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8 postsLakehouse Encryption Explained: Parquet, Iceberg, and the Interop Puzzle
A deep dive into Parquet and Iceberg 1.11 encryption architecture, key terminology, and the interoperability challenges of multi-engine lakehouses.
pgColumnar 1.0-alpha2 Ships Read-Only Iceberg and S3 Object Storage
pgColumnar 1.0-alpha2 adds read-only Apache Iceberg support, S3-compatible object storage, a maintenance daemon, and six security fixes.
How Grab Scaled Its Data Lake by Adopting Apache Iceberg
Grab's migration from Hive Parquet to Apache Iceberg: performance gains, cost savings, and the open-sourced UnifiedSparkCatalog for Spark.
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commitbrief.comApache Lakehouse Weekly: Governance Debates Across Iceberg, Parquet
Apache Iceberg, Parquet, and Polaris communities debated format governance this week: statistics ownership, file-level access control, and primary key support.
Apache Iceberg's Variant Type: How Shredding Speeds Up JSON Analytics
Apache Iceberg v3's Variant type and shredding technique make JSON data both flexible and fast to query. Here's how it works under the hood.
How Netflix Outgrew Casspactor for Cassandra-to-Iceberg Data Movement
Netflix built a layered, S3-native engine to replace its aging Casspactor connector for moving Cassandra data into Iceberg, fixing scale and reliability issues.
Apache Iceberg V3: How Deletion Vectors Rewrote Delete Economics
A deep dive into why deleting rows in Apache Iceberg is hard, how v2's delete files work, and how v3's deletion vectors reshape update economics.
Streaming to Apache Iceberg: Understanding the Latency Physics
A 2026 technical guide to the physics of streaming into Iceberg, covering commit costs, small-file risk, and the latency trade-offs between Flink and Spark.