AI Data Platform Series: bronze vs. silver
This is a short detour in the AI Data Platform series, sitting between "Silver Layer: Spark Structured Streaming" (stage 3, link to be added once that post is live) and the upcoming gold layer post. Every table in this series so far has only ever been queried from inside an AIDP Workbench notebook. This time I wanted to connect a plain SQL client, DBeaver, straight to the cluster over JDBC, and use it to look at bronze and silver side by side: same underlying event, two very different shapes. Along the way, DBeaver's own table-metadata commands surfaced something I'd walked past without really registering back in the bronze post: both tables are already readable as Apache Iceberg tables, no extra work required.