Writing
Articles, newsletters, and posts from Fivetran, Dremio, Tobiko Data, Medium, Substack, and more.
Featured in
Topic Hub
Open Data Infrastructure
A curated starting point for my writing on open standards, lakehouse architecture, AI-ready data systems, interoperability, and data ownership.
Newsletters
Open Data + AI
Data + AI + Industry Insights. Deep dives into the latest trends in data engineering, AI systems, and open source technology.
Subscribe on Substack →
Your Daily Data
Your data news and insights to help you succeed as a data professional. Published weekly on LinkedIn. 30,000+ subscribers.
Subscribe on LinkedIn →Blog Posts
LinkedIn
The Architecture of Agents: Building Open Data Infrastructure Today for the AI Factory of Tomorrow
Mar 19, 2026
Read on LinkedIn →
Substack
The AI Survival Guide - Why Open Data Infrastructure Is No Longer Optional
Mar 18, 2026
Read on Substack →
Fivetran
Governing Your Lakehouse with Fivetran Managed Data Lake Service
Mar 16, 2026
Read on Fivetran →
LinkedIn
Did Context Windows Just Kill RAG?
Mar 11, 2026
Read on LinkedIn →
Substack
Apache Iceberg v4 - What It Means for Your AI Data Stack
Mar 10, 2026
Read on Substack →
LinkedIn
Storing Data History Without Regretting It
Mar 9, 2026
Read on LinkedIn →
Substack
Open Data Infrastructure - To Infinity and Beyond!
Feb 28, 2026
Read on Substack →
LinkedIn
When Data Is Your Advantage, Vendors Hold It Hostage
Feb 26, 2026
Read on LinkedIn →
Substack
Iceberg File Format API Release
Feb 24, 2026
Read on Substack →
Substack
Apache DataFusion: A Data Engineer’s Guide to the Query Engine Reshaping How We Build Data Systems
Feb 23, 2026
Read on Substack →
Fivetran
The Impact of Apache Polaris Graduating to Top-Level Apache Project
Feb 19, 2026
Read on Fivetran →
Medium
ODBC and JDBC: Row-Oriented Relics and the Rise of ADBC
Feb 17, 2026
Read on Medium →
LinkedIn
ICYMI - WTF is ADBC?
Feb 17, 2026
Read on LinkedIn →
LinkedIn
Principles of Testing Quality in Data Pipelines
Feb 14, 2026
Read on LinkedIn →
Medium
The Four Pillars of AI Systems and the Data They Need
Feb 12, 2026
Read on Medium →
LinkedIn
The Four Pillars of AI Systems
Feb 12, 2026
Read on LinkedIn →
LinkedIn
AI and the Rise of the Transactional Lakehouse
Feb 11, 2026
Read on LinkedIn →
LinkedIn
The Interoperability Tax — The Challenge of Building For Everyone
Feb 10, 2026
Read on LinkedIn →
LinkedIn
Lance vs Vortex — What Data Engineers Need To Know
Jan 28, 2026
Read on LinkedIn →
Medium
Lance vs Vortex: What Data Engineers Need to Know
Jan 21, 2026
Read on Medium →
Medium
Is Apache Iceberg Melting?
Jan 20, 2026
Read on Medium →
LinkedIn
Is Apache Iceberg Melting?
