+1 from me, and thanks for volunteering to be the guinea pig. This is exactly the kind of content the blog has been missing. Release announcements tell people what shipped, while posts like this show them how to use it and how to get involved. The Comet/Iceberg-Rust angle does both, which is what makes it work.
I’ll dig into the PR this week. The part I’d especially keep is the user/developer perspective. A reader comes away with something they can try and a clear sense of where they could contribute. That feels like a format worth repeating. I’d love to see this become a small recurring series rather than a one-off, maybe something like “Iceberg Beyond the JVM.” Rust is a natural first entry, and I’d be happy to write the iceberg-go installment next. Happy to sync on a shared structure so the posts have a similar user story → developer story flow. But first and foremost, great work on this one. I hope it’s the first of many. Best, Andrei On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 2:20 PM Matt Butrovich <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Kevin Liu mentioned that there has been discussion within the community > about technical posts on the Iceberg blog (in addition to release > announcement), and encouraged me to be a guinea pig to discuss DataFusion > Comet and Iceberg Rust, both from user and developer perspectives. I opened > a PR on the repo, and would love to solicit as much feedback as possible > since this is a new type of post for the Iceberg blog. > > https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/17162 > > The PR also has a rendered preview attached to it, which I think I can > stably link to here > https://github.com/user-attachments/files/29923879/Accelerating.Apache.Spark.Queries.and.Iceberg.Rust.Development.with.Apache.DataFusion.Comet.pdf > > Thanks for any feedback you can provide! I'm hoping this is able to set a > precedent that others can follow to share how they're engaging with the > Iceberg community. > > -Matt >
