The Analytics Engineering Roundup

Don't hand a bazooka to an agent making a sandwich (Jeremiah Lowin)

The creator of FastMCP on why a skill file is a polite note, why enterprises pick MCP over CLIs, and why nobody is ready for a context layer yet.

Aug 13 • Dan Poppy

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Roundup: a rogue agent, Kimi K3, and data teams in the AI era

We're introducing a new, recurring podcast format. Jason Ganz joins Tristan to take on stories of the day.

Aug 6 • Dan Poppy

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July 2026

Data lessons from inside Meta (Shridhar Iyer)

Shridhar Iyer spent 13 years inside Meta's data organization. He joins Tristan on what big tech takes for granted, why you never delete a column at…

Jul 30 • Dan Poppy

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The scarce resource is consensus (Ian Macomber)

When building data artifacts is fast and cheap, the scarce resource is company-wide consensus. Ramp's Ian Macomber returns to talk about post-AI data…

Jul 16 • Dan Poppy

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The context engineering playbook (Claire Gouze)

nao co-founder and CEO Claire Gouze shares a practical playbook for building a context layer your agents can rely on.

Jul 2 • Dan Poppy

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June 2026

DuckDB's agent moment (Jordan Tigani)

The database built for your laptop turns out to be one built for your agents. MotherDuck Founder and CEO Jordan Tigani explains why.

Jun 18 • Dan Poppy

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March 2026

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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