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• Connect with Upsolver on LinkedIn.

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• Engage with Upsolver on Facebook.

• Post your questions on the Upsolver Community Slack channel.

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⭐ Apache Iceberg Community ⭐

• Follow the Chill Data Summit page on LinkedIn to learn about upcoming events and all things Apache Iceberg.

• The CDS team is on tour this summer, starting in San Francisco in August!! Check in out.

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Online Events

📆 July 2024

A Lakehouse future without Tabular. What does it mean for you?

LIVE Experts Panel | July 31th | 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm GMT

The Apache Iceberg table format is one of the most disruptive innovations in recent years to how engineers and systems store, manage and access data.

At the end of July, 2024, Databricks will finalize their acquisition of Tabular, the leading managed Iceberg company, illustrating the classic “If You Can’t Beat Them, Buy Them” strategy. This leaves executives, engineers and tool vendors unsure of:

• What happens next to the Apache Iceberg project and its adopters?

• Will one vendor dominate the future roadmap of the project?

• Will Databricks continue to sell the Tabular product or phase it out?

• How well will Iceberg and Delta Lake interoperate?

Our panel of experts includes: Brian Оlsen, Former Head of Developer Relations @ Tabular, Ben Castleton, Former Cofounder & Strategic Advisor @ Great Expectations

📢 Limited Seats Alert! 📢 This virtual event has limited seating. Don't miss your chance to join in this workshop to learn how to build your first data lakehouse. Register today for your place.

📆 August 2024

Getting Started with Snowflake Polaris and Iceberg Tables

A Technical Walkthrough | August 7th | 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm GMT

Polaris Catalog is an open-source catalog for Apache Iceberg that maximizes organizations ability to achieve interoperability between different engines, minimizing complexity and storage costs while avoiding vendor lock-in.

In this hands-on tutorial, we will guide you through the essentials of setting up, ingesting, and querying an Iceberg-based lakehouse using Polaris Catalog on Snowflake.

What you will learn:.

• Getting started with Polaris: Learn how to configure Polaris to work with an existing or brand new lakehouse on AWS.

• Ingesting data into Iceberg tables managed by Polaris: Learn how to connect to Polaris and load data from popular sources into Iceberg tables.

• Optimize Iceberg tables cataloged by Polaris: Explore techniques to optimize your Iceberg tables cataloged by Polaris to improve query performance and storage efficiency.

• Manage retention and table hygiene: Learn how to automate table clean up and data retention with Polaris by expiring snapshots and removing orphaned files to maintain a healthy and compliant data lakehouse.

• Observability into Data Quality and Job Performance: See how Iceberg metadata can provide invaluable insights into data quality, table health and optimization effectiveness, enabling your data operations to run smoothly and effectively.

📢 Limited Seats Alert! 📢 This virtual event has limited seating. Don't miss your chance to join in this workshop to learn how to build your first data lakehouse. Register today for your place.

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Event Replays

• How to Choose a Catalog for Your Iceberg Lakehouse

• Iceberg Performance Benchmark Comparison

• Migrating Hive Tables to Iceberg - A Hands-on Walkthrough

• Data Engineering Architecture: Optimizing For Cost Efficiency

• How to Build and Query Your First Iceberg Lakehouse on AWS: Hands-on Tutorial

• Building Iceberg Lakehouse with Spark and Upsolver: Technical Deep Dive

• Product Insights at Scale: ZeroETL ingestion from PostgreSQL to Iceberg Lakehouse

• Lakehouse vs. Data Lake: Ideal Uses Cases and Architectural Considerations

• Data Lake to Snowflake Migration: A Hands-On Walkthrough

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Conferences & Meetups

✨ Chill Data Summit on Tour 2024 ✨

The Chill Data Summit hits the round this August, starting in San Francisco

Apache Iceberg at your doorstep: Learn, grow, collaborate

Iceberg knowledge sharing

The Chill Data Summit provides an opportunity to learn Apache Iceberg from project committers and industry users. Featuring talks, hands-on workshops, and networking—all in a non-commercial, collaborative environment.

Getting hands-on

CDS on tour doubles down on instructional and peer-to-peer learning. In addition to keynotes from experts, get hands-on training from distinguished engineers where you'll build an optimized, production grade Iceberg lakehouse to support your business use cases.

• Tour stops include:

  • San Francisco Bay Area | August 15, 2024

  • London, UK | September 17, 2024

  • Tel Aviv, Israel | September 25, 2024

  • Chicago, IL | October 24, 2024

  • New York City, NY | November 6, 2024

Register your spot: Chill Data Summit on Tour