In The Grand Schema of Things
By: Alex Merced Podcasts
Language: en-US
Categories: Technology, Business, Management, Science, Mathematics
Welcome to "In The Grand Schema of Things," the podcast where your host, Alex Merced, takes you on an exhilarating journey through the captivating world of Data Tech History and Concepts. Join us as we unravel the mysteries of data technology, explore its fascinating past, and delve into the cutting-edge concepts shaping our data-driven future. In each episode, Alex Merced, a seasoned data enthusiast and technology historian, brings his passion and expertise to the forefront. He shares captivating stories from the annals of data tech history, highlighting pivotal moments, trailblazing innovations, and the brilliant minds behind them. From the invention...
Episodes
More Thoughts on the State of AI Software Development
Jan 02, 2026Alex Merced discusses more about his experience with the Google Anitgravity IDE Follow Alex Merced at AlexMerced.com
Duration: 00:24:162025 Reflections, Google Antigravity, NotebookLM, Dremio AI Agent, Pangolin Catalog, Dremioframe & Iceframe Python Libraries for Apache Iceberg
Dec 23, 2025Alex 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 PangolinCatalog.org
Duration: 00:19:00Why do Semantic Layers matter so much?
Nov 25, 2025Try the Dremio Free trial at Dremio.com/get-started Follow Alex at AlexMerced.com
Duration: 00:00:00Gaming Handheld Buying Guide and New Lakehouse Free Trial
Nov 18, 2025Guide 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, here is some websites of the main handheld manufacturers. Retroid: https://www.goretroid.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqmsw4dUCa7w0oODoE05TqOlQzhw8vfewFMVqVKnmF-1iL9pIt3 Anbernic: https://anbernic.com/ Konkr: https://www.ayaneo.com/product/KONKR-Pocket-FIT Mangmi: https://mangmi.com/products/mangmi-air-x XU Retro: https://www.xuretro.com/collections/frontpage Powkiddy: https://powkiddy.com/?srsltid=AfmBOorEoT89yJBBHoB2Ec0cGbfbhTZJUeOr98CnO8djuNacvOrurkR5 Trimui: https://trimui.net/?srsltid=AfmBOooJEXt2RFMBlAVNOgOC2yd9kbECIUBofoZYG4AG4...
Duration: 00:00:00Lakehouse Catalogs Beyond Apache Iceberg, What could they Look Like?
Oct 17, 2025Alex 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
Duration: 00:00:00Understanding the role of MCP, Langchain and Agent2Agent
Sep 26, 2025Alex 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. https://www.manning.com/books/architecting-an-apache-iceberg-lakehouse Follow Alex on Social at AlexMerced.com
Duration: 00:00:00Enabling and Optimizing Agentic AI: Access, Performance and the Semantic Layer
Sep 05, 2025Alex 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
Duration: 00:00:00Why Apache Polaris will Become the Industry Standard Data Lakehouse Catalog
Jun 30, 2025Past 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 Lakehouse Hub to discuss the podcast: https://join.slack.com/t/thedatalakehousehub/shared_invite/zt-274yc8sza-mI2zhCW8LGkOh1uxuf8T5Q
Duration: 00:00:00Data News: Snowflake/Databricks Announcements, Iceberg V3
Jun 11, 2025Alex Merced talks about the annoucement at Snowflake and Databricks respective conferences in particular when it comes to the lakehouse. Follow Alex: https://www.alexmerced.com/data
Duration: 00:00:00Data News: DuckLake, Confluent’s TableFlow, New Book!
May 27, 2025Go 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
Duration: 00:00:00Bonus – What is MCP? (Model Context Protocol – Modern AI 101)
Apr 06, 2025Alex Merced discusses modern AI and the new MCP standard and what it means. Follow Alex’s Blogs on and on Social at AlexMerced.com
Duration: 00:00:00Will Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake Merge?
