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• 7 MIN READ•Apr 29, 2026

  How Data Lake Table Storage Degrades Over Time

  Iceberg tables degrade through small files, orphan files, metadata bloat, sort order decay, and partition skew. Here is how to diagnose each problem.

  Iceberg storage degradationsmall file problemorphan files
• 8 MIN READ•Apr 29, 2026

  Hash, Sort-Merge, Broadcast: How Distributed Joins Work

  Distributed joins move data across the network using shuffle, broadcast, or co-location strategies. Here is how each works and when engines choose which.

  distributed join algorithmsshuffle joinbroadcast join
• 7 MIN READ•Apr 29, 2026

  When Catalogs Are Embedded in Storage

  S3 Tables and MinIO AI Stor embed the Iceberg catalog directly in the storage layer. Here is when embedded catalogs make sense and when they do not.

  embedded Iceberg catalogS3 TablesMinIO AI Stor