The Lakehouse Pattern
Iceberg, Delta, and the architecture that replaced your warehouse
Open table formats changed the rules. This manual covers the operational decisions: choosing between Iceberg, Delta, and Hudi for your workload; partitioning that survives schema evolution; running Trino at scale; and the exact migration sequence for moving petabytes off proprietary warehouses without freezing reporting. Every chapter has a real numbers section: bytes scanned, dollars saved, queries broken.
Sofía has rebuilt analytics platforms at three unicorns and now writes the playbook she wishes she had had on day one. Specializes in lakehouse design and query plan archaeology.
- Pages
- 392
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Language
- English
- Level
- advanced
- ISBN
- 978-1-99999-005-0
- Published
- April 2026
Reviewed by three working engineers at peer publications before publication. We do not publish first drafts.
What you'll find inside.
- 01The Warehouse Cost Wall
- 02Open Table Formats Compared
- 03Catalog Choices: Glue, Polaris, Unity
- 04Partitioning That Survives Year Three
- 05Streaming Into Iceberg
- 06Query Engines: Trino, DuckDB, Spark
- 07The Migration Playbook
- 08Governance Without a Vendor
- 09The Next Five Years
5.0 / 5
156 verified readers
The migration playbook saved a quarter
Sofía's migration chapter is the most realistic sequence I have seen documented anywhere. We adapted it almost verbatim.
