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VideoSep 30, 202535 mins

Streaming to Apache Iceberg Tables

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Session Overview

Learn how to design scalable streaming pipelines with Apache Iceberg. This talk covers best practices for integrating Flink, Kafka, Debezium, and Spark, managing compaction and deletes, and building reliable real-time data lakehouse architectures.

Streaming data is at the heart of every modern data platform — but building a robust, scalable streaming architecture can be complex. In this talk, we’ll explore how to design and implement efficient streaming pipelines with Apache Iceberg, a next-generation table format that brings reliability and flexibility to data lakes.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Identify your organization’s streaming requirements and architecture patterns
  • Integrate key tools like Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Debezium, Kafka Connect, and Apache Spark for end-to-end data movement and transformation
  • Manage compaction and delete files in Iceberg to maintain performance and consistency
  • Streamline real-time analytics, machine learning, and data lakehouse ingestion with Iceberg

Whether you’re modernizing legacy ETL or scaling up real-time data systems, this session offers practical best practices and design patterns for streaming to Apache Iceberg tables efficiently and reliably.

About Speaker

Alex Merced

Alex Merced Alex Merced is the Head of Developer Relations at Dremio and co-author of "Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide" (O’Reilly). With experience as a developer and instructor at companies like GenEd Systems, Crossfield Digital, CampusGuard, and General Assembly, he’s an active educator and content creator through his blogs, videos, and podcasts (Datanation and Web Dev 101). Alex has also contributed several open-source libraries in JavaScript and Python, including SencilloDB, CoquitoJS, and dremio-simple-query.