I want to add an item for the next Iceberg Spark Sync as discussed with @Russell Spitzer.
Making Spark Readers Async - Presenter: Varun Lakhyani | Related: Github Issue (Spark related) <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/15287> , Github PR <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/15341>, Dev ML Thread <https://lists.apache.org/thread/b5jrlyv61lmw867kksw05sot2tro5ybn>, Design/POC Doc <https://docs.google.com/document/d/17vBz5t-gSDdmB0S40MYRceyvmcBSzw9Gii-FcU97Lds/edit?usp=sharing> - Short discussion on introducing optional asynchronous file opening in Spark readers to improve performance for workloads with many small files. Includes POC and benchmark results for compaction of multiple files.
