Apache Iceberg: What It Is and Why Everyone’s Talking About It.

Apache Iceberg had recently climbed to the top of the open table formats, and secured its place as the de facto standard format for tables in the data lake. Confluent had also released Tableflow, a technology that makes Kafka topics in Confluent Cloud readable as Iceberg tables at the touch of a button. This video is a gentle introduction to Icebert itself, plus a brief treatment of Confluent Tableflow.