Modern Data Lake Architecture: A Practical Guide to Iceberg & Delta Lake for Scalable Analytics

Struggling to keep your data lake performant as it grows to terabytes or petabytes of records? Modern Data Lake Architecture: A Practical Guide to Iceberg & Delta Lake for Scalable Analytics tackles that very challenge, showing you how to build a resilient, high-throughput lakehouse using today's leading open-table formats.

This book delivers a clear, step-by-step blueprint for implementing Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake on cloud-native storage. You'll learn how to:

• Design robust ingestion pipelines for both batch and streaming workloads

• Manage schemas and time-travel with confidence using Iceberg snapshots and Delta versions

• Optimize data layout through partitioning, Z-ordering, and file compaction

• Automate maintenance with manifest pruning, OPTIMIZE, and VACUUM routines

• Enable multi-engine analytics by querying with Spark, Trino/Presto, and JDBC clients

• Enforce governance via Unity Catalog, Lake Formation, and row-level access policies

• Monitor and alert on performance, freshness, and data quality with Prometheus and Databricks REST APIs

• Deploy infrastructure as code using Terraform, Helm charts, and cloud-provider patterns

Whether you're a data engineer seeking practical code examples or an analytics architect planning a lakehouse rollout, this guide equips you with the hands-on strategies and reusable templates you need. Each chapter focuses on real-world scenarios-from Netflix's petabyte-scale Iceberg migration to Databricks lakehouse best practices-so you can apply proven tactics without reinventing the wheel.

Ready to accelerate your path to a scalable, reliable data platform? Secure your copy of Modern Data Lake Architecture today and start transforming your raw data into actionable insights-faster, safer, and at any scale.