Rootconf 2025 Annual Conference CfP

Description

In this talk, we will explore the internals of Iceberg table format. We examine the past, present, and future of analytics data systems, and reason with first-principles why open table formats, such as Iceberg, exist.

The outline of the talk roughly looks like:

• Early 2010s in big data and emergence of OLAP data systems
• Advent of object storage as the universal file system
• The great disaggregation – separation of storage and compute
• Rise of open table formats
• Apache Iceberg’s mechanics and ACID compliance

Takeaway

This talk would help audience:

• Build a knack for systems thinking
• Make distributed data systems seem less scary and more approachable
• Develop mechanical sympathy and appreciate the collective effort that engineering is

Target audience

Beginner/Intermediate engineers interested in database and systems engineering

Bio

Mrinal Paliwal - Software Engineer at e6data