Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast

Alex Merced explains Concepts and Ideas relevant development of software and web applications. Find all episodes here: https://host.alexmercedpodcast.com/series/webdev101/ Follow Alex on Twitter @alexmercedcoder Find Alex's tutorial blogs and instructional videos at GrokOverflow.com, devNursery.com and AlexMercedCoder.com

Episodes

Enabling and Optimizing Agentic AI: Access, Performance and the Semantic Layer

September 5, 2025

Alex Merced discusses three bottlenecks in building Agentic AI Applications and how platforms like Dremio can address them. Get hands-on with Dremio at Dremio.com Find all of Alex Merced’s blogs and resources at AlexMerced.com

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Why Apache Polaris will Become the Industry Standard Data Lakehouse Catalog

June 30, 2025

Past is Prologue. Alex Merced discusses lessons from the table format wars that can help predict the outcome of the catalog wars. Follow Alex at AlexMerced.com Join the #amtech channel on the Data Lakehouse Hub to discuss the podcast: https://join.slack.com/t/thedatalakehousehub/shared_invite/zt-274yc8sza-mI2zhCW8LGkOh1uxuf8T5Q

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Bonus – What is MCP? (Model Context Protocol – Modern AI 101)

April 6, 2025

Alex Merced discusses modern AI and the new MCP standard and what it means. Follow Alex’s Blogs on and on Social at AlexMerced.com

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BONUS: Data Lakehouse Crash Course (Polaris, Nessie, Unity, Gravitino, Lakekeeper and more!)

November 5, 2024

Register for the catalog Course: https://drmevn.fyi/catalogcourse1024 Watch the Iceberg Crash Course: https://drmevn.fyi/icebergcourse1024 London Meetup: https://lu.ma/Lakehouselinkups Paris Meetup: https://drmevn.fyi/1120-france-meetup My Calendar of Events: https://lu.ma/Lakehouselinkups

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FREE Apache Iceberg Crash Course

July 9, 2024

Register for the Course: https://bit.ly/am-2024-iceberg-live-crash-course-1 Free Copy of Apache Iceberg Book: https://bit.ly/am-iceberg-book My social and blog links: https://bio.alexmerced.com/data

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33 – What is DevOps?

March 28, 2024

Alex Merced discusses what is DevOps? Follow Alex on Social: https://bio.alexmerced.com/web

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32 – Understanding Multithreading, Events Loops, Concurrency and Parallelism

February 2, 2024

Alex Merced talks about breaking down processing into different threads, different cores, and different machines. Follow Alex on Social, all links here https://bio.alexmerced.com/web/

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31 – JS Bundlers (Browserify, Webpack, Rollup, Vite, etc.)

January 21, 2024

Alex Merced discusses JS Bundlers Subscribe on youtube youtube.com/@alexmercedcoder youtube.com/@alexmerceddata bio.alexmerced.com

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Bonus: New Youtube Channel, State of the Data Lakehouse

January 20, 2024

Find all my data resources below:https://bio.alexmerced.com/data Listen to the State of the Data Lakehouse Podcast Here:https://em360tech.com/podcast/dremio-state-data-lakehouse?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=content&utm_campaign=alexmercedcontent&utm_term=iceberg+lakehouse+nessie

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2024 Preview – Data/Web Content

January 9, 2024

youtube.com/@alexmercedcoder youtube.com/@alexmerceddata twitter.com/alexmercedcoder twitter.com/amdatalakehouse

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Call for Speakers – Subsurface 2024 (Live in NYC May 2024)

October 30, 2023

Submit your talks here: https://www.dremio.com/subsurface/

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Bonus: docs.devnursery.com

October 19, 2023

Quick Update and invitation to come check out docs.devnursery.com

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31 – Cross-Origin Cookies

August 23, 2023

Alex Merced talks about cross origin cookies, read his blog on the topic here: https://dev.to/alexmercedcoder/expressjs-handling-cross-origin-cookies-38l9

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30 – Generative AI for Web Developers

June 16, 2023

Follow Alex @alexmercedcoder

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29 – Monolith vs Serverless Application Architecture

May 8, 2023

Alex Merced discusses the difference between a monolith and serverless architecture reflecting on Amazon’s recent migration article.

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BONUS: What is Object Storage like AWS S3, Minio and more!

April 12, 2023

Alex Merced discusses what is Object Storage and the history of file systems. Join the community at datanation.click

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BONUS: The Big Picture at a Tech Company (Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales)

March 23, 2023

Alex Merced discusses the different departments at a tech company and how they all fit together to create success. follow alex on twitter Web -> @alexmercedcoder Data -> @amdatalakehouse

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28 – What is a Database Connection String?

March 21, 2023

Alex Merced talks about the concept of a database connection string, database drivers and object managers. Join the community at devNursery.com Follow me @alexmercedcoder

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27 – What is Hydration and Resumability? (Frontend Rendering Paradigms)

March 10, 2023

Alex Meced discusses the terms “Hydration” and “Resumability” in terms of how frontend frameworks render web applications. Follow me on twitter @alexmercedcoder

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25 – TaskRunners and Build Tools

February 22, 2023

Alex Mercd discusses what is a task runner and what is a build tool.

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Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast

Episodes

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Bonus – What is MCP? (Model Context Protocol – Modern AI 101)

BONUS: Data Lakehouse Crash Course (Polaris, Nessie, Unity, Gravitino, Lakekeeper and more!)

FREE Apache Iceberg Crash Course

33 – What is DevOps?

32 – Understanding Multithreading, Events Loops, Concurrency and Parallelism

31 – JS Bundlers (Browserify, Webpack, Rollup, Vite, etc.)

Bonus: New Youtube Channel, State of the Data Lakehouse

2024 Preview – Data/Web Content

Call for Speakers – Subsurface 2024 (Live in NYC May 2024)

Bonus: docs.devnursery.com

31 – Cross-Origin Cookies

30 – Generative AI for Web Developers

29 – Monolith vs Serverless Application Architecture

BONUS: What is Object Storage like AWS S3, Minio and more!

BONUS: The Big Picture at a Tech Company (Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales)

28 – What is a Database Connection String?

27 – What is Hydration and Resumability? (Frontend Rendering Paradigms)

25 – TaskRunners and Build Tools

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Enabling and Optimizing Agentic AI: Access, Performance and the Semantic Layer

Why Apache Polaris will Become the Industry Standard Data Lakehouse Catalog