How to create a GDPR-compliant Iceberg Lakehouse

Before open table formats became popular, European tech companies had two options for implementing GDPR compliance on their data: Moving all data to the warehouse to delete some when necessary. Implementing a data retention policy in the data lake using the lifecycle to delete all data after a certain amount of time.

In this talk, I will introduce the Lakehouse architecture and explain how to design and implement an Iceberg Lakehouse for your data to reduce costs and increase throughput while maintaining GDPR compliance.