The Open Handshake: Scaling Multi-Cloud Delivery via Delta Sharing and Iceberg

Client demand is shifting. They don’t want our data; they want it in their platform. We solved the “Vendor Lock-in” crisis by building an Open Data Passport. This session deconstructs how we leveraged Delta Sharing and Apache Iceberg UniForm to deliver high-scale healthcare products to clients without moving a single byte of raw data. We’ll share the engineering “scars” of managing cross-cloud permissions and how we turned an interoperability headache into a competitive product advantage for our global ecosystem.

Demo: A live cross-platform “handshake” between a Databricks source and a non-Databricks consumer with zero ETL.

Takeaways:

• Architecting zero-copy delivery via Delta Sharing
• Managing multi-platform governance
• Building vendor-agnostic data products