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2026-07-28 - Alex Merced

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Building Iceberg Pipelines in Python Without Standing Up Spark

2026-07-28 - Alex Merced

Implementing MCP in the Lakehouse

2026-06-08 - Alex Merced

Modern Python Tooling for Apache Iceberg

2026-06-08 - Alex Merced

Single-Node Data Engineering: DuckDB, DataFusion, Polars, and LakeSail

2026-05-24 - Alex Merced

dremioframe & iceberg - Pythonic interfaces for Dremio and Apache Iceberg

2025-12-05 - Alex Merced

Introducing dremioframe - A Pythonic DataFrame Interface for Dremio

2025-11-29 - Alex Merced

A Journey from AI to LLMs and MCP - 10 - Sampling and Prompts in MCP – Making Agent Workflows Smarter and Safer

2025-04-14 - Alex Merced

A Journey from AI to LLMs and MCP - 9 - Tools in MCP – Giving LLMs the Power to Act

2025-04-13 - Alex Merced

A Journey from AI to LLMs and MCP - 8 - Resources in MCP – Serving Relevant Data Securely to LLMs

2025-04-12 - Alex Merced

A Journey from AI to LLMs and MCP - 7 - Under the Hood – The Architecture of MCP and Its Core Components

2025-04-11 - Alex Merced

Journey from AI to LLMs and MCP - 6 - Enter the Model Context Protocol (MCP) – The Interoperability Layer for AI Agents

2025-04-10 - Alex Merced

A Journey from AI to LLMs and MCP - 5 - AI Agent Frameworks – Benefits and Limitations

2025-04-09 - Alex Merced

A Journey from AI to LLMs and MCP - 4 - What Are AI Agents – And Why They're the Future of LLM Applications

2025-04-08 - Alex Merced

A Journey from AI to LLMs and MCP - 3 - Boosting LLM Performance – Fine-Tuning, Prompt Engineering, and RAG

2025-04-07 - Alex Merced

A Journey from AI to LLMs and MCP - 2 - How LLMs Work – Embeddings, Vectors, and Context Windows

2025-04-06 - Alex Merced

A Journey from AI to LLMs and MCP - 1 - What Is AI and How It Evolved Into LLMs

2025-04-05 - Alex Merced

Building a Basic MCP Server with Python

2025-04-04 - Alex Merced

Leveraging Python's Pattern Matching and Comprehensions for Data Analytics

2024-11-01 - Alex Merced

Getting Started with Data Analytics Using PyArrow in Python

2024-10-15 - Alex Merced

Exploring Data Operations with PySpark, Pandas, DuckDB, Polars, and DataFusion in a Python Notebook

2024-10-07 - Alex Merced

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