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Web & Data: Interviews by Alex Merced
Understanding the role of MCP, Langchain and Agent2Agent
Alex Merced discusses the rising standards within the Agentic AI Space. Buy Alex Merced’s latest book “Architecting an Apache Iceberg Lakehouse” use discount code mercedconf25 for a 40% discount. https://www.manning.com/books/architecting-an-apache-iceberg-lakehouse Follow Alex on Social at AlexMerced.com
2025-09-26
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
Understanding the role of MCP, Langchain and Agent2Agent
Alex Merced discusses the rising standards within the Agentic AI Space. Buy Alex Merced’s latest book “Architecting an Apache Iceberg Lakehouse” use discount code mercedconf25 for a 40% discount. https://www.manning.com/books/architecting-an-apache-iceberg-lakehouse Follow Alex on Social at AlexMerced.com
2025-09-26
00 min
Catalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data
Understanding the role of MCP, Langchain and Agent2Agent
Alex Merced discusses the rising standards within the Agentic AI Space. Buy Alex Merced’s latest book “Architecting an Apache Iceberg Lakehouse” use discount code mercedconf25 for a 40% discount. https://www.manning.com/books/architecting-an-apache-iceberg-lakehouse Follow Alex on Social at AlexMerced.com
2025-09-26
00 min
In The Grand Schema of Things
Understanding the role of MCP, Langchain and Agent2Agent
Alex Merced discusses the rising standards within the Agentic AI Space. Buy Alex Merced’s latest book “Architecting an Apache Iceberg Lakehouse” use discount code mercedconf25 for a 40% discount. https://www.manning.com/books/architecting-an-apache-iceberg-lakehouse Follow Alex on Social at AlexMerced.com
2025-09-26
00 min
Web & Data: Interviews by Alex Merced
Enabling and Optimizing Agentic AI: Access, Performance and the Semantic Layer
Alex Merced discusses three bottlenecks in building Agentic AI Applications and how platforms like Dremio can address them. Get hands-on with Dremio at Dremio.com Find all of Alex Merced’s blogs and resources at AlexMerced.com
2025-09-05
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
Enabling and Optimizing Agentic AI: Access, Performance and the Semantic Layer
Alex Merced discusses three bottlenecks in building Agentic AI Applications and how platforms like Dremio can address them. Get hands-on with Dremio at Dremio.com Find all of Alex Merced’s blogs and resources at AlexMerced.com
2025-09-05
00 min
Catalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data
Enabling and Optimizing Agentic AI: Access, Performance and the Semantic Layer
Alex Merced discusses three bottlenecks in building Agentic AI Applications and how platforms like Dremio can address them. Get hands-on with Dremio at Dremio.com Find all of Alex Merced’s blogs and resources at AlexMerced.com
2025-09-05
00 min
In The Grand Schema of Things
Enabling and Optimizing Agentic AI: Access, Performance and the Semantic Layer
Alex Merced discusses three bottlenecks in building Agentic AI Applications and how platforms like Dremio can address them. Get hands-on with Dremio at Dremio.com Find all of Alex Merced’s blogs and resources at AlexMerced.com
2025-09-05
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
Why Apache Polaris will Become the Industry Standard Data Lakehouse Catalog
Past is Prologue. Alex Merced discusses lessons from the table format wars that can help predict the outcome of the catalog wars. Follow Alex at AlexMerced.com Join the #amtech channel on the Data Lakehouse Hub to discuss the podcast: https://join.slack.com/t/thedatalakehousehub/shared_invite/zt-274yc8sza-mI2zhCW8LGkOh1uxuf8T5Q
2025-07-01
00 min
Web & Data: Interviews by Alex Merced
Why Apache Polaris will Become the Industry Standard Data Lakehouse Catalog
Past is Prologue. Alex Merced discusses lessons from the table format wars that can help predict the outcome of the catalog wars. Follow Alex at AlexMerced.com Join the #amtech channel on the Data Lakehouse Hub to discuss the podcast: https://join.slack.com/t/thedatalakehousehub/shared_invite/zt-274yc8sza-mI2zhCW8LGkOh1uxuf8T5Q
2025-07-01
00 min
Catalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data
