Migrating to Apache Iceberg: Strategies for Every Source System
The article discusses strategies for migrating to Apache Iceberg, focusing on three main approaches. It emphasizes the importance of incremental migration to avoid disruption for existing data consumers. The recommended method for production systems is the shadow migration with a view swap pattern.
- ▪The article is part 15 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass.
- ▪Three migration strategies are discussed: in-place migration, full rewrite, and shadow migration.
- ▪The shadow migration method allows for zero downtime during the transition.
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