I had never publicly written about Nephtys, and the first thing I have to report about it on real hardware is a null result: the memory advantage reproduced on a Raspberry Pi 5, the energy advantage never existed.
In the dlt+dbt post the contract was a Unity Catalog schema. With Zerobus Ingest I moved the same question to the producer edge: when the sink is already a governed Delta table, do you really need a bus in the middle?
Three lakehouse stacks for adding AI/ML and streaming on top of an existing warehouse, compared through a FinOps lens: DBUs, DPUs, TB-scanned, S3 GB-month, and egress, walked through real workload patterns with 2026 prices.
The partnership between RisingWave and Iceberg-Rust represents a window into where modern data engineering is heading: real-time CDC streaming, intelligent hybrid delete strategy, and a performant Rust ecosystem challenging JVM dominance.