Engineering

Building conversational data work on Iceberg.

Technical notes on Iceberg, Polaris, dbt, agent runtime, lineage, and governance. Written for data leaders and platform engineers evaluating whether the architecture holds.

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EngineeringIn preparation/ T. Yamamoto

Why we built Lanikaia on Iceberg, not on Postgres.

Snapshots, schema evolution, and lineage are the load-bearing primitives of conversational data work. Iceberg gives us all three; relational databases give us none.

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In preparationDesignThe mouse-grey palette, and what color does in a working tool.R. Vance
In preparationEngineeringLineage is the code you wrote, not a graph you reconstruct.T. Yamamoto

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