Alex Merced Podcasts

Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast

Alex Merced explains Concepts and Ideas relevant development of software and web applications. Find all episodes here: https://host.alexmercedpodcast.com/series/webdev101/Follow Alex on Twitter @alexmercedcoderFind Alex's tutorial blogs and instructional videos at GrokOverflow.com, devNursery.com and AlexMercedCoder.com

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Alex Merced Podcasts

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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

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

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

33 – What is DevOps? 28.03.2024

Alex Merced discusses what is DevOps? Follow Alex on Social: https://bio.alexmerced.com/web

32 – Understanding Multithreading, Events Loops, Concurrency and Parallelism 02.02.2024

Alex Merced talks about breaking down processing into different threads, different cores, and different machines. Follow Alex on Social, all links here https://bio.alexmerced.com/web/

31 – JS Bundlers (Browserify, Webpack, Rollup, Vite, etc.) 21.01.2024

Alex Merced discusses JS Bundlers Subscribe on youtube youtube.com/@alexmercedcoder youtube.com/@alexmerceddata bio.alexmerced.com

Bonus: New Youtube Channel, State of the Data Lakehouse 20.01.2024

Find all my data resources below:https://bio.alexmerced.com/data Listen to the State of the Data Lakehouse Podcast Here:https://em360tech.com/podcast/dremio-state-data-lakehouse?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=content&utm_campaign=alexmercedcontent&utm_term=iceberg+lakehouse+nessie

2024 Preview – Data/Web Content Video 09.01.2024

youtube.com/@alexmercedcoder youtube.com/@alexmerceddata twitter.com/alexmercedcoder twitter.com/amdatalakehouse

Call for Speakers – Subsurface 2024 (Live in NYC May 2024) 30.10.2023

Submit your talks here: https://www.dremio.com/subsurface/

Bonus: docs.devnursery.com 19.10.2023

Quick Update and invitation to come check out docs.devnursery.com

31 – Cross-Origin Cookies 23.08.2023

Alex Merced talks about cross origin cookies, read his blog on the topic here: https://dev.to/alexmercedcoder/expressjs-handling-cross-origin-cookies-38l9

30 – Generative AI for Web Developers 16.06.2023

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