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In The Grand Schema of ThingsData News: Snowflake/Databricks Announcements, Iceberg V3Alex 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/data2025-06-1100 min
Catalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source DataData News: Snowflake/Databricks Announcements, Iceberg V3Alex 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/data2025-06-1100 min
Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder PodcastBonus – 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.com2025-04-0600 min
Web & Data: Interviews by Alex MercedBonus – 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.com2025-04-0600 minCatalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source DataBonus – 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.com2025-04-0600 minIn The Grand Schema of ThingsBonus – 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.com2025-04-0600 minIn The Grand Schema of ThingsWill 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.blog2025-02-2100 minCatalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source DataWill 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.blog2025-02-2100 minWeb & Data: Interviews by Alex Merced2025, Data Lakehouse Looking ForwardAlex 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/2024-12-3000 minCatalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data2025, Data Lakehouse Looking ForwardAlex 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/2024-12-3000 minIn The Grand Schema of Things2025, Data Lakehouse Looking ForwardAlex 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/2024-12-3000 min
Thoughts and Opinions of Alex MercedWhat is my general view on politics and economics?Alex Merced breaks down his world view on politics and economics. Follow Alex on twitter @loveatarian2024-11-1100 min
Thinking and Feeling Libertarian with the LoveatarianWhat is my general view on politics and economics?Alex Merced breaks down his world view on politics and economics. Follow Alex on twitter @loveatarian2024-11-1100 min
Economics and Finance for N00bs with Alex MercedWhat is my general view on politics and economics?Alex Merced breaks down his world view on politics and economics. Follow Alex on twitter @loveatarian2024-11-1100 minCatalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source DataBONUS: Data Lakehouse Crash Course (Polaris, Nessie, Unity, Gravitino, Lakekeeper and more!)Register for the catalog Course: https://drmevn.fyi/catalogcourse1024 Watch the Iceberg Crash Course: https://drmevn.fyi/icebergcourse1024 London Meetup: https://lu.ma/Lakehouselinkups Paris Meetup: https://drmevn.fyi/1120-france-meetup My Calendar of Events: https://lu.ma/Lakehouselinkups2024-11-0500 minIn The Grand Schema of ThingsBONUS: Data Lakehouse Crash Course (Polaris, Nessie, Unity, Gravitino, Lakekeeper and more!)Register for the catalog Course: https://drmevn.fyi/catalogcourse1024 Watch the Iceberg Crash Course: https://drmevn.fyi/icebergcourse1024 London Meetup: https://lu.ma/Lakehouselinkups Paris Meetup: https://drmevn.fyi/1120-france-meetup My Calendar of Events: https://lu.ma/Lakehouselinkups2024-11-0500 minWeb Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder PodcastBONUS: Data Lakehouse Crash Course (Polaris, Nessie, Unity, Gravitino, Lakekeeper and more!)Register for the catalog Course: https://drmevn.fyi/catalogcourse1024 Watch the Iceberg Crash Course: https://drmevn.fyi/icebergcourse1024 London Meetup: https://lu.ma/Lakehouselinkups Paris Meetup: https://drmevn.fyi/1120-france-meetup My Calendar of Events: https://lu.ma/Lakehouselinkups2024-11-0500 minWeb & Data: Interviews by Alex MercedBONUS: Data Lakehouse Crash Course (Polaris, Nessie, Unity, Gravitino, Lakekeeper and more!)Register for the catalog Course: https://drmevn.fyi/catalogcourse1024 Watch the Iceberg Crash Course: https://drmevn.fyi/icebergcourse1024 London Meetup: https://lu.ma/Lakehouselinkups Paris Meetup: https://drmevn.fyi/1120-france-meetup My Calendar of Events: https://lu.ma/Lakehouselinkups2024-11-0500 minCatalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data12 – 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/data2024-10-1100 minCatalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data11 – 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.2024-08-1000 minThinking and Feeling Libertarian with the LoveatarianThe Loveatarian Talks ReparationsThe