Why Apache Polaris will Become the Industry Standard Data Lakehouse Catalog
Past is Prologue. Alex Merced discusses lessons from the table format wars that can help predict the outcome of the catalog wars. Follow Alex at AlexMerced.com Join the #amtech channel on the Data Lakehouse Hub to discuss the podcast: https://join.slack.com/t/thedatalakehousehub/shared_invite/zt-274yc8sza-mI2zhCW8LGkOh1uxuf8T5Q
2025-07-01
00 min
In The Grand Schema of Things
Why Apache Polaris will Become the Industry Standard Data Lakehouse Catalog
Past is Prologue. Alex Merced discusses lessons from the table format wars that can help predict the outcome of the catalog wars. Follow Alex at AlexMerced.com Join the #amtech channel on the Data Lakehouse Hub to discuss the podcast: https://join.slack.com/t/thedatalakehousehub/shared_invite/zt-274yc8sza-mI2zhCW8LGkOh1uxuf8T5Q
2025-07-01
00 min
Catalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data
Data News: Snowflake/Databricks Announcements, Iceberg V3
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
2025-06-11
00 min
In The Grand Schema of Things
Data News: Snowflake/Databricks Announcements, Iceberg V3
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
2025-06-11
00 min
In The Grand Schema of Things
Bonus – What is MCP? (Model Context Protocol – Modern AI 101)
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
2025-04-06
00 min
Catalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data
Bonus – What is MCP? (Model Context Protocol – Modern AI 101)
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
2025-04-06
00 min
Web & Data: Interviews by Alex Merced
Bonus – What is MCP? (Model Context Protocol – Modern AI 101)
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
2025-04-06
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
Bonus – What is MCP? (Model Context Protocol – Modern AI 101)
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
2025-04-06
00 min
In The Grand Schema of Things
Will Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake Merge?
Alex Merced discusses the idea of whether Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake could merge. Follow my blog: https://medium.alexmerced.blog
2025-02-21
00 min
Catalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data
Will Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake Merge?
Alex Merced discusses the idea of whether Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake could merge. Follow my blog: https://medium.alexmerced.blog
2025-02-21
00 min
Web & Data: Interviews by Alex Merced
2025, Data Lakehouse Looking Forward
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/
2024-12-30
00 min
Catalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data
2025, Data Lakehouse Looking Forward
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/
2024-12-30
00 min
In The Grand Schema of Things
2025, Data Lakehouse Looking Forward
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/
2024-12-30
00 min
Economics and Finance for N00bs with Alex Merced
What is my general view on politics and economics?
Alex Merced breaks down his world view on politics and economics. Follow Alex on twitter @loveatarian
2024-11-11
00 min
Thinking and Feeling Libertarian with the Loveatarian
What is my general view on politics and economics?
Alex Merced breaks down his world view on politics and economics. Follow Alex on twitter @loveatarian
2024-11-11
00 min
Thoughts and Opinions of Alex Merced
What is my general view on politics and economics?
Alex Merced breaks down his world view on politics and economics. Follow Alex on twitter @loveatarian
2024-11-11
00 min
Catalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data
12 – My Experience at Apache Community Over Code (Apache Iceberg, Apache Polaris)
Alex Merced discusses going to Apache Community Over Code 2024 in Denver and discusses Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris. Follow Alex https://alexmerced.com/data
2024-10-11
00 min
Catalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data
11 – What is Apache and the Apache Software Foundation?
Alex Merced gives a brief overview of what is and the importance of the Apache Software Foundation.
