The Analytics Engineering Podcast

You don't have ICs anymore, you have managers (Emilie Schario)

Emilie Schario is co-founder and head of product and engineering at Kilo Code, the open-source, model-agnostic coding agent platform Anaconda acquired in July 2026. She j

The Roundup: The post-AI data stack, physical AI, and the fight over data centers

Four stories: The political fight over data centers, claims about a physical AI model, Ian Macomber on the shape of the post-AI data stack, and an update on the Hugging F

You can't scale vibes (Guy Podjarny)

Guy Podjarny has built developer tools three times over: Blaze (acquired by Akamai), Snyk, and now Tessl. He joins Tristan Handy to argue that skills need the same lifecy

Roundup: Why your sales team shouldn't query Gong directly

Tristan Handy and Jason Ganz are back for Roundup. This time: Stripe's $7 billion acquisition of OpenRouter, two new benchmarks showing data engineering agents are reliab

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

Jeremiah Lowin built FastMCP as a side project days after Anthropic announced the Model Context Protocol. It's now downloaded millions of times a day. He joins Tristan Ha

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

Something new. Tristan Handy is joined by Jason Ganz for the first Roundup, a recurring conversation about the stories moving the ecosystem right now. This time: the Open

Data lessons from inside Meta (Shridhar Iyer)

Shridhar Iyer spent more than 13 years inside Meta's data organization, most recently leading AI and the data stack. He joins Tristan Handy to talk about how deleting a s

The scarce resource is consensus (Ian Macomber)

The last time Ramp's Ian Macomber joined the show, the episode was titled, "Ramp's $8 billion data strategy." Ramp is now valued at $44 billion, and the data team's job h

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 actually rely on. For full show notes and to read the podca

DuckDB's agent moment (Jordan Tigani)

Jordan Tigani helped build BigQuery, then left to bet that most data isn't big. Three years on, agents are proving him right. The MotherDuck CEO joins Tristan Handy on wh

The Iceberg ecosystem today (w/ Anders Swanson)

Tristan sits down with Anders Swanson, a developer experience advocate at dbt Labs, to talk about the state of the Apache Iceberg ecosystem. They unpack the "open standar

Apache Iceberg and the catalog layer (w/ Russell Spitzer)

Tristan talks with Russell Spitzer, a PMC member of Apache Iceberg and principal engineer at Snowflake, about the evolution of open table formats and the catalog layer. T

AI and the data lake (w/ Lauren Anderson)

Tristan talks with Lauren Anderson, Senior Director for Okta's Enterprise Data Platform. Lauren shares how identity sits at the center of two seismic shifts in data—AI ag

Inside Snowflake's AI roadmap (w/ Chris Child)

Snowflake VP of Product Management Chris Child joins Tristan Handy to unpack Snowflake's AI roadmap and what it means for data teams. They discuss the evolution from Snow

Building a multimodal lakehouse for AI (w/ Chang She)

In this episode, Tristan Handy sits down with Chang She — a co-creator of Pandas and now CEO of LanceDB — to explore the convergence of analytics and AI engineering. Th

Agentic coding in analytics engineering (w/ Mikkel Dengsøe)

Tristan talks with Mikkel Dengsøe, co-founder at SYNQ, to break down what agentic coding looks like in analytics engineering. Mikkel walks through a hands-on project usin

Under the hood of Apache Iceberg (w/ Christian Thiel)

Tristan digs deep into the world of Apache Iceberg. There's a lot happening beneath the surface: multiple catalog interfaces, evolving REST specs, and competing implement

The pragmatic guide to AI agents in the enterprise (w/ Sean Falconer)

What does it mean to be agentic? Is there a spectrum of agency?  In this episode of The Analytics Engineering Podcast, Tristan Handy talks to Sean Falconer, senior dire

How Amazon S3 works (w/ Andy Warfield)

In this season of the Analytics Engineering podcast, Tristan is deep into the world of developer tools and databases. If you're following us here, you've almost definitel

From Docker to Dagger (w/ Solomon Hykes)

In this season of the Analytics Engineering podcast, Tristan is digging deep into the world of developer tools and databases. There are few more widely used developer too