Under the hood of Apache Iceberg (w/ Christian Thiel)

Tristan digs deep into the world of Apache Iceberg . There's a lot happening beneath the surface: multiple catalog interfaces, evolving REST specs, and competing implementations across open source, proprietary, and academic contexts. Christian Thiel , co-founder of Lakekeeper , one of the most widely used Iceberg catalogs, joins to walk through the state of the Iceberg ecosystem. For full show notes and to read 6+ years of back issues of the podcast's companion newsletter, head to . The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs.

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Under the hood of Apache Iceberg (w/ Christian Thiel) is an episode from The Analytics Engineering Podcast by dbt Labs, Inc..

This episode is 55:59 long.

This episode was published on Aug 24, 2025.

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