This ebook provides an authoritative deep dive into Delta Lake, the open-source storage layer that brings reliability, performance, and governance to data lakes. It explains how Delta Lake enables ACID transactions, scalable metadata handling, time travel, and schema enforcement on top of cloud object storage. The book walks through architectural concepts, design patterns, and operational best practices for building reliable analytics and AI workloads. Practical examples show how Delta Lake simplifies batch and streaming pipelines while improving data quality and consistency. Written for data engineers and architects, the guide establishes Delta Lake as a foundational component of the modern lakehouse architecture.

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