Jan 18, 2026
Read on LinkedIn →
LinkedIn
Apache Polaris 1.3.0: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
Jan 14, 2026
Read on LinkedIn →
LinkedIn
Bringing Vector Search into Lakehouse Catalogs: Lance Meets Apache Polaris
Jan 10, 2026
Read on LinkedIn →
LinkedIn
Data Modeling Commandments: 10 Rules Every Data Engineer Must Follow
Jan 7, 2026
Read on LinkedIn →
LinkedIn
Apache Iceberg — Scaling Petabytes & People
Dec 18, 2025
Read on LinkedIn →
LinkedIn
Monthly Merge Report — November 2025
Dec 15, 2025
Read on LinkedIn →
Fivetran
Data Pipeline State Management: An Underappreciated Challenge
Dec 10, 2025
Read on Fivetran →
Fivetran
Monthly Merge Report for OSS Projects: November 2025
Nov 28, 2025
Read on Fivetran →
LinkedIn
Lakehouse Table Format Comparison (November 2025)
Nov 18, 2025
Read on LinkedIn →
Fivetran
Getting Started with Apache Polaris Catalog in Fivetran's Managed Data Lake Service
Nov 12, 2025
Read on Fivetran →
LinkedIn
How Apache Iceberg Delivers ACID Transactions on Data Lakes
Nov 10, 2025
Read on LinkedIn →
LinkedIn
Monthly Merge Report — October 2025
Nov 5, 2025
Read on LinkedIn →
Fivetran
Introducing Fivetran Init: Accelerate Custom Connector Development
Oct 22, 2025
Read on Fivetran →
LinkedIn
Apache Polaris 1.2.0 Release — What You Need To Know!
Oct 18, 2025
Read on LinkedIn →
LinkedIn
Build a Free Data Lakehouse with Fivetran, S3, Apache Iceberg, and DuckDB
Oct 10, 2025
Read on LinkedIn →
Fivetran
Get Started with Iceberg Without the Brain Freeze
Oct 8, 2025
Read on Fivetran →
Tobiko Data
Monthly Merge Report — September 2025
Sep 30, 2025
Read on Tobiko Data →
Tobiko Data
Monthly Merge Report — August 2025
Aug 31, 2025
Read on Tobiko Data →
Tobiko Data
Open Source AI with Spice + SQLMesh
Aug 18, 2025
Read on Tobiko Data →
LinkedIn
Data Modeling vs Data Transformation
Aug 18, 2025
Read on LinkedIn →
LinkedIn
SQLMesh + SPICE.AI OSS for AI-Ready Data
Aug 12, 2025
Read on LinkedIn →
Tobiko Data
Shipped: Dev-Only VDE Mode
Aug 5, 2025
Read on Tobiko Data →
LinkedIn
Build an Open Lakehouse on Your Laptop with DuckLake + SQLMesh
Aug 5, 2025
Read on LinkedIn →
Tobiko Data
K-means Clustering with SQLMesh Python Models
Jul 22, 2025
Read on Tobiko Data →
Tobiko Data
DuckLake + SQLMesh Tutorial: Build a Modern Data Lakehouse on Your Laptop
Jul 14, 2025
Read on Tobiko Data →
Tobiko Data
Monthly Merge Report — July 2025
Jul 1, 2025
Read on Tobiko Data →
Tobiko Data
SQLMesh FLOW Mode: Onboarding Reimagined
Jun 18, 2025
Read on Tobiko Data →
LinkedIn
SQLMesh — The Key to Your AI Strategy
Jun 18, 2025
Read on LinkedIn →
Tobiko Data
SQLMesh Delivers 22x Faster Data Transformation and 10x Cost Savings vs dbt Core on Snowflake
Jun 4, 2025
Read on Tobiko Data →
Medium
Hands-On SQLMesh Using the VS Code Extension
May 31, 2025
Read on Medium →
Tobiko Data
SQLMESH PLAN --EXPLAIN: Understand Your Changes Before They Happen
May 20, 2025
Read on Tobiko Data →
LinkedIn
DuckLake vs Apache Iceberg: Which One Is Right For You?
May 20, 2025
Read on LinkedIn →
Medium
SQLMesh Sushi — An End-to-End Pipeline Tutorial
May 17, 2025
Read on Medium →
Medium
Managing Temporal Change in Data Pipelines
May 16, 2025
Read on Medium →
LinkedIn
Hands-On SQLMesh Using The VS Code Extension
May 15, 2025
Read on LinkedIn →
Medium
The Evolution of Data Pipelines: From ETL to ELT and Beyond!
