Why is Everyone Talking About Apache Iceberg™?

[2025 - Day 1 - Data Eng & Infra] Ryan Blue shares insights from creating Apache Iceberg, exploring its origins at Netflix and evolution into a universal table format that's transforming the analytic database industry. This primer from Iceberg's original creator offers valuable guidance on how these technologies are changing modern analytics and why they're more relevant than ever today, making it essential viewing for anyone working with open table formats or building data lake architectures. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Ryan Blue, Apache Iceberg Creator, Technical Staff, Databricks 👉 Sign up for our "No BS" Newsletter to get the latest technical data & AI content: https://datacouncil.ai/newsletter ABOUT DATA COUNCIL: Data Council brings together the brightest minds in data to share industry knowledge, technical architectures and best practices in building cutting edge data & AI systems and tools. FIND US: Twitter: https://twitter.com/datacouncilai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/datacouncil-ai/ Website: https://www.datacouncil.ai/