Community feedback session: Iceberg catalogs, revisited
You're invited
Want to help shape the future of dbt? Join dbt Labs engineers and product folks for an informal community feedback session where we'll share the problem space, where we're headed, and open it up for whatever comes up. It's casual, fun, and impactful. Come with questions, opinions, and skepticism.
These sessions are one of the best ways to give back to the dbt community and have a real say in what gets built — many dbt features have been shaped directly by conversations like this one. Past sessions have covered microbatch incremental models, the dbt Core 1.11 release, and other major features.
Prerequisites: Attendees should be familiar with Iceberg at a high level, but not experts. Give the full proposal a read ahead of time: dbt-core#12723: Iceberg catalogs, revisited.
What we're proposing
A lot of work has gone into Iceberg support in dbt — nearly every adapter has it built in, and the catalogs.yml construct abstracts away much of the nuance of working with different catalogs across platforms. But we think it can be easier to use, more future-proof, and better suited to the cross-platform workflows that Iceberg makes possible. We have a proposal and a demo to share — and we need your feedback.