GSDin3
Open Table Formats are the cornerstone of your Lakehouse, but require strategic planning tied to business outcomes.
The industry is sprinting toward Open Table Formats (OTFs) like Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake (ok, fine, and Apache Hudi). They’re powerful. They’re promising. And if you mistake them for strategy, they’re a great way to modernize your tech stack without modernizing your outcomes. Gartner’s own warning is blunt: Most data & analytics governance initiatives fail when they’re not anchored to real business outcomes. [1]
MCP Yay! Wait.........
We’ve been here before with ESBs- What’s different this time?
I have started seeing MCP pop up between apps - not just agents - in modern app architectures.
I have déjà vu. We’ve seen this movie before, just with middleware and ESBs.
The promise was to tame heterogeneity, reduce point‑to‑point chaos, and centralize governance.
It worked…and sold well…until it didn’t. The opportunity with MCP is real, but so are the risks ......