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20/06/2023

38 – What is a DAG? (Directed Acyclic Graphs)

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12/12/2023

EP39 - How To Build an Iceberg Data Lakehouse with Fivetran and Dremio

Organizations are struggling with the proliferation of toolings in their data infrastructure and the exponential growth of ETL pipelines are slowing down data engineers to deliver value to the business. They want to spend more time making impactful decisions and working on high value projects. Fivetran significantly reduces the amount of time spent in building ETL pipelines with their no-code approach. Dremio is the easy and open data lakehouse, providing self-service analytics with data warehouse functionality and data lake flexibility across all your data. Together, Dremio and Fivetran bring the best solution for enabling organizations to GTM faster. In this video, you will learn: - What Iceberg table format is and why it matters in data lakehouses - How to load source files into Iceberg tables using Fivetran - How to create a unified access layer for your data with Dremio Cloud See all upcoming episodes and past episodes: https://www.dremio.com/gnarly-data-wa... Connect with us! 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 Resource: https://www.dremio.com/resources/?utm... Events: https://www.dremio.com/events/?utm_me...#datalakehouse #analytics #datawarehouse #datalake #dataengineers #dataarchitects #governance #dremiocloud #dremiotestdrive #opendatalakehouse #apacheiceberg #selfservice #enterprisedata #multi-tables #analytics #dataanalytis #tableformat #cloud #cli #api #ETL #BI #fivetran #hadoop #AI #ML #genai #llm #datapipelines #datamovement #automation #scale #saas #cdc #governance #security #nodatacopies #dataanalytics #pii #reflection #timetravel #parquet #workday #oracle #postgres #aws #s3
22/08/2023

EP28 - Apache Iceberg Office Hours

Watch the Dremio developer advocacy and engineering teams for an installment of Apache Iceberg Office Hours. During this time we’ll have a brief Iceberg presentation on table format interoperability, going over the table format migration options, converters, and newer interoperability solutions like onetable and uniform. We’ll go through the capabilities, limitations, and considerations and then have lots of dedicated time for Q&A on the presented topic or any other questions or guidance you’re looking for help on in learning about Apache Iceberg or architecting your data lakehouse around Apache Iceberg. We will cover topics: - Format Interop - Using Lakehouse Engines to Unite Table Formats - Using Onehouse's Onetable Technology - Using Delta Lake 3.0 UniFormat - Consideration - Consistency - Consideration - Vendor Agnosticism - Consideration - Flexibility Examples of questions you can ask: How can I optimize my Iceberg tables for my different use cases? What tools will best handle my ETL job to write to Iceberg? How can I control access to my Iceberg tables? How can I convert data from X into an Iceberg table? How can I get started with Iceberg in Databricks? 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 #officehours #Deltalake #Onehouse #Onetable #vendoragnosticism #flexibility #consistency
07/06/2023

EP20 - What's New in the Apache Iceberg Project: Updates, PyIceberg, Compute Engines

The Apache Iceberg project has made tremendous strides, evolving on various fronts such as usage, ecosystem adoption, community growth, and capabilities. In the past few months, the project has introduced many exciting new features and performance improvements around the core library, compute engines and standalone libraries (such as PyIceberg) that makes this lakehouse technology robust & valuable for organizations. In this video of Gnarly Data Waves, we will go over some of the notable new capabilities of Apache Iceberg. Specifically, we will discuss about: - Version 1.2.0 release - Features such as : Branching/Tagging, New write-distribution-mode, Change Data Capture, Catalog Migrator Tool, Delta to Iceberg migration - PyIceberg (What’s happening in the Python library) - Compute Engine-specific features: Dremio, Apache Spark, Flink 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 #dremioarctic #datamesh #metadata #modernization #datasharing #migration #ETL #datasilos #selfservice #compliance #dataascode #branches #optimized #automates #datamovement #clustering #metrics #filtering #partitioning #tableformat #ApacheArrow #nessie #sonar #dremiosonar #optimization #automaticdata #scalability #enterprisedata #federated #catalogmigratortool # pylceberg #apachespark #flink #changedatacapture
31/01/2024

EP44 - How S&P Global is Building an Azure Data Lakehouse with Dremio

S&P Global is a leading global financial services company headquartered in New York. It provides credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics, and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity, and automotive markets. As a company, data is an essential asset across all of S&P Global’s solutions offerings. Watch Tian de Klerk, Director of Business Intelligence, as he shares how they built a data lakehouse for FinOps analysis with Dremio Cloud on Microsoft Azure. Tian will share about: - The hidden costs of extracting operational data into BI cubes - Simplifying traditional data engineering processes with Dremio’s zero-ETL lakehouse - How Dremio’s semantic layer and query acceleration make self-service analytics easy for end users
05/09/2025

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
06/04/2025

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
15/02/2023

1 - Primer on Data Lakes, Data Warehouses and Data Lakehouses

Alex 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. Alex Merced - @amdatalakehouse Get Started with Dremio for Free Today: https://bit.ly/am-dremio-get-started-podcasts Try Out Dremio/Apache Iceberg on your Laptop: https://bit.ly/am-dremio-lakehouse-laptop
22/02/2023

2 - What is a Data Lake Table Format?

Alex Merced explains what is a Data Lake table format. Register for the Subsurface Live! Conference dremio.com/subsurface Get Started with Dremio for Free Today: https://bit.ly/am-dremio-get-started-podcasts Try Out Dremio/Apache Iceberg on your Laptop: https://bit.ly/am-dremio-lakehouse-laptop
27/05/2025

Data News: DuckLake, Confluent’s TableFlow, New Book!

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