The Analytics Engineering Roundup

The Iceberg ecosystem today (Anders Swanson)

What can data teams realistically expect when attempting to run on top of Iceberg in production?

Mar 8 • Dan Poppy

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January 2026

Apache Iceberg and the catalog layer (w/ Russell Spitzer)

Everything you ever wanted to know about open table formats with a member of Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris

Jan 25 • Dan Poppy

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AI agents and the data lake (w/ Lauren Anderson)

The head of Okta's enterprise data platform on why central governance and the semantic layer are so essential

Jan 11 • Dan Poppy

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December 2025

Inside Snowflake’s AI roadmap (w/ Chris Child)

Snowflake's VP of Product Management on the vision for open table formats, governed agents, and the future of the data engineer

Dec 14, 2025 • Dan Poppy

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November 2025

Building a multimodal lakehouse for AI (w/ Chang She)

The CEO of LanceDB and Tristan go deep into the bridge between analytics and AI engineering

Nov 23, 2025 • Dan Poppy

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September 2025

Agentic coding in analytics engineering (w/ Mikkel Dengsøe)

The cofounder of SYNQ discusses his tests (and tips) with agentic coding tools

Sep 7, 2025 • Dan Poppy

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August 2025

Under the hood of Apache Iceberg (w/ Christian Thiel)

The cofounder of Lakekeeper walks Tristan through the state of the Iceberg ecosystem

Aug 24, 2025 • Dan Poppy

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The pragmatic guide to AI agents in the enterprise (w/ Sean Falconer)

Demystifying AI agents with Confluent's senior director of AI strategy

Aug 3, 2025 • Dan Poppy

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July 2025

How Amazon S3 works (w/ Andy Warfield)

Go under the hood of Amazon S3 with AWS engineering leader Andy Warfield—from virtualization to Iceberg

Jul 20, 2025 • Dan Poppy

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June 2025

It is time to take agentic workflows for data work seriously

Mission: 0 to semantic layer in two hours

Jun 29, 2025 • Jason Ganz

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From Docker to Dagger (w/ Solomon Hykes)

The creator of Docker on how containers changed everything

Jun 22, 2025 • Dan Poppy

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The history and future of the data ecosystem (w/ Lonne Jaffe)

Mainframes, relational databases, ETL, Hadoop, the cloud, and all of it

Jun 8, 2025 • Dan Poppy

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