The Analytics Engineering Roundup

🎧 🆕 The Analytics Engineering Podcast

Conversations with data practitioners inventing the future of analytics engineering. The podcast is hosted by Tristan Handy and published biweekly along with each edition of the Roundup newsletter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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