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Parquet Was Never Enough: Why Your Raw Data Lake Is a Data Swamp Waiting to Happen

While Parquet excels at storage efficiency, it lacks transactional integrity. Open table formats like Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Hudi are increasingly seen as essential for reliable data pipelines by adding ACID compliance and schema evolution.

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The Death of Data Partitioning? Clustering Takes Over in Modern Data Lakes

Emerging shift from traditional data partitioning to clustering techniques in Delta Lake, Iceberg, Snowflake, and Databricks, and what it means for data engineering best practices.

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