Iceberg Won The Format War - Now Comes The Hard Part
devops.com, Monday, March 30th, 2026
Apache Iceberg has effectively won the open table format conversation. AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Snowflake, Databricks - every major platform has thrown its weight behind it.
If you work in data engineering or platform operations, the question is no longer whether Iceberg is the right foundation. It's what it actually takes to run it day to day.
That second question doesn't get nearly enough airtime. And it's the one that determines whether your Iceberg adoption goes well or becomes a slow-motion infrastructure project that nobody budgeted for.