Thank you for letting me keynote day 2 of the Iceberg summit. I hope you all enjoyed it!

The AI Honeymoon Phase Won’t Last YouTube video by Gradient Flow

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Why there’s no European Google? Why there’s no European Google? par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

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s2-lite is here – an open source @s2.dev Stream Store! It's a single binary you can run anywhere. Powered by SlateDB, so you can point it at an object storage bucket for durable streams with real-time reads. github.com/s2-streamsto...

GitHub - s2-streamstore/s2: Durable Streams API Durable Streams API. Contribute to s2-streamstore/s2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

"s2-lite is an open source, self-hostable server implementation of the S2 API. It uses SlateDB as its storage engine, which relies entirely on object storage for durability."

Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18 Learn how to clone PostgreSQL databases instantly using reflinks. Turn slow template copies into milliseconds with PostgreSQL 18's new file copy options.

Cloner une base de données de 6 Go avec Postgresql 18 ne prends que quelques centaines de millisecondes

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Stop Nesting Database Systems CedarDB is a database system that delivers unmatched performance for transactions and analytics, from small writes to handling billions of rows. Built on cutting-edge research to power today’s tools a...

Stop nesting database systems just to paper over analytics pain. pg_duckdb and pg_clickhouse look tidy, but they rarely fix the real bottlenecks.

We explain why, and what we had to build to get HTAP right end‑to‑end in our latest blog post: cedardb.com/blog/unnest_...

How AI Agents are changing the job of a Data Engineer ai.gopubby.com/what-it-mean...

In DuckDB v1.4.2, we shipped a number of features and improvements to the DuckDB-Iceberg extension: insert, update, and delete statements are all supported now.

Read Tom Ebergen's new article on these features at duckdb.org/2025/11/28/i...

My view of tech debt is that there are many flavors of it.

The first flavor is probably the one most people think of: tech debt is software conceived from a shortcut. It is a tradeoff where implementation details are chosen for the sake of expediency, and at the detriment of quality.

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GitHub - chaitin/SafeLine: SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits. SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits. - chaitin/SafeLine

SafeLine est un WAF (Web Application Firewall) open source sous licence GPL v3. Il est conçu pour protéger contre des attaques type xss, injection sql, injection crlf, etc ... Et dispose de tout ce qui est nécessaire (gui, plugins, ...) ⬇️

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Ultimately, the main challenge is creating and maintaining connectors. This must be left to the community.

We can think that actors like Risingwave, Feldera can also play this role for the ETL.
Apache Data Fusion too !

This week I thought about the same thing again! Dremio makes that possible! And we have Iceberg with it.

The KubeCon NA 2025 in Atlanta, it’s in less than a month!

I am very happy to inform you that there will be 2 book signing sessions on the @ovhcloudus.bsky.social
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November 11 & 12th from 1pm - 2 pm EST!

Note these slots in your agenda now (and come a little early 😇)!

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Today is the day, Java 25 went GA!

How We Built Our lakeFS Iceberg Catalog A behind-the-scenes look at the design decisions, architecture, and lessons learned while bringing the Apache Iceberg REST Catalog to lakeFS.

lakeFS : How We Built Our lakeFS Apache Iceberg Catalog

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CedarDB
#DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure #SQL

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Bottlefire

Build single-executable microVMs from Docker images

Bottlefire turns container images into standalone, zero-dependency #Linux executables that bundle Firecracker and launch #microVMs automatically.

bottlefire.dev

🧊 Apache Iceberg France Community Meetup le 🗓️ 17 Septembre à ⏰ 18:00 précise chez Scaleway

Yingjun Wu, Founder and CEO at RisingWave, Postgres -> Iceberg: The Pipeline Everyone Thinks Is Boring (But Isn't) (EN)

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GitHub - microsoft/presidio: An open-source framework for detecting, redacting, masking, and anonymizing sensitive data (PII) across text, images, and structured data. Supports NLP, pattern matching, ... An open-source framework for detecting, redacting, masking, and anonymizing sensitive data (PII) across text, images, and structured data. Supports NLP, pattern matching, and customizable pipelines...

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Create encrypted Persistent Volumes on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes clusters with LUKS - OVHcloud Blog Since this summer, it’s possible to create encrypted OVHcloud Block Storage with OMK (OVHcloud managed key) in RBX, SBG, Paris & BHS regions. More regions will come in the coming months 💪. And the goo...

Breaking news:
You can use encrypted OVHcloud Block Storage with OMK (OVHcloud managed key) using Persistent Volumes in your Managed Kubernetes Service (MKS) clusters 🎉.

Read this new blog post to know how to do that 👀

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@kubernetes.io

Check out ZeroFS ;)

LF AI & Data Foundation Hosts Vortex Project to Power High Performance Data Access for AI and Analytics Contributed by SpiralDB, Vortex is an extensible, next-generation columnar storage format designed for building high-performance, future-proof data systems

Vortex (vortex.dev) is now a Linux Foundation project www.linuxfoundation.org/press/lf-ai-...

le prochain @Iceberg.apache.org France Community #Meetup est en préparation...