2024-08-10
00 min
Catalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data
10 – Apache Iceberg Table Maintenance
Alex Merced discusses how to maintain Apache Iceberg tables. Find all of Alex’s social links here: https://bio.alexmerced.com/data
2024-07-26
00 min
Thoughts and Opinions of Alex Merced
Capitalism and Universal Healthcare, Income and Education
Alex Merced discusses his thoughts on the concept that “Universal Healthcare, Income and Education would lead to better Capitalism”. Alex Merced breaks down what makes sense and what doesn’t about this sentiment. Follow Alex on twitter @loveatarian
2024-07-21
00 min
Thinking and Feeling Libertarian with the Loveatarian
Capitalism and Universal Healthcare, Income and Education
Alex Merced discusses his thoughts on the concept that “Universal Healthcare, Income and Education would lead to better Capitalism”. Alex Merced breaks down what makes sense and what doesn’t about this sentiment. Follow Alex on twitter @loveatarian
2024-07-21
00 min
Economics and Finance for N00bs with Alex Merced
Capitalism and Universal Healthcare, Income and Education
Alex Merced discusses his thoughts on the concept that “Universal Healthcare, Income and Education would lead to better Capitalism”. Alex Merced breaks down what makes sense and what doesn’t about this sentiment. Follow Alex on twitter @loveatarian
2024-07-21
00 min
Catalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data
9 – The Open Source Nessie Catalog for Apache Iceberg Tables
Alex Merced explains why catalogs are such a big deal at the moment and what makes Nessie a special open source project. projectnessie.org Follow Alex, find links at bio.alexmerced.com/data
2024-06-18
00 min
In The Grand Schema of Things
8 – Thinking Through Data Models for Incremental Ingestion
Alex Merced talks about how different modeling approaches can have different implications for doing incremental ingestion into analytics systems. 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
2024-04-17
00 min
Catalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data
#7 – How Parquet Files Relate to Table Formats like Iceberg, Delta Lake and Hudi
Alex Merced discusses what are parquet files and how they fit in to the data lakehouse table format story. 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
2024-04-17
00 min
Catalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data
#6 – Apache Iceberg Manifest Lists
Alex Merced discusses Apache Iceberg Manifest Lists
2024-04-12
00 min
Catalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data
#5 – Apache Iceberg Metadata.json files
Alex Merced explains metadata.json files!
2024-04-09
00 min
Catalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data
#3 – What is Apache Iceberg?
Alex Merced discusses What is Apache Iceberg, the Data Lakehouse Table Format.
2024-04-03
00 min
Dev Rel & Dev Advocacy The Podcast
7 – Building Momentum in the Speaking Circuit
Alex Merced discusses tips for dev rels and dev advocates to build their public speaking momentum. Follow Alex, find links at AlexMerced.com
2024-03-30
00 min
Catalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data
#3 – What is a Data Lakehouse Table Format
Alex Merced explains what are table formats like Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi and Delta Lake Follow Alex at https://bio.alexmerced.com/data
2024-03-29
00 min
In The Grand Schema of Things
7 – How do you model graph data?
Alex Merced discusses Graph Data and How you model it. Build a Data Lakehouse on Your Laptop Deploy Deploy into Production
2024-03-28
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
33 – What is DevOps?
Alex Merced discusses what is DevOps? Follow Alex on Social: https://bio.alexmerced.com/web
2024-03-28
00 min
Catalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data
#2 – What is Data Lakehouse?
Alex Merced explains what is a Data Lakehouse? Follow Alex at https://bio.alexmerced.com/data
2024-03-27
00 min
Catalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data
#1 – intro to catalogs, manifests and metadata. Oh my!
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 […]
2024-03-25
00 min
In The Grand Schema of Things
#1 – intro to catalogs, manifests and metadata. Oh my!
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 […]
2024-03-25
00 min
Web & Data: Interviews by Alex Merced
#1 – intro to catalogs, manifests and metadata. Oh my!
