Google Summer of Code 2025 - Beam YAML, Kafka and Iceberg User Accessibility

The relatively new Beam YAML SDK was introduced in the spirit of making data processing easy, but it has gained little adoption for complex ML tasks and hasn’t been widely used with Managed I/O such as Kafka and Iceberg. As part of Google Summer of Code 2025, new illustrative, production-ready pipeline examples of ML use cases with Kafka and Iceberg data sources using the YAML SDK have been developed to address this adoption gap. Context The YAML SDK was introduced in Spring 2024 as Beam’s first no-code SDK.