Books by Alex Merced
Books by Alex Merced
Alex writes the way he teaches: to make a hard subject usable. These are his books from O'Reilly, Manning, and Packt. Each title links to its page on books.alexmerced.com, which has the details.
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Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide
O'Reilly Media
A comprehensive guide to Apache Iceberg and modern lakehouse architecture, covering table format internals, schema evolution, partitioning, and integration with major query engines.
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Apache Polaris: The Definitive Guide
O'Reilly Media
A guide to open catalogs for Apache Iceberg lakehouses, covering Polaris catalog architecture, configuration, and governance.
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Architecting an Apache Iceberg Lakehouse
Manning Publications
Architecture patterns and best practices for building production-grade, Iceberg-based data platforms from the ground up.
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Building the Software Factory
Packt Publishing
Co-authored with Benedikt Stemmildt. How to turn AI coding agents into a dependable, team-wide software factory using context engineering, AI-TDD, harness design, and the AEMM and Elastic Loop frameworks, moving teams from vibe coding to disciplined agentic engineering.
How the books fit the story
The O'Reilly and Manning books came out of Alex's work in developer relations at Dremio. The books and authorship chapter covers when each was published and what came after.