What Iceberg Table Maintenance Actually Costs
September 10, 2026A cost model for compaction, snapshot expiry, orphan cleanup, and manifest rewriting: what each operation spends, on which meter, and how to set a schedule.
4 posts tagged with "compaction"
Running an Iceberg Lakehouse on Kubernetes
September 10, 2026Catalog, maintenance, and compaction as Kubernetes workloads: scheduling classes, job structure, credential flow, and the failures that come from the interaction.
The Hidden Cost of Tiny Iceberg Commits
August 24, 2026Trace what one tiny Iceberg commit writes, then model hourly, per-minute, and per-second cadences so streaming costs become arithmetic, not adjectives.
Table Maintenance Stopped Being a Product
July 25, 2026Iceberg table maintenance commoditized when every platform started shipping it. What the six operations are, what they cost, and the observability you should keep even when the work is managed.