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 […]
2024-03-25
00 min
Thoughts and Opinions of Alex Merced
Reflecing on “The Weeds” Episode about Limitarianism (Banning Millionaires)
Alex Merced talks about his thoughts on ideas like limiting income to 10 Million per year and the supposed effects of inequality and fixing it through policy. Find my social links https://bio.alexmerced.com/opinion
2024-02-28
00 min
Economics and Finance for N00bs with Alex Merced
Reflecing on “The Weeds” Episode about Limitarianism (Banning Millionaires)
Alex Merced talks about his thoughts on ideas like limiting income to 10 Million per year and the supposed effects of inequality and fixing it through policy. Find my social links https://bio.alexmerced.com/opinion
2024-02-28
00 min
In The Grand Schema of Things
6 – An Overview of what is Data Vault Modeling
Alex Merced discusses what is Data Vault Modeling.
2024-02-21
00 min
In The Grand Schema of Things
5 – Understanding Data Mesh
Alex Merced discusses what is data mesh Follow Alex Merced, Links are all here:https://bio.alexmerced.com/data Read Alex’s recent blogs at dremio.com/blog
2024-02-02
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
32 – Understanding Multithreading, Events Loops, Concurrency and Parallelism
Alex Merced talks about breaking down processing into different threads, different cores, and different machines. Follow Alex on Social, all links here https://bio.alexmerced.com/web/
2024-02-02
00 min
In The Grand Schema of Things
4 – Inmon & Kimball Warehouse Modeling
Alex Merced talks about the high-level differences between mainline approaches to modeling a data warehouse. Social Links: bio.alexmerced.com/data Youtube: youtube.com/@alexmerceddata
2024-01-21
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
31 – JS Bundlers (Browserify, Webpack, Rollup, Vite, etc.)
Alex Merced discusses JS Bundlers Subscribe on youtube youtube.com/@alexmercedcoder youtube.com/@alexmerceddata bio.alexmerced.com
2024-01-21
00 min
Web & Data: Interviews by Alex Merced
03 – Nik Acheson – Dremio – Sr Director, Product Management & Strategy
Alex Merced interviews Nik Acheson, who serves as Sr Director, Product Management & Strategy for Dremio, the Data Lakehouse Platform.
2024-01-05
00 min
Economics and Finance for N00bs with Alex Merced
BONUS – Emmet Shear and a 50% Inheritance Tax (My Thoughts)
Alex Merced reflects on a twitter conversation involving former Open AI CEO Emmet Shear about a 50% inheritance tax.
2023-12-29
00 min
Thoughts and Opinions of Alex Merced
BONUS – Emmet Shear and a 50% Inheritance Tax (My Thoughts)
Alex Merced reflects on a twitter conversation involving former Open AI CEO Emmet Shear about a 50% inheritance tax.
2023-12-29
00 min
In The Grand Schema of Things
3 – Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD)
Alex Merced discusses the data modeling concept of Slowly Changing Dimension and goes over SCD types 1-6
2023-12-20
00 min
Thoughts and Opinions of Alex Merced
11 – What I would tell a child about beliefs
Alex Merced discusses how if he ever had children, how he would present the idea of beliefs to them.
2023-12-10
00 min
In The Grand Schema of Things
2 – Data Modeling vs Data Management
Alex Merced discusses what is the difference between Data Management and Data Modeling and why they both matter.
2023-10-31
00 min
Dev Rel & Dev Advocacy The Podcast
6 – The Starlight Docs Framework for Creating Community Knowledge Bases
Alex Merced discusses how he’s used the starlight framework to give gifts to the communities he serves:
2023-10-20
00 min
In The Grand Schema of Things
1 – Data Look Back: From On-Prem Data Warehouses to Zero-ETL Data Lakehouses
Alex Merced goes through the history of data talking about how tools and platforms have evolved up today’s cutting edge architectural patterns.
2023-10-19
00 min
Dev Rel & Dev Advocacy The Podcast
5 – Docker and Dev Education
Alex Merced discusses using docker for dev education, here is a link to the resources he mentions. In just a few commands, you can have everything you need to practice ingestion and querying with popular data software. Just install Docker and then run the commands in the image. You can also follow the directions in […]
2023-08-23
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
31 – Cross-Origin Cookies
Alex Merced talks about cross origin cookies, read his blog on the topic here: https://dev.to/alexmercedcoder/expressjs-handling-cross-origin-cookies-38l9
2023-08-23
00 min
Economics and Finance for N00bs with Alex Merced
8 – Understand the Relationship between Inflation and Government Spending (Exploring Mechanisms)
Alex Merced discusses– what is inflation how it is always a monetary event– how central banks manage money supply– how gov spending influences central banks
2023-07-07
00 min
Thoughts and Opinions of Alex Merced
10 – Politics and Division
Alex Merced discusses how politics divides society.
