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Google Cloud and Partners Commit to Apache Iceberg

🔁 Google Cloud and an ecosystem of partners — including Confluent, Databricks, dbt, Fivetran, Informatica, and Snowflake — reaffirm support for the open table format Apache Iceberg to power modern lakehouse architectures. The post highlights Google innovations such as BigLake and a REST Catalog API that unify metadata and enable interoperability across engines like BigQuery, Databricks, and Snowflake. The collaboration aims to reduce data silos, enable time travel and pruning, and accelerate AI-ready analytics.