A technical guide on using Apache Iceberg with Apache Spark and Polaris for building and managing a data lakehouse, covering setup, operations, and optimization.
Overview of key proposals in Apache Iceberg v4, focusing on performance, metadata efficiency, and portability for modern data workloads.
A comprehensive guide comparing five major open table formats (Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, Paimon, DuckLake) for modern data lakehouses, covering their internals and use cases.
A comprehensive guide to the data lakehouse architecture, its core components (Iceberg, Delta, Hudi, Paimon), and the surrounding ecosystem for modern data platforms.
A guide to building an autonomous, self-healing optimization pipeline for Apache Iceberg tables to maintain performance and cost efficiency.
Strategies for scaling and optimizing Apache Iceberg data compaction jobs, including parallelism, checkpointing, and failure recovery.
Explores challenges and best practices for managing partition evolution and compaction in Apache Iceberg to maintain query performance.
Explains how to use Apache Iceberg's metadata tables to dynamically trigger data compaction based on file size, manifest health, and snapshot patterns.
A guide to scheduling compaction and snapshot expiration in Apache Iceberg tables based on workload patterns and infrastructure constraints.
A guide comparing Apache Flink SQL, Kafka Connect, and Confluent Tableflow for moving data from Apache Kafka to Apache Iceberg tables.
Explains how to manage Apache Iceberg table metadata by expiring old snapshots and rewriting manifests to prevent performance and cost issues.
Explains how to use sorting and Z-order clustering in Apache Iceberg tables to optimize query performance and data layout.
Explains techniques for incremental, non-disruptive compaction in Apache Iceberg tables under continuous streaming data ingestion.
Explains data compaction using bin packing in Apache Iceberg to merge small files, improve query performance, and reduce metadata overhead.
A monthly roundup of data engineering links covering Apache Iceberg, Kafka, Debezium, Spark, and lakehouse architecture.
Explains how Apache Iceberg tables degrade without optimization, covering small files, fragmented manifests, and performance impacts.
Explains the importance of table maintenance in Apache Iceberg for data lakehouses, covering metadata and file management.
A technical guide on using Kafka Connect to write data from Kafka topics to Apache Iceberg tables stored on AWS S3, using the Glue Data Catalog.
A guide on how to find, join, and organize community meetups focused on Apache Iceberg and modern data lakehouse architectures.
A monthly roundup of tech links covering data lakehouses (DuckLake, Iceberg), Kafka, event streaming, and stream processing developments.
