How Tubular Labs reclaimed 50% of engineering capacity by rebuilding their 70TB pipeline on Apache Iceberg and Amazon S3 Tables

2026-09-09

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.