Data Platforms
A lakehouse with Iceberg and Airflow — bronze, silver, gold
Why the three-tier lakehouse pattern works for replacing OLAP-on-OLTP, and what each tier actually does in practice.
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Iceberg lakehouse
bronze / silver / gold · 10–15 TB
Stub. Full post body to follow.
The bronze-silver-gold tiering pattern is more than a naming convention — it’s what lets a lakehouse serve both ML workloads and operational analytics from the same storage footprint without either workload stomping on the other. Bronze keeps the raw event shape, silver normalizes + dedupes, gold materializes business-facing facts.
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2026-04-28 · 7 min · DATA PLATFORMS
Why we replaced analytics on Mongo with StarRocks
What broke when analytical queries shared a tenant cluster with OLTP — and what moving to a real OLAP engine actually gave us.