […]
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Alex Merced discusses the difference between Apache Iceberg Catalog and Enterprise Data Catalogs to help clarify the discussions around catalogs in today’s data trends. Follow Alex -> https://bio.alexmerced.com/data
Alex Merced discusses some of the Databricks announcement at the Data + AI summit Follow Alex by visit https://bio.alexmerced.com/data
Alex Merced discusses the value of Open Source Apache Iceberg catalogs in creating a truly open lakehouse environment without Vendor lock-in. Check out my article on the subject: https://open.substack.com/pub/amdatalakehouse/p/open-source-table-format-open-source?r=h4f8p&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Follow me on twitter at @amdatalakehouse
In this episode, we delve into the Apache Iceberg Kafka Connector, a critical tool for streaming data into your data lakehouse. We’ll explore how this connector facilitates seamless data ingestion from Apache Kafka into Apache Iceberg, enhancing your real-time analytics capabilities and data lakehouse efficiency. We’ll cover: Join us to understand how the Apache Iceberg […]
Alex Merced discusses some of the major differences in how Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake work that lead to: Follow me on social https://bio.alexmerced.com/data
Alex Merced discusses the mistakes that makes Snowflake bills get so large. Hands-On Lakehouse Laptop Exercises:– MongoDB with Dremio: https://bit.ly/am-mongodb-dashboard– SQLServer with Dremio: https://bit.ly/am-sqlserver-dashboard– Postgres with Dremio: https://bit.ly/am-postgres-to-dashboard https://bio.alexmerced.com/data
Alex Merced discusses the benefits of Apache Iceberg’s open data ecosystem! Build a Data Lakehouse on Your Laptop Deploy Deploy into Production
In this episode, Alex Merced introduces his new podcast “Catalogs, Manifests, and Metadata. Oh my!” covering open-source data projects like Apache Iceberg and others. Make sure to subscribe, this podcast will be showing up in podcast directories over the next week or so of the publishing of this episode. Follow Alex Merced, find all links […]
Alex Merced discusses many of the open source projects aiming to reduce the frictions the heavily fragmented data world. Follow me on Socials:https://bio.alexmerced.com/data
Alex Merced discusses how formats like Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi and Delta Lake work and are implemented into your favorite tools, distinguishing what is the responsibility of the format and there responsibility of the engine. Follow Alex on Social, find all links at:https://bio.alexmerced.com/data
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Alex Merced discusses Dremio’s new generative AI Features and the future of Data Lakehouses. Follow Alex on twitter @amdatalakehouse
Alex Merced reflects on a recent article from Lauren Balik on the topic of ELT. Here is the Article:https://medium.com/@laurengreerbalik/how-fivetran-dbt-actually-fail-3a20083b2506 Launren’s Twitter: @laurenbalik My Twitter handle: @amdatalakehouse
Alex Merced helps explain how stats are collected and used when working with Parquet files and Apache Iceberg tables. Follow Alex on twitter @amdatalakehouse
Alex Merced discusses what is Object Storage and the history of file systems. Join the community at datanation.click
Alex Merced discusses the different departments at a tech company and how they all fit together to create success. follow alex on twitter Web -> @alexmercedcoder Data -> @amdatalakehouse
Alex Merced discusses what is CI/CD and how to achieve CI/CD pipelines on the data lakehouse.
Alex Merced discusses the different Data Versioning Solutions and the approach different solutions have.
Alex Merced discusses how MPP tools plan tasks and how understanding that can help you plan your writes better. dremio.com/subsurface <— Register for Subsurface
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Alex Merced discusses the different considerations with optimizing data and how no one tool can make every use case performant, but understanding which ones will solve which use cases is the key.
Alex Merced discusses how you can really reduce your Data Warehouse costs by using Dremio to unify and organize your data lake and DuckDB for local ad hoc queries on data pulled through Dremio. Join the slack community at DataNation.click
Alex Merced talks about the trend in data known as Data as Code and how you can embrace it in your data stack. Follow @amdatalakehouse Datanation.click
Alex Merced kicks off the new year with some updates, follow him on twitter: -> @amdatalakehouse -> @alexmercedcoder
Alex Merced encourages everyone to go to Dremio.com and try out the free Dremio test-drive and gives end of year thoughts.
Alex Merced discusses what is a semantic layer for curating your data. Follow Alex @amdatalakehouse Join the community at datanation.click
Alex Merced discusses how complex data stacks can become and how simple they can be with data lakehouse technologies.
Alex Merced discusses the many angles a data engineer should think about engineering data for better performance. Read more at dremio.com/subsurface
Alex Merced introduces some new podcasts to soon show up on spotify, google play, stitcher and iTunes.
Alex talks about what is a Spec, Library and Service when understanding modern tech frameworks.
Alex Merced discusses how Dremio enables companies of all sizes to have big data scalability without having to break the bank so companies can be data oriented earlier on in their lifecycle.
Alex Merced discusses the complexities of what is “open” and why it matters in the technology world.
Alex Merced discusses Iceberg’s Object Storage Compatibility features and why they are so useful for Modern data lakes and data lakehouses.
Alex Merced talks about what is Project Nessie and how it relates to Iceberg tables Join the community at Datanation.click Follow on twitter @amdatalakehouse
Alex Merced discusses what is a Data Mesh and the basics of implementing one. To go even deeper into data mesh, read this article:https://www.dremio.com/blog/enabling-a-data-mesh-with-an-open-lakehouse/ Follow Alex on Twitter @amdatalakehouse
Alex Merced discusses Data Virtualization, what it is, its limitations and how to overcome them. Follow Alex on twitter @amdatalakehouse
Alex Merced explains the concept behind Bloom Filters and Z-Ordering Follow Alex on Twitter @amdatalakehouse
Alex discusses Data Lakehouse table formats Read his other articles on this topic at dremio.com/subsurface Follow Alex on twitter @amdatalakehouse Join the slack community and message Alex at http://www.datanation.click
Alex Merced discusses what is Apache Parquet, Apache Arrow and Apache Arrow Flight and why they are changing how data is handled. Follow Alex on Twitter @amdatalakehouse Join the community at datanation.click
Alex Merced discusses the python libraries Pandas and Numpy and why they are so important. Follow Alex on Twitter @amdatalakehouse Join the community at datanation.click
Alex Merced talks about the different languages that are heavily used in the data world. Follow Alex Merced on twitter @amdatalakehouse
Alex Merced discusses what is and the history of Hadoop and Spark Follow Alex on twitter @amdatalakehouse Join the slack community at Datanation.slack
Alex Merced discusses the definitions and differences between a Data Warehouse, Data Lake and Data Lakehouse. Follow Alex on twitter @amdatalakehouse Join the Slack community at Datanation.click
Alex Meced discusses the differences between Structured and Unstructured data and why it matters. Follow Alex on twitter @amdatalakehouse Join the slack at DataNation.slack
Alex discusses what does it mean to denormalize and normalize data. Follow Alex on twitter @amdatalakehouse Join the Slack community at Datanation.click