Cost‑Effective Real‑Time Data Warehouse 2.0: Migrating from Kafka to Iceberg
iQIYI transformed its real‑time data warehouse by replacing a costly Kafka‑based Lambda stack with a unified stream‑batch Iceberg lake, cutting storage expenses by 90%, halving compute costs, extending data retention, and delivering minute‑level freshness for 90% of use cases while preserving second‑level processing where needed.
