The Boring Reason Iceberg Matters

TL;DR: Iceberg s value is sociological, not technical. And if you care about lightweight, single-process engines like datafusion and duckdb, it s probably your best shot at first-class lakehouse support with Wide interoperability. The first real data engineering work I did was an ingestion pipeline built on pandas and Parquet with Hive-style partitioning — an environment where Continue reading…