Alex Merced Podcasts

In The Grand Schema of Things

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 innovati...

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Jun 30, 2026

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Episodes

AI & ART, New Books, AI Harness Production 30.06.2026

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AI Songs, Suno, The Puerto Rico Song from Saxboy 18.05.2026

Alex Merced discusses his thoughts on the Virality of the AI Song, the Puerto Rico Song, the role of AI in music and whether it threatens art.

AI Updates, Lakehouse Streaming (Iceberg/Fluss), and more! 19.04.2026

Alex Merced as always discusses his thoughts on news in the tech world including AI updates and streaming to data lakehouses. Follow Alex on Social: alexmerced.com

Understanding AI Agent Skills, MCP and Custom GPTs/Gems 27.01.2026

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 Follow Alex at AlexMerced.com

Embracing AI Disruption and AI Tooling 16.01.2026

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 further you can now run with AI. Follow Alex on Social: AlexMerced.com The Data Lakehouse Community: https://www.datalakehousehub.com

More Thoughts on the State of AI Software Development 02.01.2026

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 23.12.2025

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 PangolinCatalog.org

Why do Semantic Layers matter so much? 25.11.2025

Try the Dremio Free trial at Dremio.com/get-started Follow Alex at AlexMerced.com

Gaming Handheld Buying Guide and New Lakehouse Free Trial 18.11.2025

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, here is some websites of the main handheld manufacturers. Retroid: https://www.goretroid.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqmsw4dUCa7w0oODoE05TqOlQzhw8vfewFMVqVKnmF-1iL9pIt3 Anbernic: https://anbernic.com/ Konkr: ht...

Lakehouse Catalogs Beyond Apache Iceberg, What could they Look Like? 17.10.2025

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 26.09.2025

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. https://www.manning.com/books/architecting-an-apache-iceberg-lakehouse Follow Alex on Social at AlexMerced.com

Enabling and Optimizing Agentic AI: Access, Performance and the Semantic Layer 05.09.2025

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 resources at AlexMerced.com

Why Apache Polaris will Become the Industry Standard Data Lakehouse Catalog 30.06.2025

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 Lakehouse Hub to discuss the podcast: https://join.slack.com/t/thedatalakehousehub/shared_invite/zt-274yc8sza-mI2zhCW8LGkOh1uxuf8T5Q

Data News: Snowflake/Databricks Announcements, Iceberg V3 11.06.2025

Alex 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

Data News: DuckLake, Confluent’s TableFlow, New Book! 27.05.2025

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) 06.04.2025

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

Will Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake Merge? 21.02.2025

Alex Merced discusses the idea of whether Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake could merge. Follow my blog: https://medium.alexmerced.blog

2025, Data Lakehouse Looking Forward 30.12.2024

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: https://bsky.app/profile/alextalksdatalakehouses.fyi Alex on Twitter: https://x.com/AMdatalakehouse Alex on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexmerced/

BONUS: Data Lakehouse Crash Course (Polaris, Nessie, Unity, Gravitino, Lakekeeper and more!) 05.11.2024

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: https://drmevn.fyi/1120-france-meetup My Calendar of Events: https://lu.ma/Lakehouselinkups

FREE Apache Iceberg Crash Course 09.07.2024

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

9 – Data Protection by Design and by Default 23.05.2024

The “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 […]

8 – Thinking Through Data Models for Incremental Ingestion 17.04.2024

Alex 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.alex...

7 – How do you model graph data? 28.03.2024

Alex Merced discusses Graph Data and How you model it. Build a Data Lakehouse on Your Laptop Deploy Deploy into Production

#1 – intro to catalogs, manifests and metadata. Oh my! 25.03.2024

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 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 […]

6 – An Overview of what is Data Vault Modeling 21.02.2024

Alex Merced discusses what is Data Vault Modeling.

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