Deep-Dive into Delta Lake (with Gerhard Brueckl)

Stream Date 📅

April 24 2025 at 9:30 AM (PT)

DESCRIPTION 📄

Delta Lake is becoming a defacto-standard for data lakes in Microsoft Azure. It is the default storage format used by Microsoft Fabric as well as Azure Databricks, it's two main analytical processing engines. But what is behind it? How does it work under the hood?

In this session you will learn how Delta Lake works internally and how the transaction log solves common issues that existed with traditional systems like Hive.

GUEST BIO (Gerhard Brueckl) 👤

Gerhard has been working with the Microsoft Data Platform for almost 20 years. From building traditional BI/DWH solution on the MSSQL server stack to designing and implementing whole data platforms hosted in the Microsoft Azure cloud. He is also familiar with OSS technologies in that area like Hadoop, Spark and Delta Lakes. When not working on customer projects, Gerhard is an active member in the community and shares his knowledge in his blog, speaks at conferences and meet-ups and develops Open Source tools for VSCode.