--- title: "Almost Time To Start Coding!" url: https://daily.dev/posts/almost-time-to-start-coding--xzatwavgq source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jULPA0JYmGk type: video:youtube source: "Jordan has no life" published: 2026-05-31T07:49:23.681Z updated: 2026-05-31T09:27:44.220Z reading_time: 14 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Almost Time To Start Coding! **[Jordan has no life](https://daily.dev/sources/jordan-has-no-life)** · 14 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer vents about frustrations with Apache Iceberg and similar open table formats (Delta Lake, Hudi), explaining their core architecture: parquet files on object storage, immutable metadata files, and a catalog system. Key pain points include write amplification from immutable metadata on every commit, expensive delete operations requiring separate delete files and compaction jobs, and the emerging anti-pattern of federating Iceberg tables with a separate OLTP database (losing unified catalog management). DuckLake is highlighted as a promising improvement that uses a PostgreSQL database for metadata instead of immutable files. The author outlines a side project idea to unify transactional databases, Kafka streams, and table formats under a single catalog with time travel support and multi-engine readability. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Apache Iceberg vs Delta Lake: Choosing the Right Table Format](https://daily.dev/posts/apache-iceberg-vs-delta-lake-choosing-the-right-table-format-vtnia2ems) · BigData Boutique blog · 7 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/almost-time-to-start-coding--xzatwavgq)