What happens when ๐ฎ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ด meet the reality of maintaining Iceberg metadata at scale?
We just dropped a deep-dive blog that pulls back the curtain on our experience managing ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ-๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น-๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐น๐ผ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ to Apache Iceberg tables for the past 24 months at Onehouse.
Spoiler: expireSnapshots and deleteOrphanFiles are NOT your best friends at high scale.
๐ฅ In this post:
โขWhy Icebergโs default snapshot expiration can ๐ฏ๐น๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฝ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ฆ๐๐๐
โขHow orphaned file cleanup can turn into a โ๐๐ผ๐ผ-๐ฏ๐ถ๐ด-๐๐ผ-๐๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฑโ table operation
โขWhy most vendors quietly recommend daily/weekly/monthly maintenance ops ๐ฌ
โขHow ๐๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ ๐ซ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ helped us crack the code โ with a custom FileCleanupStrategy, timeline-powered cleanups, and ๐ฎ๐๐๐ป๐ฐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ปโ๐ ๐ฏ๐น๐ผ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป
Whether youโre building for high-frequency CDC, streaming, or just love Iceberg enough to push it past its comfort zone, this one is worth the read. ๐ง
๐ Blog:
onehouse.ai/blog/from-the-trโฆ
๐ Get into the weeds. Get real-world lessons. Get your Iceberg game ready for the streaming age.
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