Apache Iceberg - Under the Hood
In this video, Dipankar breaks down how Apache Iceberg works under the hood - starting from the limitations of Hive-style tables to why Iceberg was built in the first place. He covers: Why Hive-based tables break at scale (Netflix example) How object storage changes the problem (S3 behavior, listing, throttling) Iceberg architecture (catalog, metadata, snapshots, manifests, data files) How query planning works step by step Why Iceberg is a specification — not an execution engine.