THE MOST VALUABLE API IN THE MODERN DATA STACK RETURNS NO DATA

Summary from the TLDR Data newsletter

Bulk export APIs are giving way to shared table references. Iceberg REST catalogs, object storage, Parquet, and credential vending let producers publish metadata while consumers bring their own compute, avoiding pagination, rate limits, and duplicate pipelines. The hard parts move to contracts, compaction, semantics, privacy, and table maintenance promises.