Loveatarian discusses how to have a healthy nuanced empathetic conversation around reparations. Follow on twitter: @loveatarian2024-08-0300 minThoughts and Opinions of Alex MercedThe Loveatarian Talks ReparationsThe Loveatarian discusses how to have a healthy nuanced empathetic conversation around reparations. Follow on twitter: @loveatarian2024-08-0300 minCatalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source Data10 – Apache Iceberg Table MaintenanceAlex Merced discusses how to maintain Apache Iceberg tables. Find all of Alex’s social links here: https://bio.alexmerced.com/data2024-07-2600 minThoughts and Opinions of Alex MercedThoughts on Deadpool and Wolverine (tldr; SEE IT NOW!)Follow Alex on twitter @alexmerced2024-07-2600 minThoughts and Opinions of Alex MercedCapitalism and Universal Healthcare, Income and EducationAlex 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 @loveatarian2024-07-2100 minThinking and Feeling Libertarian with the LoveatarianCapitalism and Universal Healthcare, Income and EducationAlex 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 @loveatarian2024-07-2100 minEconomics and Finance for N00bs with Alex MercedCapitalism and Universal Healthcare, Income and EducationAlex 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 @loveatarian2024-07-2100 minWeb & Data: Interviews by Alex MercedFREE Apache Iceberg Crash CourseRegister for the Course: https://bit.ly/am-2024-iceberg-live-crash-course-1 Free Copy of Apache Iceberg Book: https://bit.ly/am-iceberg-book My social and blog links: https://bio.alexmerced.com/data2024-07-0900 minWeb Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder PodcastFREE Apache Iceberg Crash CourseRegister for the Course: https://bit.ly/am-2024-iceberg-live-crash-course-1 Free Copy of Apache Iceberg Book: https://bit.ly/am-iceberg-book My social and blog links: https://bio.alexmerced.com/data2024-07-0900 minCatalogs, Manifests and Metadata. Oh My! - A Podcast about Apache Iceberg and the World of Open Source DataFREE Apache Iceberg Crash CourseRegister for the Course: https://bit.ly/am-2024-iceberg-live-crash-course-1 Free Copy of Apache Iceberg Book: https://bit.ly/am-iceberg-book My social and blog links: https://bio.alexmerced.com/data2024-07-0900 minIn The Grand Schema of ThingsFREE Apache Iceberg Crash CourseRegister for the Course: https://bit.ly/am-2024-iceberg-live-crash-course-1 Free Copy of Apache Iceberg Book: https://bit.ly/am-iceberg-book My social and blog links: https://bio.alexmerced.com/data2024-07-0900 minThinking and Feeling Libertarian with the LoveatarianTrump, Criminal Immunity and Civil ImmunityThe Lovatarian discusses the Immunity SCOTUS case. Follow @loveatarian2024-07-0200 minThoughts and Opinions of Alex MercedTrump, Criminal Immunity and Civil ImmunityThe Lovatarian discusses the Immunity SCOTUS case. Follow @loveatarian2024-07-0200 minWeb & Data: Interviews by Alex Merced#5 – Interview with Monica Kay Royal of nerdnourishment.comFollow Monica Below: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monicakay… YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nerdnourishm… Website: https://www.nerdnourishment.com/ LinkedIn Course: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/pro… Follow Alex – https://bio.alexmerced.com2024-06-2600 minThinking and Feeling Libertarian with the Loveatarian#7 – Immigration and LibertarianismThe Loveatarian discusses libertarianism and immigration follow @loveatarian on twitter2024-06-1900 minThoughts and Opinions of Alex MercedBONUS – Trump and a Tariff Based Revenue System?Alex reflects on Trump floating the Idea of funding the government entirely through Tariffs. https://bio.alexmerced.com/opinion2024-06-1400 minThinking and Feeling Libertarian with the LoveatarianBONUS – Trump and a Tariff Based Revenue System?Alex reflects on Trump floating the Idea of funding the government entirely through Tariffs. https://bio.alexmerced.com/opinion2024-06-1400 minEconomics and Finance for N00bs with Alex MercedBONUS – Trump and a Tariff Based Revenue System?Alex reflects on Trump floating the Idea of funding the government entirely through Tariffs. https://bio.alexmerced.com/opinion2024-06-1400 minThinking and Feeling Libertarian with the Loveatarian#6 – Understanding Parents Making Medical DecisionsThe Loveatarian carefully discusses controversial issues around parental decision making and how to understand the issue in a way not to