Fireside Chat

Fireside Chat: Apache Iceberg in Production

Details

Date:
October 30, 2025
Time:
On-demand
Duration:
58 mins

Summary

A candid CTO-to-CTO conversation exploring how Apache Iceberg is reshaping real-world data engineering. Jacopo Tagliabue (Bauplan) and Shubham Satish Baldava (OLake) compare notes on CDC pipelines, treating data like code, and the operational lessons that make Iceberg deployments succeed.

✅ Pain points in production environments and the gaps in existing tooling
✅ CDC pipeline design, parallel processing techniques, and performance considerations
✅ Treating data like code with branching, testing, and controlled deployments
✅ Deletion vectors, REST catalogs, and why Iceberg V3 changes how teams operate
✅ Real challenges, benchmarks, and lessons learned while scaling data infrastructure
✅ Roadmaps that combine ML and analytics requirements on a single Iceberg foundation
✅ Practical tips for tackling implementation snags and improving developer velocity
✅ Audience Q&A touching on architecture trade-offs and day-two operations

Hosted By

Jacopo Tagliabue

Co-founder & CTO, Bauplan

Jacopo leads the technical strategy at Bauplan where he helps teams bring machine learning and analytics into production faster. He previously built the AI platform at Coveo, authored multiple papers on applied ML, and mentors startups on data platform design.

Shubham Satish Baldava

CTO, OLake

Shubham oversees OLake's engineering roadmap, focusing on CDC-first architectures and production-ready Iceberg deployments. He collaborates with customers to remove bottlenecks in data lake operations and accelerates modern data platform migrations.

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