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Alex Merced - Tech Evangelist@alexmerced@me.dm
Alex Merced is a Developer Advocate for Dremio and host of the Web Dev 101 and Datanation Podcasts.
Alex Merced - Tech Evangelist<p>Video: What are AI Agents, Tools, MCP and open server standards in 4 minutes. </p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/DataEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DataEngineering</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/DataAnalytics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DataAnalytics</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/SoftwareDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SoftwareDevelopment</span></a></p>
Alex Merced - Tech Evangelist<p>BUILDING DATA APPLICATIONS</p><p>There can be a lot of challenges in building data applications when managing multiple data connections, scaling operations between those connections and delivering the data to your Frontend developers with an easy to use API.</p><p>Read this article on how to make life easier: <a href="https://www.dremio.com/blog/building-scalable-data-applications-with-dremio/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dremio.com/blog/building-scala</span><span class="invisible">ble-data-applications-with-dremio/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/SQL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SQL</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/DataAnalytics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DataAnalytics</span></a></p>
Alex Merced - Tech Evangelist<p>New On Dremio Medium - 2025 Comprehensive Guide to Apache Iceberg</p><p>buff.ly/40wn3qG</p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/DataLakehouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DataLakehouse</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/DataEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DataEngineering</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/DataLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DataLake</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/apacheiceberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>apacheiceberg</span></a></p>
Alex Merced - Tech Evangelist<p>New Blog on Table Format Interoperability:</p><p><a href="https://medium.com/data-engineering-with-dremio/when-to-use-apache-xtable-or-delta-lake-uniform-for-data-lakehouse-interoperability-d89b120e2163" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/data-engineering-wi</span><span class="invisible">th-dremio/when-to-use-apache-xtable-or-delta-lake-uniform-for-data-lakehouse-interoperability-d89b120e2163</span></a></p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/dataengineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dataengineering</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/apacheiceberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>apacheiceberg</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/deltalake" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>deltalake</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/apachehudi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>apachehudi</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/datalakehouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>datalakehouse</span></a></p>
Alex Merced - Tech Evangelist<p>New Podcast: 2025, a Data Lakehouse Looking Forward</p><p>Listen here: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/6TEbZLMSUmlf1Dg9V74krM?si=oTTu-j_5QnuL12xmLKkaBQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/episode/6TEbZ</span><span class="invisible">LMSUmlf1Dg9V74krM?si=oTTu-j_5QnuL12xmLKkaBQ</span></a></p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/DataLakehouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DataLakehouse</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/apacheiceberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>apacheiceberg</span></a></p>
Alex Merced - Tech Evangelist<p>With Dremio 25.2, the ability to use Dremio as your Lakehouse's center or bring your existing lakehouse to Dremio for unified self-service analytics has never been better.</p><p>Evaluate Dremio, Read This: <a href="https://drmevn.fyi/evaluatedremio103024" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">drmevn.fyi/evaluatedremio10302</span><span class="invisible">4</span></a></p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/DataEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DataEngineering</span></a></p>
Alex Merced - Tech Evangelist<p>ALL ABOUT PARQUET 1/10</p><p>First newsletter in this series, make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss the next 9 sections of this series.</p><p>Read Here: <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/amdatalakehouse/p/all-about-parquet-part-01-an-introduction?r=h4f8p&utm_medium=ios" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/amdatala</span><span class="invisible">kehouse/p/all-about-parquet-part-01-an-introduction?r=h4f8p&utm_medium=ios</span></a></p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/DataEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DataEngineering</span></a></p>
Alex Merced - Tech Evangelist<p>GITHUB ACTIONS DEEP DIVE</p><p>Read here: <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/amdatalakehouse/p/a-deep-dive-into-github-actions-from?r=h4f8p&utm_medium=ios" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/amdatala</span><span class="invisible">kehouse/p/a-deep-dive-into-github-actions-from?r=h4f8p&utm_medium=ios</span></a></p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/DataEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DataEngineering</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Devops" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Devops</span></a></p>
Alex Merced - Tech Evangelist<p>— Article on Data Lakehouse Trends —</p><p>Give it a read and sub to the substack as I have some fun articles on GitHub actions and Airflow coming out on Monday and Tuesday!</p><p>Read Here: <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/amdatalakehouse/p/data-lakehouse-roundup-1-news-and?r=h4f8p&utm_medium=ios" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/amdatala</span><span class="invisible">kehouse/p/data-lakehouse-roundup-1-news-and?r=h4f8p&utm_medium=ios</span></a></p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/DataEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DataEngineering</span></a></p>
Alex Merced - Tech Evangelist<p>LAKEHOUSE LUNCH EVENT TODAY (1130am est)</p><p>Join me at (Virtual) Lakehouse Lunch - What is the Apache Iceberg REST Catalog? <a href="https://meetu.ps/e/NpNkq/15mg4h/i" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">meetu.ps/e/NpNkq/15mg4h/i</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Alex Merced - Tech Evangelist<p>Know Someone Learning Data Engineering, share this with them:</p><p>Hands-on with Apache Iceberg on Your Laptop: Deep Dive with Apache Spark, Nessie, Minio, Dremio… <a href="https://medium.com/data-engineering-with-dremio/hands-on-with-apache-iceberg-on-your-laptop-deep-dive-with-apache-spark-nessie-minio-dremio-c5d689b01730" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/data-engineering-wi</span><span class="invisible">th-dremio/hands-on-with-apache-iceberg-on-your-laptop-deep-dive-with-apache-spark-nessie-minio-dremio-c5d689b01730</span></a></p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/DataEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DataEngineering</span></a></p>
Alex Merced - Tech Evangelist<p>Updated my popular tutorial so you no longer have to deal with token to access the notebook server making the Python parts of this exercise a little simpler, check it out if you haven’t in the past. The whole exercise can be done locally on your laptop.</p><p>Read Here: <a href="https://buff.ly/3Zs8NjJ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3Zs8NjJ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/DataEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DataEngineering</span></a></p>
Alex Merced - Tech Evangelist<p>REBUILDING ON MEDIUM</p><p>I have to create a new Medium account, so if you enjoyed following my data lakehouse content on medium before follow my new account linked below. Will be republishing many of previous articles over the next week.</p><p><a href="https://alexmercedtech.medium.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">alexmercedtech.medium.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Alex Merced - Tech Evangelist<p>ICEBERG METADATA TABLES</p><p>This article will walk you through a hands-on exercise to get familiar with the Iceberg metadata tables.</p><p>Read here: <a href="https://drmevn.fyi/Icebergmetadatatables917" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">drmevn.fyi/Icebergmetadatatabl</span><span class="invisible">es917</span></a></p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/DataEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DataEngineering</span></a></p>
Alex Merced - Tech Evangelist<p>IN-DEPTH & HANDS ON WITH APACHE ICEBERG</p><p>Read Here: <a href="https://buff.ly/4ekVbem" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/4ekVbem</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/apacheiceberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>apacheiceberg</span></a></p>
Alex Merced - Tech Evangelist<p>Blog - 5 Data Lakehouse Trends<br />Here -> <a href="https://blog.alexmerced.io/posts/2024-9-five-trends-in-data-lakehouse/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.alexmerced.io/posts/2024-</span><span class="invisible">9-five-trends-in-data-lakehouse/</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/datalakehouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>datalakehouse</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/dataengineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dataengineering</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/dataanalytics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dataanalytics</span></a></p>
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