change anyone’s mind but to help people understand each other and have more fruitful conversations. follow: @loveatarian2024-06-0400 minThinking and Feeling Libertarian with the Loveatarian#5 – Individualism, Identity, Identity Politics and Pridethe Loveatarian tries to help understand how people’s identities develop and how this interplays with politics. follow on Twitter @Loveatarian Note in my discussion of how people form their identity I forgot one more avenue. The communities we feel comfortable expressing ourselves in. Once we find somewhere we can say things we couldn’t be elsewhere […]2024-06-0100 minThinking and Feeling Libertarian with the Loveatarian#4 – Understanding the Libertarian Perspective on RegulationsAlex discusses regulations and how libertarians often think about them. follow me on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/loveatarian https://bio.alexmerced.com/opinion2024-05-2800 minThinking and Feeling Libertarian with the Loveatarian#3 – Understanding the Libertarian Perspective on ProhibitionThe Loveatarian talks prohibition and how many issues fall into this discussion. Follow Alex on twitter @loveatarian2024-05-2700 minIn The Grand Schema of Things9 – Data Protection by Design and by DefaultThe “Data Protection by Design and Default ” principle is a critical concept in data compliance, especially under regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe. This principle ensures that data protection safeguards are embedded into the design of data systems and business practices from the outset. In this episode,, Alex discusses the […]2024-05-2300 minEconomics and Finance for N00bs with Alex MercedReflecting on Daily Show Episode about MMT (Modern Monetary Theorybio.AlexMerced.com2024-04-2400 minIn The Grand Schema of Things8 – Thinking Through Data Models for Incremental IngestionAlex 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/data2024-04-1700 min
Dev Rel & Dev Advocacy The Podcast7 – Building Momentum in the Speaking CircuitAlex Merced discusses tips for dev rels and dev advocates to build their public speaking momentum. Follow Alex, find links at AlexMerced.com2024-03-3000 minIn The Grand Schema of Things7 – 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 Production2024-03-2800 minWeb Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast33 – What is DevOps?Alex Merced discusses what is DevOps? Follow Alex on Social: https://bio.alexmerced.com/web2024-03-2800 minWeb & 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 […]2024-03-2500 minWeb & Data: Interviews by Alex MercedAM Coder – Web & Data: Interviews – Episode 4 – Santona Tuli – Head of Data – Upsolver (Podcast)Dremio Links: Apache Iceberg 101 – https://bit.ly/am-iceberg-101Free Iceberg Book – https://bit.ly/am-iceberg-bookBuilding a Lakehouse on Your Laptop – https://bit.ly/am-dremio-lakehouse-laptopGet Started with Dremio – https://bit.ly/get-started-yt-31324 Upsolver Links: Upsolver Website – https://www.upsolver.com/Upsolver Blog – https://www.upsolver.com/blog?nav_bar=blogSantona LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/santona-tuli/2024-03-1300 minEconomics and Finance for N00bs with Alex MercedReflecing 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/opinion2024-02-2800 minThoughts and Opinions of Alex MercedReflecing 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/opinion2024-02-2800 minWeb Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast32 – Understanding Multithreading, Events Loops, Concurrency and ParallelismAlex 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/2024-02-0200 minWeb Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast31 – JS Bundlers (Browserify, Webpack, Rollup, Vite, etc.)Alex Merced discusses JS Bundlers Subscribe on youtube youtube.com/@alexmercedcoder youtube.com/@alexmerceddata bio.alexmerced.com2024-01-2100 minWeb Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder PodcastBonus: New Youtube Channel, State of the Data LakehouseFind all my data resources below:https://bio.alexmerced.com/data Listen to the State of the Data Lakehouse Podcast Here:https://em360tech.com/podcast/dremio-state-data-lakehouse?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=content&utm_campaign=alexmercedcontent&utm_term=iceberg+lakehouse+nessie2024-01-2000 minWeb & Data: Interviews by Alex MercedBonus: New Youtube Channel, State of the Data LakehouseFind all my data resources below:https://bio.alexmerced.com/data Listen to the State of the Data Lakehouse Podcast Here:https://em360tech.com/podcast/dremio-state-data-lakehouse?