Where the rest of it is
Writing, video, and the wider network
This site is the compact version of an argument I have been making in longer form for a while. Here is where the longer form lives, along with the neighbouring sites that go deeper on each half of it.
Articles
Ordered the way this site presents the subject: what agentic analytics is, then the semantics and governance it depends on, then the architecture underneath.
- Definition What Is Agentic Analytics? The definition, and what separates an agent answering a question from a chatbot guessing at one.
- Semantics The Semantic Layer: The Definitive Guide Why shared definitions became load bearing the moment machines started asking the questions.
- Governance Apache Polaris: The Catalog Standard for Lakehouses and AI One catalog that both engines and agents resolve against, with access decided in one place.
- Architecture Open Source and the Data Lakehouse Assessing openness layer by layer, which is the test that decides whether agents can reach your data at all.
- Table formats What Are Table Formats and Why Were They Needed? How files in object storage became tables that many readers can query at once without stepping on each other.
- Iceberg What Apache Iceberg Native Actually Means Telling real table format support from a connector that reads and little else, which matters more once agents depend on it.
Channels
Dremio blog The working archive: agentic analytics, semantic layers, catalogs, and the lakehouse underneath all of it. Read the archive YouTube, data and AI Walkthroughs and explainers covering both halves of this subject, from agent tooling to table format internals. Watch Data Lakehouse Hub The community hub: articles, a knowledge base, events, and a Slack where practitioners compare notes on what actually shipped. Join the community
Video playlists
Both halves of the subject, since people arrive at this from either side.
Sister sites
This site is deliberately narrow. Each of these takes one part of it further.
- AgenticLakehouse.com Agents operating on lakehouse data, covered at greater length.
- OpenLakehouse.AlexMerced.com The lakehouse substrate on its own terms, one entry per layer and project.
- SemanticLakehouse.com The semantic layer, which is the contract this whole argument rests on.
- OpenAgenticPlatform.com The wider agent platform: protocols, harnesses, identity, and governance.
- AlexMercedAI.com The AI and agent projects, including the open specs behind them.
Community
Places to ask, argue, or find out what somebody else already ran into.