Why You Shouldn’t Care About Iceberg

Ryan Blue, co-creator of the Apache Iceberg project will try to convince you not to care about Iceberg: if you’re thinking about your table format, then it isn’t doing a good enough job.

This session will show how Iceberg solves real-world problems that used to take hours or days of time from data engineers and analysts:

• Safe schema changes — no more zombie data columns
• Layout evolution — update table partitioning without rewriting any queries
• Hidden partitioning — safe and fast queries without being a DBA
• Future work — current frustrations and how we’re making them disappear