Building Real-Time Data Lakes with Spring Boot, Flink CDC 3.0 & Iceberg: Production Patterns
This article details migrating from a legacy Canal+Kafka+Flink+Hive stack to a modern Flink CDC + Iceberg real-time data lake, covering Spring Boot orchestration, chunk-based full/incremental sync, Interval Join for wide tables, automated schema evolution, hidden partitioning, Exactly-Once checkpoint tuning, and Kubernetes deployment practices.
