The Analytics Engineering Podcast
1) 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 agents and the open data lake—an...Show More
2) 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 Snowpark to Cortex and Snowflake ...Show More
3) 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. The team at LanceDB is rebuilding ...Show More
4) 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 using Cursor, the dbt MCP server, ...Show More
5) 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 implementations across open source, pro...Show More
6) 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 director of AI strategy at Confluent...Show More
7) 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 definitely used Amazon S3 it and its Bl...Show More
8) 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 tools than Docker. From its launc...Show More
9) The history and future of the data ecosystem (w/ Lonne Jaffe)
In this decades-spanning episode, Tristan Handy sits down with Lonne Jaffe, Managing Director at Insight Partners and former CEO of Syncsort (now Precisely), to trace the history of the data ecosystem...Show More
10) Everything terminals (w/ Zach Lloyd)
In this episode, Tristan talks to Zach Lloyd, founder of Warp—a terminal built for the modern era, including for AI agents. They explore the history of terminals, differences between terminals and she...Show More