Tag:data governance
Articles tagged "data governance".
- 31 MIN READ•Sep 28, 2026
Keeping Audit Snapshots Alive While Iceberg Snapshot Expiration Runs Every Night
How Iceberg snapshot tags keep audit snapshots alive through nightly expiration: retention calendars, RETAIN semantics, compaction cost, and erasure conflicts.
Apache IcebergSnapshot ExpirationData Governance - 31 MIN READ•Sep 28, 2026
Twelve Queries That Pass Every Schema Check and Still Return the Wrong Number
Twelve query patterns that pass schema validation and still return wrong numbers, with detectors, required metadata, and tested code for each.
AI AgentsSemantic LayerData Quality - 31 MIN READ•Sep 10, 2026
Agentic Data Architecture
A six-layer reference architecture for agents on company data: planners, tool boundaries, identity, the semantic layer, and what breaks when a layer is missing.
Agentic AIdata architecturesemantic layer - 21 MIN READ•Aug 4, 2026
Metric Contracts as the Interface AI Agents Actually Need
Metric contracts as the interface AI agents need: calculation, inclusion rules, grain, temporal semantics, ownership, semantic versioning, and testing.
AI AgentsMetric ContractsSemantic Layer - 31 MIN READ•Jul 28, 2026
Guardrails for Analytics Agents That Do More Than Answer Questions
The risk isn't agents going rogue, it's agents acting correctly on bad input at machine speed.
AI AgentsGuardrailsData Governance - 31 MIN READ•Jul 28, 2026
Building Agent Telemetry Tables in Iceberg That Survive an Audit
A practical guide to building agent decision traces in Apache Iceberg that support audit reconstruction, governance review, and cost attribution.
Apache IcebergAI AgentsData Governance - 31 MIN READ•Jul 28, 2026
Governing Iceberg Tables Across Regions Without Three Sets of Permissions
Catalog federation gives you one authorization model and one audit point across regions. Here's what it solves, what it doesn't, and how to build.
Apache IcebergApache PolarisData Governance - 30 MIN READ•Jul 6, 2026
The Who, What, and Why of Semantic Layers: The Layer That Decides Whether Your Numbers Can Be Trusted
There is a survey statistic making the rounds this year that I cannot stop quoting: 84 percent of data teams report regularly encountering conflict...
semantic layersanalyticsdata governance - 15 MIN READ•Jun 8, 2026
Composable Analytics Beats Metric Catalogs
Metric catalogs tell agents what terms mean. Composable analytics tells agents how to reason with those terms safely.
semantic layerdata governancecomposable analytics - 15 MIN READ•Jun 8, 2026
Implementing MCP in the Lakehouse
MCP gives AI clients a standard way to call governed lakehouse tools instead of guessing how to query your data.
lakehousesemantic layerdata governance - 15 MIN READ•Jun 8, 2026
SaaS Buyers Now Inspect Your Semantic Layer
Enterprise SaaS buyers increasingly want machine-readable data contracts, not only dashboards.
semantic layerdata governanceSaaS procurement - 14 MIN READ•Jun 8, 2026
Semantic View Autopilot in Snowflake Semantic Studio
Autopilot can draft semantic views quickly, but production semantics still need human review, tests, and governance.
Snowflakesemantic layerdata governance