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🎧 🆕 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.
You don't have ICs anymore, you have managers (Emilie Schario)
The co-founder of Kilo Code, acquired by Anaconda this summer, on why she thinks data people are better positioned than software engineers to manage a…
 • Dan Poppy
Roundup: The post-AI data stack, physical AI, and the fight over data centers
The political fight over data centers, the shape of the post-AI data stack, claims of physical AI, and an update on the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident.
 • Dan Poppy
You can't scale vibes (Guy Podjarny)
The co-founder of Tessl on why skills need the same lifecycle as code and why most companies will end up owning their own harness instead of renting…
 • Dan Poppy
Roundup: Why your sales team shouldn't query Gong directly
Tristan is joined again by Jason Ganz. This time: Stripe's $7 billion acquisition of OpenRouter, the AI bubble, new benchmarks that say data engineering…
 • Dan Poppy
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.
 • Dan Poppy
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.
 • Dan Poppy
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…
 • Dan Poppy
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