Alex Merced

Developer and Owner of devNursery.com

2024-10-30

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.

Evaluate Dremio, Read This: drmevn.fyi/evaluatedremio10302

#DataEngineering

2024-10-23

ALL ABOUT PARQUET 1/10

First newsletter in this series, make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss the next 9 sections of this series.

Read Here: open.substack.com/pub/amdatala

#DataEngineering

2024-09-25

LAKEHOUSE LUNCH EVENT TODAY (1130am est)

Join me at (Virtual) Lakehouse Lunch - What is the Apache Iceberg REST Catalog? meetu.ps/e/NpNkq/15mg4h/i

2024-09-21

Know Someone Learning Data Engineering, share this with them:

Hands-on with Apache Iceberg on Your Laptop: Deep Dive with Apache Spark, Nessie, Minio, Dremio… medium.com/data-engineering-wi

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2024-09-20

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.

Read Here: buff.ly/3Zs8NjJ

#DataEngineering

2024-09-17

ICEBERG METADATA TABLES

This article will walk you through a hands-on exercise to get familiar with the Iceberg metadata tables.

Read here: drmevn.fyi/Icebergmetadatatabl

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2024-09-13

IN-DEPTH & HANDS ON WITH APACHE ICEBERG

Read Here: buff.ly/4ekVbem

#ApacheIceberg

2023-07-07

Twitter: @amdatalakehouse/@alexmercedcoder
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2023-02-21
2022-12-06

In this video I do a custom RPC API implementation to demonstrate a deeper understanding of what is RPC.

youtu.be/pqxIlygAo0g #100DaysOfCode

2022-12-03

So what do I do for leisure on a Saturday morning... write a lightweight javascript RPC framework. Was there a need for one? Not really, but it was fun to see if I could.

The links are below, essentially it's an RPC framework that borrows heavily from the redux API. So you use a dispatch function from the client but it calls sever side code.

Server Library: lnkd.in/eqhgcder

Client Library: lnkd.in/eFYShpKM

2022-11-19

Reminder, if you want to learn more about Apache Iceberg I have loads of resources plus a video series all curated in this article.

-> dremio.com/subsurface/apache-i

#BigData #DataLake #DataLakehouse

2021-11-07

Here I am on indieWeb, look forward to connecting and federating!!!

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