2023-06-16
00 min
Dev Rel & Dev Advocacy The Podcast
4 – Video & Audio Content
Alex Merced gives advice on video and audio content. Follow Alex at @amdatalakehouse or @alexmercedcoder
2023-05-08
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
29 – Monolith vs Serverless Application Architecture
Alex Merced discusses the difference between a monolith and serverless architecture reflecting on Amazon’s recent migration article.
2023-05-08
00 min
Dev Rel & Dev Advocacy The Podcast
3 – Good Media Apps & Generative AI
Alex Merced discusses how to use mobile apps and generative AI to be a prolific and effective content creator.
2023-04-12
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
BONUS: What is Object Storage like AWS S3, Minio and more!
Alex Merced discusses what is Object Storage and the history of file systems. Join the community at datanation.click
2023-04-12
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
BONUS: The Big Picture at a Tech Company (Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales)
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
2023-03-23
00 min
Dev Rel & Dev Advocacy The Podcast
BONUS: The Big Picture at a Tech Company (Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales)
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
2023-03-23
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
28 – What is a Database Connection String?
Alex Merced talks about the concept of a database connection string, database drivers and object managers. Join the community at devNursery.com Follow me @alexmercedcoder
2023-03-21
00 min
Economics and Finance for N00bs with Alex Merced
8 – Explaining the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse
Alex Merced discusses what happened with Silicon Valley Bank
2023-03-12
00 min
Dev Rel & Dev Advocacy The Podcast
2 – Blogging as a Dev Rel or Developer Advocate
Alex Merced discusses thinking through what you are going to write as a developer advocate or dev rel.
2023-03-10
00 min
Dev Rel & Dev Advocacy The Podcast
1 – What is Dev Rel & Dev Advocacy? Who am I?
Alex Merced discusses:
2023-02-23
00 min
Economics and Finance for N00bs with Alex Merced
7 – The Process of Buying and Home and Mortgage Rates
Alex Merced talks about his experience buying a home and knowledge that may be useful for potential home buyers.
2023-02-18
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
24 – Singing Praises to Builder.io, Mitosis, Qwik, etc.
Alex Merced’s act like an outright fanboy about the amazing things coming out of builder.io.
2023-02-15
00 min
Web & Data: Interviews by Alex Merced
2 – Bob Haffner, Data Engineer and Host of the Engineering Side of Data
Alex Merced discusses with Bob Haffner, the host of the Engineering Side of Data about his career and his recommendations for aspiring Data professionals as well as reflecting on the state of the data industry.
2023-02-15
00 min
Web & Data: Interviews by Alex Merced
1 – Joe Keohan – Frontend Developer and Bootcamp Instructor
Alex Merced interview Joe Keohan, Frontend developer for Shopify and Bootcamp Instructor for General Assembly
2023-02-01
00 min
Economics and Finance for N00bs with Alex Merced
6 – Understanding the Inverse Relationships between Rates and Prices
Alex Merced helps explain the nature of why prices of everything drops when rates are rising. tl:dr Raising rates is a sign of higher perceived risk from either capital shortage or an unsafe econ environment, so prices adjust downwards to make economic transactions more worth the risk. Lower rates are the exact opposite, prices go […]
2023-01-23
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
22 – What is a URL or a URI? Connection Strings Explained.
Alex Merced takes a moment to explain what is a connection string and how to understand their parts. follow on twitter @alexmercedcoder
2023-01-20
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
Happy New Year Web Dev 101 & DataNation
Alex Merced kicks off the new year with some updates, follow him on twitter: -> @amdatalakehouse -> @alexmercedcoder
2023-01-06
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
20 – How My Domain was stolen (GPDHost, Enom, and Godaddy)
Alex Merced discusses how his domain, AlexMercedCoder.com was stolen.
