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When you work with data in Fabric Lakehouse, you need to understand two fundamental table types: managed tables and external tables. This distinction affects how your data is stored, accessed, and what happens when you delete tables. This article exp...

In the era of big data, data lakes became a popular choice for large-scale analytics, thanks to their flexibility, low cost, and separation of storage and compute. But they’ve also struggled with consistency, schema drift, and complex query optimizat...

title: The Ultimate Guide to Open Table Formats - Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, Paimon, and DuckLake date: "2025-09-24" description: "Understanding Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, Paimon, and DuckLake" author: "Alex Merced" category: "Data Engineering" banne...

Last week I was working on a Spark pipeline that was running slowly, and I discovered that a specific task with significant skew was the cause. Googling for the problem didn’t return any meaningful result, so I had to figure it out myself. Here’s wha...
