The Analytics Engineering Roundup

What data agent benchmarks do and don't tell us

And more from AI Council

May 17 • Jason Ganz

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The computers talk to us now

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

May 10 • Jason Ganz

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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

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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

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Five things I believe about the future of analytics

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

Apr 19 • Tristan Handy

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2

How to Actually Move Up the Stack

A handbook for interesting times

Apr 12 • Jason Ganz

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

The time dbt automated my job away

Apr 5 • Jason Ganz

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March 2026

Agent Skills: Disseminating Expertise

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

Mar 30 • Tristan Handy

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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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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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