Archive - The Analytics Engineering Roundup

Hunting for Tokens. Snowflake Summit. Agent Use Cases.

Things are not quieting down for the summer, that's for sure.

Jun 7 • Tristan Handy

May 2026

I built a (very small) long running agent

What do long running agents mean for data teams?

May 31 • Jason Ganz

I built a (very small) agent swarm.

What does the term 'agent swarm' mean? Is it bullshit? Can I build one?

May 26 • Tristan Handy

What data agent benchmarks do and don't tell us

And more from AI Council

May 17 • Jason Ganz

The computers talk to us now

It’s very easy to get lost in the details.

May 10 • Jason Ganz

BI’s Second Unbundling

Software engineering started eating data a decade+ ago; it just took a little while to get to the presentation layer.

May 3 • Tristan Handy

April 2026

A Dispatch from the Jagged Frontier of Analytics Engineering

We’ve been very big picture over the last several roundups.

Apr 26 • Jason Ganz

Five things I believe about the future of analytics

...and 4 conclusions I draw as a result.

Apr 19 • Tristan Handy

How to Actually Move Up the Stack

A handbook for interesting times

Apr 12 • Jason Ganz

Moving Up the Stack: Analytics Engineering in the Age of Agents

The time dbt automated my job away

Apr 5 • Jason Ganz

March 2026

Agent Skills: Disseminating Expertise

I'll never look at a repo full of markdown files the same way.

Mar 30 • Tristan Handy

SQL, Typescript, and Agents

How SQL’s Typescript moment will help agents just as much as it’ll help humans.

Mar 22 • Tristan Handy

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