Building a Data Center of Excellence for Modern Data Teams

Einat Orr, PhD
January 4, 2026

Sooner or later, every data team will reach a point where things stop working – whether it’s due to team growth, changing business requirements, or advancing pipeline complexity. When facing…

A Celebration of Shared Vision: lakeFS ???? DVC

Einat Orr, PhD
November 18, 2025

From Inspiration to Action When we were still dreaming up lakeFS, one of the projects that inspired us was DVC (Data Version Control). It was one of those moments when…

Closing The AI Data Infrastructure Gap: Vision For Our $20m Funding Round

Einat Orr, PhD
July 29, 2025

While AI’s promise of increased efficiency and innovation is clear, executing on it is proving to be a major challenge, especially at scale. At lakeFS, we’ve been at the center…

How Data Versioning Turns an “AI-ish” Stack into a Real AI Factory

Einat Orr, PhD
July 9, 2025

It usually starts the same way. A late night message pops up in the channel: “Which v5_final dataset did we use to train the model that just failed in production?”…

The State of Data and AI Engineering 2025

Einat Orr, PhD
May 29, 2025

Since 2021, we’ve published the annual State of Data Engineering Report, which includes a summary of all key categories that directly impact data engineering infrastructure. In 2025, we see five…

Best Practices

Data Silos: What Is It And How Can lakeFS Help?

Einat Orr, PhD
November 25, 2024

If you aspire to run a data-driven organization, it’s time to get interested in data silos. It’s a more common issue than you’d expect. Data silos impact company operations and…

Machine Learning Model Versioning: Top Tools & Best Practices

Einat Orr, PhD
September 4, 2024

Developing a machine learning application is a complex process that involves steps such as processing massive volumes of data, testing multiple ML models, parameter optimization, feature tuning, and others. This…

LLM Observability Tools: 2026 Comparison

Einat Orr, PhD
August 29, 2024

As OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT, which swiftly explained difficult problems, carved sonnets, and discovered errors in code, the usefulness and adaptability of LLMs became clear. Soon after, companies across various sectors…

What Is Write-Audit-Publish and Why Should You Care?

Einat Orr, PhD
August 19, 2024

The Write-Audit-Publish (WAP) pattern in data engineering gives teams greater control over data quality. But what does it entail, and how do you implement it? Keep reading to learn more…

Product

Why We’re Moving ACLs Out of Core lakeFS

Oz Katz, Einat Orr, PhD
July 30, 2024

An upcoming release of lakeFS will no longer include user management with ACLs. The code currently used to manage users and groups will remain open source, but will move into…

Best Practices

Building A Management Layer For Your Data Lake: 3 Practical Examples with Databricks, AWS, and Snowflake

Einat Orr, PhD
July 30, 2024

This article is the continuation of Building A Management Layer For Your Data Lake: 3 Architecture Components. In this part, we explore open table formats, metastores, and data version control…

Best Practices

Building A Management Layer For Your Data Lake: 3 Architecture Components

Einat Orr, PhD
July 29, 2024

The growth in amounts of data was the catalyst for replacing traditional analytics databases with data lakes. While data lakes were able to handle large amounts of data, they did…

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