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RADE™ Apache Iceberg for Lakehouse Engineering

ACID Tables, Time Travel & Production-Grade Lakehouse Operations

Course Summary

ACID Tables, Time Travel & Production-Grade Lakehouse Operations

Modern data lakes break down the moment data needs to be updated, deleted, audited, or governed.
Apache Iceberg is the technology that fixes this — and it is the foundation of modern Lakehouse architectures.

This course teaches Apache Iceberg from first principles to production operations, specifically for Data Engineers building Lakehouse systems on AWS using Athena and Glue.

You will learn why Iceberg exists, how it works internally, and how it is operated in real production environments — not just how to create tables.

This course is part of the RADE Diamond Membership – Applied Data Engineering Mastery Program and is a core pillar of the Lakehouse Mastery track, building directly on:

Glue Catalog & Crawler Foundations
Athena (ELT & optimization)

What This Course Focuses On

This is not a syntax-only course.

You will understand:

Why file formats (Parquet) are insufficient
Why table formats exist
How Iceberg enables ACID, UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE
How Iceberg’s snapshot-based architecture actually works
How metadata, manifests, and data files interact
How Iceberg tables are maintained, optimized, and governed in production

This is the level of understanding expected from Senior Data Engineers and Lakehouse Architects.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Explain Iceberg internals confidently in interviews
Design transactional Lakehouse tables
Implement MERGE-based upserts
Use time travel for audit, rollback, and debugging
Apply schema evolution without downtime
Choose correct partitioning strategies
Run production-grade optimization & maintenance workflows
Decide between Copy-on-Write vs Merge-on-Read

Course Curriculum

Part 1: Iceberg Fundamentals & Snapshot-Based Architecture
3 Lessons
- 1. Iceberg - Background and set up for Iceberg Demo
  Start
- 2. Iceberg Demo - CTAS, Create, Merge and Time Travel
  Start
- 3. Internals of Iceberg Table Structure - Part 1
  Start
Part 2: Schema Evolution, MERGE & Hidden Partitioning
3 Lessons
- 1. Internals of Iceberg Table Structure - Part 2
  Start
- 2. Schema Evolution - Iceberg and Traditional Method - Hive Table Format
  Start
- 3. Iceberg Hidden Partitioning - Optimizing Performance of User Queries
  Start
Part 3: Iceberg Table Optimization & Production Maintenance
3 Lessons
- 1. Iceberg Optimization - Compaction
  Start
- 2. Other Iceberg Optimization operations
  Start
- 3. Write Strategies for Batch Vs Streaming
  Start

Sachin Chandrashekhar

John Smith

Developer

Highly Recommended Course. Easy to Understand, Informative, Very Well Organized. The Course is Full of Practical and Valuable for Anyone who wants to Enhance their Skills. Really Enjoyed it. Thank you!!

RADE™ Apache Iceberg for Lakehouse Engineering

ACID Tables, Time Travel & Production-Grade Lakehouse Operations

Course Summary

What This Course Focuses On

Outcomes

Course Curriculum

Part 1: Iceberg Fundamentals & Snapshot-Based Architecture

Part 2: Schema Evolution, MERGE & Hidden Partitioning

Part 3: Iceberg Table Optimization & Production Maintenance

Sachin Chandrashekhar

John Smith

Highly Recommended Course. Easy to Understand, Informative, Very Well Organized. The Course is Full of Practical and Valuable for Anyone who wants to Enhance their Skills. Really Enjoyed it. Thank you!!

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