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=content&utm_campaign=alexmercedcontent&utm_term=iceberg+lakehouse+nessie2024-01-2000 minWeb Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast2024 Preview – Data/Web Contentyoutube.com/@alexmercedcoder youtube.com/@alexmerceddata twitter.com/alexmercedcoder twitter.com/amdatalakehouse2024-01-0900 minWeb & Data: Interviews by Alex Merced2024 Preview – Data/Web Contentyoutube.com/@alexmercedcoder youtube.com/@alexmerceddata twitter.com/alexmercedcoder twitter.com/amdatalakehouse2024-01-0900 minDev Rel & Dev Advocacy The Podcast2024 Preview – Data/Web Contentyoutube.com/@alexmercedcoder youtube.com/@alexmerceddata twitter.com/alexmercedcoder twitter.com/amdatalakehouse2024-01-0900 minWeb & Data: Interviews by Alex Merced03 – Nik Acheson – Dremio – Sr Director, Product Management & StrategyAlex Merced interviews Nik Acheson, who serves as Sr Director, Product Management & Strategy for Dremio, the Data Lakehouse Platform.2024-01-0500 minEconomics and Finance for N00bs with Alex MercedBONUS – 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.2023-12-2900 minThoughts and Opinions of Alex MercedBONUS – 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.2023-12-2900 min
SELECT * FROM data.lake;13 - Game Changer: Dremio's Incremental Reflections and Reflection RecommendationsAlex Merced discusses some of the new innovations at Dremio in particular Reflection Recommendations and Incremental Refreshes that aim to make managing an easy to use data lakehouse at scale so much easier that it already is with Dremio.
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https://bit.ly/am-dremio-lakehouse-laptop2023-12-2010 minThoughts and Opinions of Alex Merced11 – What I would tell a child about beliefsAlex Merced discusses how if he ever had children, how he would present the idea of beliefs to them.2023-12-1000 minEconomics and Finance for N00bs with Alex Merced9 – Milei and the Dollarization of ArgentinaJust thinking out loud about how you could practically pull it off.2023-12-1000 minSELECT * FROM data.lake;12 - Dremio's Columnar Cloud Cache (C3)Alex Merced discusses caching and Dremio's Columnar Cloud Cache feature.
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https://bit.ly/am-dremio-lakehouse-laptop2023-10-3106 minWeb & Data: Interviews by Alex MercedCall for Speakers – Subsurface 2024 (Live in NYC May 2024)Submit your talks here: https://www.dremio.com/subsurface/2023-10-3000 minSELECT * FROM data.lake;11 - Data Reflections Makes Data Virtualization ScaleAlex Merced discusses how Dremio's Data Reflections features make life easier for Data Engineers and Data Analysts.
- Makes it easier for data engineers to optimize performance
- Makes it easier for data analysts to take advantage of those optimizations
In this talk I also discuss how Dremio Reflections succeeds when federating sources (Data Virtualization) over other approaches like Materialized Views and Indexes.
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Try...2023-10-2021 minDev Rel & Dev Advocacy The Podcast6 – The Starlight Docs Framework for Creating Community Knowledge BasesAlex Merced discusses how he’s used the starlight framework to give gifts to the communities he serves:2023-10-2000 minSELECT * FROM data.lake;10 - The Architecture and Potenial of Nessie Catalogs and Transactional Data LakehousesAlex Merced discusses the internals of how Project Nessie catalogs work and the potential they hold to cataloging and managing data lakehouses.
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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 this blog:https://lnkd.in/eDiC8fc6Also try out this video series:https://lnkd.in...2023-08-2308 minDev Rel & Dev Advocacy The Podcast5 – Docker and Dev EducationAlex 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 […]2023-08-2300 minWeb Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast31 – Cross-Origin CookiesAlex Merced talks about cross origin cookies, read his blog on the topic here: https://dev.to/alexmercedcoder/expressjs-handling-cross-origin-cookies-38l92023-08-2300 minSELECT * FROM data.lake;9 - On-Prem Data Lake Modernization and MigrationAlex Merced discusses what is Hadoop and On-Prem data lake, and how Dremio can help data lake modernization and migration efforts.
