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Zach Dischner

Author: Zach Dischner

Zach Dischner is a Senior Software Engineer in Amazon Advertising, specializing in all things big data. He works on cutting edge Iceberg-based data lakes and applications and enjoys building highly scalable solutions on AWS. Outside of work he is an avid audiobook consumer and loves to travel, with a bent towards kitesurfing and mountain biking destinations.

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How Amazon Ads uses Iceberg optimizations to accelerate their Spark workload on Amazon S3

In today’s data-driven business landscape, organizations are increasingly relying on massive data lakes to store, process, and analyze vast amounts of information. However, as these data repositories grow to petabyte scale, a key challenge for businesses is implementing transactional capabilities on their data lakes efficiently. The sheer volume of data requires immense computational power and […]