Web & Data: Interviews by Alex Merced

Understanding AI Agent Skills, MCP and Custom GPTs/Gems

Alex Merced discusses the differences between different ways of customizing agent behavior and when to use which. – Agent Skills– Model Context Protocol (MCP)– Claude Projects/Custom GPTs/Gemini Gems…

Embracing AI Disruption and AI Tooling

Alex Merced talks about how his optimism about the Agentic AI tool and poses the question, if people can run as fast as they could before AI, instead of resenting them for it, ask yourself how much…

More Thoughts on the State of AI Software Development

Alex Merced discusses more about his experience with the Google Anitgravity IDE Follow Alex Merced at AlexMerced.com

2025 Reflections, Google Antigravity, NotebookLM, Dremio AI Agent, Pangolin Catalog, Dremioframe & Iceframe Python Libraries for Apache Iceberg

Alex Merced (AlexMerced.com) discusses:– his thoughts on thriving in 2026– His use of Google’s Antigravity– His use of NotebookLM– Dremio’s AI tools (dremio.com)– More Check out Pangolin Catalog at…

Why do Semantic Layers matter so much?

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Gaming Handheld Buying Guide and New Lakehouse Free Trial

Guide to the Dremio Free Trial: https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/comprehensive-hands-on-walk-through?r=h4f8p In this episode I make som suggestions on great handhelds you can buy for christmas,…

Lakehouse Catalogs Beyond Apache Iceberg, What could they Look Like?

Alex Merced discusses different paths to a Universal Lakehouse Catalog standard and their pros and cons. Find links to books, social and more at AlexMerced.com

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.…

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…

Why Apache Polaris will Become the Industry Standard Data Lakehouse Catalog

Past is Prologue. Alex Merced discusses lessons from the table format wars that can help predict the outcome of the catalog wars. Follow Alex at AlexMerced.com Join the #amtech channel on the Data…

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

Go to the DataLakehouseHub.com and join my Slack Community Download Free Iceberg Book: https://drmevn.fyi/podcast52725iceberg Download Free Polaris Book: https://drmevn.fyi/podcast52725Polaris

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

Ray Riga – A Lakehouse on Your Laptop

2025, Data Lakehouse Looking Forward

Alex Merced discusses what he looks forward to in 2025 in the Data Lakehouse Space. Alex Merced Event Listings: https://lu.ma/LakehouselinkupsAlex on Bluesky:…

BONUS: Data Lakehouse Crash Course (Polaris, Nessie, Unity, Gravitino, Lakekeeper and more!)

Register for the catalog Course: https://drmevn.fyi/catalogcourse1024 Watch the Iceberg Crash Course: https://drmevn.fyi/icebergcourse1024 London Meetup: https://lu.ma/Lakehouselinkups Paris Meetup:…

FREE Apache Iceberg Crash Course

Register for the Course: https://bit.ly/am-2024-iceberg-live-crash-course-1 Free Copy of Apache Iceberg Book: https://bit.ly/am-iceberg-book My social and blog links: https://bio.alexmerced.com/data

#5 – Interview with Monica Kay Royal of nerdnourishment.com

Follow Monica Below: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monicakay… YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nerdnourishm… Website: https://www.nerdnourishment.com/ LinkedIn Course:…

#1 – intro to catalogs, manifests and metadata. Oh my!

In this episode, Alex Merced introduces his new podcast “Catalogs, Manifests, and Metadata. Oh my!” covering open-source data projects like Apache Iceberg and others. Make sure to subscribe, this…

AM Coder – Web & Data: Interviews – Episode 4 – Santona Tuli – Head of Data – Upsolver (Podcast)

Dremio Links: Apache Iceberg 101 – https://bit.ly/am-iceberg-101Free Iceberg Book – https://bit.ly/am-iceberg-bookBuilding a Lakehouse on Your Laptop – https://bit.ly/am-dremio-lakehouse-laptopGet…

Bonus: New Youtube Channel, State of the Data Lakehouse

Find all my data resources below:https://bio.alexmerced.com/data Listen to the State of the Data Lakehouse Podcast…