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Updated 05/12/2025

18 May

AI Songs, Suno, The Puerto Rico Song from Saxboy

Alex Merced discusses his thoughts on the Virality of the AI Song, the Puerto Rico Song, the role of AI in music and whether it threatens art.
23/08/2023

43 – Building a Data Lakehouse on your Laptop

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/eDiC8fc6 Also try out this video series:https://lnkd.in/gp843ErM
28/06/2023

40 – Big Announcements for Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake and Apache Hudi from Snowflake and Databricks

Alex Merced discusses some of the big announcements from this weeks conferences. Make sure to checkout Gnarly Data Waves on your favorite podcast app.
26/09/2025

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
08/10/2023

EP34 - Materialized Views and Dremio Reflections

In the world of data acceleration and optimization, both materialized views and Dremio's Data Reflections stand out as pivotal tools. This video aims to demystify these technologies, comparing their benefits, limitations, and unique features. Dive deep into understanding the core differences between materialized views and Dremio's Reflections. Whether you're a seasoned data professional or just starting out, this webinar offers insights to optimize your data strategy. Discover the nuances, best practices, and real-world applications of these powerful tools, and make informed decisions for your data architecture. See all upcoming episodes: https://www.dremio.com/gnarly-data-wa... Connect with us! Twitter: https://bit.ly/30pcpE1 LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/2PoqsDq Facebook: https://bit.ly/2BV881V Community Forum: https://bit.ly/2ELXT0W Github: https://bit.ly/3go4dcM Blog: https://bit.ly/2DgyR9B Questions?: https://bit.ly/30oi8tX Website: https://bit.ly/2XmtEnN#datalakehouse #analytics #datawarehouse #datalake #dataengineers #dataarchitects #governance #infrastructure #dremiocloud #dremiotestdrive #openlakehouse #opendatalakehouse #apacheiceberg #dremioarctic #datamesh #metadata #modernization #datasharing #migration #ETL #datasilos #selfservice #compliance #dataascode #branches #optimized #automates #datamovement #clustering #metrics #filtering #partitioning #tableformat #ApacheArrow #projectnessie #dremiosonar #optimization #automaticdata #scalability #enterprisedata #federated #catalogmigratortool #reflections #ML #versioning #tables #catalog #accelerate #analytics #ELT #dataanalytis #query #real-timeanalytics #datastrategy
03/05/2023

EP15 - Getting Started with Dremio’s Data Lakehouse

As organizations strive to provide value faster to end users, data silos makes it difficult to provide insights on time. Learn how Dremio’s data lakehouse accelerates data delivery and discovery, without copies. In this video, you will get: - The fundamentals of the data lakehouse with Dremio and Apache Iceberg - Proven use cases for unifying data access on the lakehouse - Customer success stories See all upcoming episodes: https://www.dremio.com/gnarly-data-wa... Connect with us! Twitter: https://bit.ly/30pcpE1 LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/2PoqsDq Facebook: https://bit.ly/2BV881V Community Forum: https://bit.ly/2ELXT0W Github: https://bit.ly/3go4dcM Blog: https://bit.ly/2DgyR9B Questions?: https://bit.ly/30oi8tX Website: https://bit.ly/2XmtEnN#datalakehouse #data #analytics #datawarehouse #datalake #dataengineers #dataarchitects #governance #infrastructure #dremiocloud #dremiotestdrive #openlakehouse #opendatalakehouse #gnarlydatawaves #apacheiceberg #dremio #dremioartic #datamesh #metadata #modernization #datasharing #migration #ETL #datasilos #datagrowth #selfservice #compliance #arctic #dataascode #branches #tags #optimized #automates #datamovement #clustering #metrics #filtering #partitioning #sorting #tableformat #metastore #ApacheArrow #nessie #dremioarctic
27/07/2023