2022-10-14
00 min
Living Better (Health, Motivation, Productivity) with Alex Merced
5 – Exercise and its role in Weight Loss
Alex Merced discusses exercise
2022-10-14
00 min
Living Better (Health, Motivation, Productivity) with Alex Merced
4 – Carbs, Fibers and Sugar (Glucose, Sucrose and Fructose)
Alex Merced discusses the basics of carbs and how to think about them if you include carbs in your diet.
2022-10-07
00 min
Living Better (Health, Motivation, Productivity) with Alex Merced
2 – Designing your Coffee
Alex Merced talks about how to use coffee to maximize health benefits. Follow Alex at @alexmerced
2022-09-16
00 min
Living Better (Health, Motivation, Productivity) with Alex Merced
1 – My Weight Loss Journey (Exercise, Fasting, Fermentation)
Alex Merced talks about how he loss 40lbs in 3 months.
2022-09-02
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
New Podcasts! Economics and Finance for N00bs & Living Better
Alex Merced introduces some new podcasts to soon show up on spotify, google play, stitcher and iTunes.
2022-08-30
00 min
Living Better (Health, Motivation, Productivity) with Alex Merced
New Podcasts! Economics and Finance for N00bs & Living Better
Alex Merced introduces some new podcasts to soon show up on spotify, google play, stitcher and iTunes.
2022-08-30
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
15 – What is a Virtual DOM?
Alex Merced explains what is a virtual DOM follow alex on twitter @alexmercedcoder
2022-07-08
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
14 – The Python Programming Language
Alex Merced discusses what is Python Follow Alex on twitter @alexmercedcoder Join the community at devNursery.com and GrokOverflow.com
2022-06-24
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
#13 – Authentication and Authorization
Alex Merced explains the concept of Authentication and Authorization Follow Alex on twitter @alexmercedcoder
2022-06-18
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
#12 Web Forms
Alex Merced talks about web forms Follow Alex on twitter @alexmercedcoder
2022-06-10
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
#10 – How the Web Works (TCP, IP, HTTP)
Alex Merced gives a technical backbone to how the internet works to help explain backend development. Follow Alex on twitter @alexmercedcoder Tutorials in blog and video format at devNursery.com and GrokOverflow.com
2022-05-28
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
#9 – Rendering Web Pages (Server, Client, Static)
Alex Merced discusses the differences between Server Side Rendering, Client Side Rendering and Static Site Generation. Learn more at devNursery.com and GrokOverflow.com Follow Alex on Twitter @alexmercedcoder
2022-05-20
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
#8 – Backend Development
Alex Merced discusses what is Backend Development. Follow Alex on Twitter @alexmercedcoder Find tutorials and blogs at devNursery.com and GrokOverflow.com
2022-05-19
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
#7 – Frontend Frameworks (React, Svelte, Angular, Vue, SolidJS, Alpine, HTMX)
Alex Merced discusses what are Frontend Web Frameworks and what is there purpose and when they should be used. Follow Alex on twitter @alexmercedcoder Video and Blog tutorials at devNursery.com and GrokOverflow.com
2022-05-18
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
#6 – Typescript and Typing
Alex Merced discusses what is Typescript and Typing. Follow Alex on twitter @alexmercedcoder Find tutorials and videos at devNursery.com and Grokoverflow.com
2022-05-17
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
#4 – Javascript
Alex Merced discusses what is Javascript and its History. Follow Alex at @alexmercedcoder Learn from his tutorial blogs and videos at GrokOverflow.com and devNursery.com
2022-05-13
00 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
#3 CSS
Alex Merced discusses CSS Find Alex Merced’s HTML & CSS Playlists and more at devNursery.com and GrokOverflow.com Follow Alex Merced on Twitter @alexmercedcoder
2022-05-13
00 min