Tuning and optimizing delta tables in a lakehouse can seem like a daunting task. Pipelines can start to slow down over time without reason. Unlike traditional relational databases, where you could set an index and forget it, Delta tables introduce new challenges. You are now dealing with an ever-growing number of parquet files stitched together by JSON files in your "_delta_log" folder and a few checkpoint files consolidating the changes every so often. The beauty of writing