EP25 - Building a Data Lakehouse on Azure Data Lake Storage

In the rapidly evolving data landscape, organizations seek to use data assets to drive growth and competitive advantage. The problem is, the rigid warehouse-centric data architecture makes it hard to deliver faster access to data to end users without creating data copies and siloed ETL pipelines. As cloud data lakes grow, the challenge for many organizations will be providing access to that data for exploratory BI and interactive analytics. In this video, you will learn about building a data lakehouse on Azure Data Lake Storage with product leaders from Microsoft and Dremio: - The fundamentals of a data lakehouse architecture on Azure - The need for an open data lakehouse - Unifying data access on ADLS with Dremio - A self-service experience with Dremio and Power BI See all upcoming episodes: https://www.dremio.com/gnarly-data-wa... Connect with us! Twitter: https://bit.ly/30pcpE1 LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/2PoqsDq Facebook: https://bit.ly/2BV881V Community Forum: https://bit.ly/2ELXT0W Github: https://bit.ly/3go4dcM Blog: https://bit.ly/2DgyR9B Questions?: https://bit.ly/30oi8tX Website: https://bit.ly/2XmtEnN#datalakehouse #analytics #datawarehouse #datalake #dataengineers #dataarchitects #governance #infrastructure #dremiocloud #dremiotestdrive #openlakehouse #opendatalakehouse #gnarlydatawaves #apacheiceberg #dremioarctic #datamesh #metadata #modernization #datasharing #migration #ETL #datasilos #selfservice #compliance #dataascode #branches #optimized #automates #datamovement #clustering #metrics #filtering #partitioning #tableformat #ApacheArrow #projectnessie #dremiosonar #optimization #automaticdata #scalability #enterprisedata #federated #catalogmigratortool #reflections #ML #microsoft #azure #dataarchitecture #azuredatalakestorage
29/08/2023

EP29 - Simplify data governance at scale across all your data

As data volumes grow - and more users across your organization want access to data to accelerate business decision-making - managing data governance is more important than ever. What this video in how to simplify data governance for analytics, and deliver data governance at scale with Dremio. You will learn: - Data governance on the data lakehouse - How to balance data access and control to accelerate analytics - What does good data governance look like? - How Dremio supports simplified data governance See all upcoming episodes: https://www.dremio.com/gnarly-data-wa... Connect with us! Twitter: https://bit.ly/30pcpE1 LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/2PoqsDq Facebook: https://bit.ly/2BV881V Community Forum: https://bit.ly/2ELXT0W Github: https://bit.ly/3go4dcM Blog: https://bit.ly/2DgyR9B Questions?: https://bit.ly/30oi8tX Website: https://bit.ly/2XmtEnN#datalakehouse #analytics #datawarehouse #datalake #dataengineers #dataarchitects #governance #infrastructure #dremiocloud #dremiotestdrive #openlakehouse #opendatalakehouse #apacheiceberg #dremioarctic #datamesh #metadata #modernization #datasharing #migration #ETL #datasilos #selfservice #compliance #dataascode #branches #optimized #automates #datamovement #clustering #metrics #filtering #partitioning #tableformat #ApacheArrow #projectnessie #dremiosonar #optimization #automaticdata #scalability #enterprisedata #federated #catalogmigratortool #reflections #ML #versioning #tables #catalog #accelerate #analytics
15/03/2023

EP8 - Managing your data as code with Dremio Arctic

As data lakes become the primary destination for growing volumes of customer and operational data, data teams need tools and processes that ensure data quality and consistency across data consumers and use cases. Join Dremio’s Jeremiah Morrow and Alex Merced as they discuss the emergence of data as code for data management, its benefits for data teams, and how Dremio customers are using it to deliver access to a consistent and accurate view of data in their data lakes. In this video on Gnarly Data Waves - Managing your data as code with Dremio Arctic, you will learn about: - Why data as code is necessary for ensuring consistency and data quality for large data lakes. - How Dremio Arctic uses Git-like concepts such as branches, tags, and commits to make data management easy. - Some high value use cases for data as code. See all upcoming episodes: https://www.dremio.com/gnarly-data-waves/?utm_medium=social-free&utm_source=youtube&utm_term=GDWEP8&utm_content=gdw-OD&utm_campaign=gdw-EP8 Connect with us! Twitter: https://bit.ly/30pcpE1 LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/2PoqsDq Facebook: https://bit.ly/2BV881V Community Forum: https://bit.ly/2ELXT0W Github: https://bit.ly/3go4dcM Blog: https://bit.ly/2DgyR9B Questions?: https://bit.ly/30oi8tX Website: https://bit.ly/2XmtEnN #datalakehouse #analytics #datawarehouse #datalake #opendatalakehouse #gnarlydatawaves #apacheiceberg #dremio #dremioartic #datamesh #metadata #modernization #datasharing #datagovernance #ETL #datasilos #datagrowth #selfservice #compliance #artic #dataascode #branches #tags
23/06/2023

39 – What are Dremio’s Data Reflections and why are they so cool!

Alex Merced explains what are Dremio reflection and how they bring you speed, reduce storage costs, and do so while keeping things easy for your end users. Follow Alex on twitter @amdatalakehouse

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