Sahil Walia, Senior Technical Architect at Snowflake, joins host Robert Blumen for a deep dive into Apache Iceberg. The conversation covers OLAP, data formats, data lakes and lake houses, Iceberg as a data format, columnar storage, use cases, reference implementation, read/write, how Iceberg structures metadata, indexing, query planning and performance issues.
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Related Links
- Kafka in Action by Dylan Scott, Viktor Gamov, Dave Klein Kafka in Action
- Viktor Gamov blog, talks gamov.io , Viktor Gamov
- Vitkrot Gamov github gAmUssA – Overview
- Iceberg 101 course by Dremio Apache Iceberg 101 – Your Guide to Learning Apache Iceberg Concepts and Practices | Dremio
- Sahil Walia’s LinkedIn profile
- Sahil Walia – Medium
- Sahil Walia’s Google Scholar page
- Apache Iceberg – Apache Iceberg™
- apache iceberg: the definitive guide Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide