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https://bit.ly/am-dremio-lakehouse-laptop2023-07-0710 minEconomics and Finance for N00bs with Alex Merced8 – 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 banks2023-07-0700 minSELECT * FROM data.lake;8 - Big Picture on Apache Iceberg Table OptimizationAlex Merced explains the big picture of Apache Iceberg table optimization.
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https://bit.ly/am-dremio-lakehouse-laptop2023-06-1611 minThoughts and Opinions of Alex Merced10 – Politics and DivisionAlex Merced discusses how politics divides society.2023-06-1600 minSELECT * FROM data.lake;7 - Open-Source Nessie CatalogsAlex Merced discusses what is Project Nessie and its role in the world of Apache Iceberg catalogs.
Intro to Data as Code Article/Tutorial
Intro to Nessie with Spark
Intro to Nessie with Jupyter Notebook
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https://bit.ly/am-dremio-lakehouse-laptop2023-05-0817 minDev Rel & Dev Advocacy The Podcast4 – Video & Audio ContentAlex Merced gives advice on video and audio content. Follow Alex at @amdatalakehouse or @alexmercedcoder2023-05-0800 minDev Rel & Dev Advocacy The Podcast3 – Good Media Apps & Generative AIAlex Merced discusses how to use mobile apps and generative AI to be a prolific and effective content creator.2023-04-1200 minDev Rel & Dev Advocacy The PodcastBONUS: 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 -> @amdatalakehouse2023-03-2300 minEconomics and Finance for N00bs with Alex Merced8 – Explaining the Silicon Valley Bank CollapseAlex Merced discusses what happened with Silicon Valley Bank2023-03-1200 min
SELECT * FROM data.lake;3 - What is an Apache Iceberg Catalog?Alex Merced discusses what is an Apache Iceberg catalog.
Links:
- Guide to try out Dremio Arctic in a Jupyter Notebook with Spark locally: https://github.com/developer-advocacy-dremio/quick-guides-from-dremio/blob/main/arcticexercise.md
- Guide to PySpark settings for different catalogs: https://github.com/developer-advocacy-dremio/quick-guides-from-dremio/blob/main/icebergpyspark.md
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https://bit.ly/am-dremio-lakehouse-laptop2023-03-1020 minDev Rel & Dev Advocacy The Podcast2 – Blogging as a Dev Rel or Developer AdvocateAlex Merced discusses thinking through what you are going to write as a developer advocate or dev rel.2023-03-1000 minDev Rel & Dev Advocacy The Podcast1 – What is Dev Rel & Dev Advocacy? Who am I?Alex Merced discusses:2023-02-2300 minSELECT * FROM data.lake;2 - What is a Data Lake Table Format?Alex Merced explains what is a Data Lake table format.
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https://bit.ly/am-dremio-lakehouse-laptop2023-02-2216 minEconomics and Finance for N00bs with Alex Merced7 – The Process of Buying and Home and Mortgage RatesAlex Merced talks about his experience buying a home and knowledge that may be useful for potential home buyers.2023-02-1800 minSELECT * FROM data.lake;1 - Primer on Data Lakes, Data Warehouses and Data LakehousesAlex Merced discusses the story around data lakes, data warehouses and data lakehouses. Give it a listen and make sure to follow your hosts on linkedIn and twitter.
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https://bit.ly/am-dremio-lakehouse-laptop2023-02-1532 minWeb & Data: Interviews by Alex Merced2 – Bob Haffner, Data Engineer and Host of the Engineering Side of DataAlex 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.2023-02-1500 minWeb & Data: Interviews by Alex Merced1 – Joe Keohan – Frontend Developer and Bootcamp InstructorAlex Merced interview Joe Keohan, Frontend developer for Shopify and Bootcamp Instructor for General Assembly2023-02-0100 min
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