HOW TUBULAR LABS RECLAIMED 50% OF ENGINEERING CAPACITY BY REBUILDING THEIR 70TB PIPELINE ON APACHE ICEBERG AND AMAZON S3 TABLES

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Tubular Labs rebuilt a 70TB analytics pipeline handling roughly 2 billion row updates per day around Apache Spark, Iceberg, and Amazon S3 Tables. Infrastructure-related recovery time fell from 12–16 hours to about 40 minutes, while multi-billion-row pipelines that previously required 6–8 hours now finish end-to-end in under two hours.