May 13, 2025
Read on Medium →
Medium
End-to-End Tutorial: Integrating SQLMesh with DLT
May 12, 2025
Read on Medium →
LinkedIn
SQLMesh Sushi Hands-On Tutorial — From Setup to Running Your First Pipeline
May 10, 2025
Read on LinkedIn →
Tobiko Data
Is dbt Fusion the Death of dbt Core?
May 6, 2025
Read on Tobiko Data →
Medium
Versioning Data Transformations with SQLMesh: Trust, Speed, and Control
Apr 25, 2025
Read on Medium →
Tobiko Data
A Perspective on Speed and State
Apr 22, 2025
Read on Tobiko Data →
Medium
End-to-End Data Engineering Project with DuckDB + SQLMesh
Apr 19, 2025
Read on Medium →
Medium
Data Modeling: A Guide for Data Analysts
Apr 19, 2025
Read on Medium →
Medium
Idempotent Data Pipelines with Spark and SQLMesh
Apr 19, 2025
Read on Medium →
Medium
Backfilling Data Pipelines: Concepts, Examples, and Best Practices
Apr 19, 2025
Read on Medium →
Medium
SQLMesh Incremental Modeling with DuckDB: A Hands-On Tutorial
Apr 19, 2025
Read on Medium →
Tobiko Data
Expanding Apache Airflow with Tobiko Cloud
Apr 8, 2025
Read on Tobiko Data →
Tobiko Data
SQLMesh Model Blueprinting in Practice: A Hospital Network Example
Mar 25, 2025
Read on Tobiko Data →
Dremio
Key Takeaways from the 2025 State of the Data Lakehouse Report
Mar 10, 2025
Read on Dremio →
Medium
Storytelling with Power — What Data Engineers Can Learn from D&D
Mar 8, 2025
Read on Medium →
Medium
“Data Mesh” or “Data Mess”?
Feb 24, 2025
Read on Medium →
Dremio
The Evolution of the Modern Data Team
Feb 24, 2025
Read on Dremio →
Medium
Enterprise Data Catalogs and Technical Metadata Catalogs: A Practical Guide
Feb 23, 2025
Read on Medium →
Medium
The Evolution of Data Storage
Feb 20, 2025
Read on Medium →
Medium
A/B Tests for Data Analysts
Feb 18, 2025
Read on Medium →
Medium
2025 AI Insights Report — What You Need to Know
Feb 17, 2025
Read on Medium →
Medium
The Future of Data Careers: Skills You Need to Succeed in 2025
Feb 17, 2025
Read on Medium →
Medium
Your Dashboard Sucks — And How to Fix It
Feb 15, 2025
Read on Medium →
Medium
Your SQL Performance Sucks — And How to Fix It
Feb 13, 2025
Read on Medium →
Medium
The Evolution of Data Processing: From ETL to ELT
Feb 12, 2025
Read on Medium →
Dremio
Understanding Data Mesh and Data Fabric: A Guide for Data Leaders
Feb 10, 2025
Read on Dremio →
Dremio
Simplifying Data Discovery with the Dremio Connector for Alation
Jan 27, 2025
Read on Dremio →
Dremio
Understanding Dremio's Architecture: A Game-Changing Approach to Data Lakes and Self-Service Analytics
Jan 13, 2025
Read on Dremio →
Dremio
Why Your Data Strategy Needs Data Products
Dec 18, 2024
Read on Dremio →
Dremio
Dremio and Monte Carlo — Enhanced Data Reliability for Your Data Lakehouse
Dec 4, 2024
Read on Dremio →
Dremio
A Data Analyst's Guide to JDBC, ODBC, REST, and Arrow Flight
Nov 20, 2024
Read on Dremio →
Dremio
Lakehouse Architecture for Unified Analytics — A Data Analyst's Guide
Nov 6, 2024
Read on Dremio →
Dremio
Unified Semantic Layer: A Modern Solution for Self-Service Analytics
Oct 23, 2024
Read on Dremio →
Dremio
Dremio vs. Denodo — A Comparison
Oct 9, 2024
Read on Dremio →No posts match your search.