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Everything here is free to read or watch. Start with Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide if you are new to Iceberg, then use the videos and articles to fill gaps. Most of these come from Dremio, where Alex runs developer relations. One book, Apache Iceberg in 100 Pages, asks you to answer a survey before you download it.
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Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide
The complete guide to Apache Iceberg by Tomer Shiran, Jason Hughes & Alex Merced from Dremio.
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Apache Polaris: The Definitive Guide
Deep dive into Polaris, the modern Iceberg-native catalog for scalable lakehouse architectures.
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Agentic AI for Dummies
Dremio Special Edition by Wiley. The plain-English guide to autonomous AI systems.
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Federation, Semantic Layer & Lakehouse for Agentic AI
How to leverage federation, the semantic layer and the lakehouse for agentic AI.
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Videos, courses, and articles
Short walkthroughs, Dremio University badges, and explainers on table formats, catalogs, and semantic layers.
Dremio Semantic Layer Demo
Walkthrough of Dremio's semantic layer for governed, business-friendly data access.
How Dremio is the Iceberg Native Platform
Deep dive into Dremio's Apache Iceberg integration and capabilities.
Semantic Layer: The Definitive Guide
The semantic layer is not a one-time project. It is a living system that grows with your organization's data needs.
Apache Polaris: The Catalog Standard
Organizations are already using Polaris RBAC, catalog federation, credential vending, and generic tables to govern multi-engine lakehouses at scale.
What Are Table Formats?
A table format defines how to organize metadata about data files so that query engines can treat them as reliable, transactional tables.
What is Dremio?
Dremio is a unified platform that eliminates data silos, secures object storage with an Iceberg-based lakehouse, and accelerates insights with Agentic AI.
What 'Apache Iceberg Native' Actually Means
If your intention is to make Iceberg your primary analytics format, then 'supports Iceberg' and 'built for Iceberg' lead to very different outcomes.