The MURE LOG #7: agents, data, engineers
The data systems log, curated by humans
Hey, welcome back!
In this edition, we're making the newsletter crispier and easier to digest. This drop explores how AI agents are transforming data infrastructure and engineering practices. It covers the architectural shift toward agentic-first systems (Org Mode automation, data lakehouses, cross-cloud interoperability), emerging concerns about AI tooling costs and adoption barriers, and the organizational changes required as agents become capable of independent coding and data work.
Our feed
01 / Org Mode in the AI Era: Organize Your Life in Plain Text, Then Automate It - Sem Sinchenko
Headless Emacs in Docker running constrained LLM workflows inside deterministic code.
02 / Five things I believe about the future of analytics - Tristan Handy
Analytics going technical, data usage will explode, agents moving fast, agents consuming more than humans, and harnesses.
03 / The future of data lakehouse: Open and interoperable for the agentic era - Gaurav Saxena et al.
Open Iceberg storage, cross-cloud data access, and always-on context to power enterprise agents.
04 / Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann - Gergely Orosz
Our favorite book author is interviewed.
05 / The 10x Data Team = The Markdown Team - Julien Hurault
If agents can code, what will we build? On new data team roles and structures.
06 / Using Claude Code: session management and 1M context - Thariq
Guide on session management, compaction, and the 1M context window.
07 / The impact of AI on software engineers in 2026: key trends - Gergely Orosz
AI tooling survey finds concerns about mounting costs of AI, more engineers hitting usage limits, and AI tools having uneven effects upon different types of engineers.
08 / Night Shift Agentic Workflow - Jamon Holmgren
AI-centric SDLC. Night shift: day (focus time) → night (agents mode).
09 / Your harness, your memory - Harrison Chase
Memory and harnesses should be open, so that you own your own memory.
What's new
Apache Iceberg - Iceberg summit happened April 8-9th. Google, Databricks, and Snowflake wrote about Iceberg + interoperability.
CocoIndex - v1 live
Databricks - sent an email for Unity Catalog enforcement in new workspaces (starting Sept 30). Users can change that enabling “disable legacy features“
dbt Labs - 2026 State of Analytics Engineering Report is live
Google - Next ‘26 day 1 recap
Mure Data - new company launch!
Tools & demos
Angel Conde - sample-semantic-lakehouse, using Agentcore and Iceberg
Kurt Buhler - power-bi-agentic-development, skills and more
Maxim Anatsko & Kurt Buhler - pbir-cli
MemPalace - mempalace, OSS AI memory system
Sandeep Pawar - Community hub for Fabric data agents
Upcoming Events
ODSC · April 28 / Boston
VibeCon · April 29 / Virtual
OpenXData · April 29 / Virtual
AI Council · May 12 / SF
PyCon US · May 13 / Long Beach, CA
Snowflake Summit · June 1 / SF
Databricks Data + AI Summit · June 15 / SF
EuroPython 2026 · July 13 / Kraków, Poland
Ai4 · Aug 4 / Las Vegas
dbt Summit · Sep 15 / Las Vegas
Big Data LDN · Sep 23 / London
Microsoft Fabric Community Conference Europe · Sep 28 / Barcelona, Spain
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