The Analytics Engineering Roundup

Agentic coding in analytics engineering (w/ Mikkel Dengsøe)

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

Sep 7 • 

Dan Poppy

25

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 • 

Dan Poppy

13

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 • 

Dan Poppy

14

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 • 

Dan Poppy

9

June 2025

It is time to take agentic workflows for data work seriously

Mission: 0 to semantic layer in two hours

Jun 29 • 

Jason Ganz

50

7

From Docker to Dagger (w/ Solomon Hykes)

The creator of Docker on how containers changed everything

Jun 22 • 

Dan Poppy

6

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

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

Jun 8 • 

Dan Poppy

11

May 2025

Everything terminals (w/ Zach Lloyd)

The universal integration layer...the command line? Tristan talks terminals with Zach Lloyd, the founder of Warp

May 25 • 

Dan Poppy

7

Why compilers matter (w/ Lukas Schulte)

We continue our season on developer experience by looking at compilers with the SDF Labs cofounder.

May 12 • 

Dan Poppy

12

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April 2025

The evolution of databases (w/ Wolfram Schulte)

In the first episode of our season on developer experience, the cofounder and CTO of SDF Labs, now a part of dbt Labs, discusses databases, compilers…

Apr 28 • 

Dan Poppy

11

A New Kind of Weird

Reflections on Data Council 2025

Apr 27 • 

Jason Ganz

14

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How AI will Disrupt BI As We Know It

A continuation-in-spirit from my recent post “How AI will Disrupt Data Engineering As We Know It.”

Apr 6 • 

Tristan Handy

77

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