Feb 21, 2025Alex Merced discusses the idea of whether Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake could merge. Follow my blog: https://medium.alexmerced.blog
Duration: 00:00:002025, Data Lakehouse Looking Forward
Dec 30, 2024Alex Merced discusses what he looks forward to in 2025 in the Data Lakehouse Space. Alex Merced Event Listings: https://lu.ma/LakehouselinkupsAlex on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/alextalksdatalakehouses.fyi Alex on Twitter: https://x.com/AMdatalakehouse Alex on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexmerced/
Duration: 00:00:00BONUS: Data Lakehouse Crash Course (Polaris, Nessie, Unity, Gravitino, Lakekeeper and more!)
Nov 05, 2024Register 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: https://drmevn.fyi/1120-france-meetup My Calendar of Events: https://lu.ma/Lakehouselinkups
Duration: 00:00:00FREE Apache Iceberg Crash Course
Jul 09, 2024Register 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
Duration: 00:00:009 – Data Protection by Design and by Default
May 23, 2024The “Data Protection by Design and Default ” principle is a critical concept in data compliance, especially under regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe. This principle ensures that data protection safeguards are embedded into the design of data systems and business practices from the outset. In this episode,, Alex discusses the […]
Duration: 00:00:008 – Thinking Through Data Models for Incremental Ingestion
Apr 17, 2024Alex Merced talks about how different modeling approaches can have different implications for doing incremental ingestion into analytics systems. Hands-On Lakehouse Laptop Exercises:– MongoDB with Dremio: https://bit.ly/am-mongodb-dashboard– SQLServer with Dremio: https://bit.ly/am-sqlserver-dashboard– Postgres with Dremio: https://bit.ly/am-postgres-to-dashboard https://bio.alexmerced.com/data
Duration: 00:00:007 – How do you model graph data?
Mar 28, 2024Alex Merced discusses Graph Data and How you model it. Build a Data Lakehouse on Your Laptop Deploy Deploy into Production
Duration: 00:00:00#1 – intro to catalogs, manifests and metadata. Oh my!
Mar 25, 2024In 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 podcast will be showing up in podcast directories over the next week or so of the publishing of this episode. Follow Alex Merced, find all links […]
Duration: 00:00:006 – An Overview of what is Data Vault Modeling
Feb 21, 2024Alex Merced discusses what is Data Vault Modeling.
Duration: 00:00:005 – Understanding Data Mesh
Feb 02, 2024Alex Merced discusses what is data mesh Follow Alex Merced, Links are all here:https://bio.alexmerced.com/data Read Alex’s recent blogs at dremio.com/blog
Duration: 00:00:004 – Inmon & Kimball Warehouse Modeling
Jan 21, 2024Alex Merced talks about the high-level differences between mainline approaches to modeling a data warehouse. Social Links: bio.alexmerced.com/data Youtube: youtube.com/@alexmerceddata
Duration: 00:00:002024 Preview – Data/Web Content
Jan 09, 2024youtube.com/@alexmercedcoder youtube.com/@alexmerceddata twitter.com/alexmercedcoder twitter.com/amdatalakehouse
Duration: 00:00:003 – Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD)
Dec 20, 2023Alex Merced discusses the data modeling concept of Slowly Changing Dimension and goes over SCD types 1-6
Duration: 00:00:002 – Data Modeling vs Data Management
Oct 31, 2023Alex Merced discusses what is the difference between Data Management and Data Modeling and why they both matter.
Duration: 00:00:00Call for Speakers – Subsurface 2024 (Live in NYC May 2024)
Oct 30, 2023Submit your talks here: https://www.dremio.com/subsurface/
Duration: 00:00:001 – Data Look Back: From On-Prem Data Warehouses to Zero-ETL Data Lakehouses
Oct 19, 2023Alex Merced goes through the history of data talking about how tools and platforms have evolved up today’s cutting edge architectural patterns.
Duration: 00:00:00