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by emmawirt 134 days ago
yeah you're totally right, good catch. S3 has been strongly consistent since 2020. That weakens the specific framing but the broader point about Iceberg's design assumptions still holds: the architecture was built for a world of eventual consistency and massive concurrent writes, and a lot of that complexity doesn't disappear just because S3 improved. But I should have been more precise there, appreciate the correction.