Building a Real‑Time Data Warehouse with Apache Flink and Apache Iceberg: Architecture, Challenges, and Best Practices
This article presents Tencent's practical experience of constructing a real‑time data warehouse by integrating Apache Flink with Apache Iceberg, covering background pain points of traditional Lambda architectures, Iceberg's table format and capabilities, Flink‑Iceberg sink design, small‑file handling, and future roadmap for a unified streaming‑batch data lake.