The Analytics Engineering Podcast
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The Analytics Engineering Podcast

by dbt Labs, Inc.

Tristan Handy has been curating the Analytics Engineering Roundup newsletter since 2015, pulling together the internet's best data science & analytics articles.

Tristan and co-host Julia Schottenstein now bring the Roundup to real life, hosting biweekly conversations with data practitioners inventing the future of analytics engineering.

You can view full episode summaries and read back issues of the Roundup newsletter at https://roundup.getdbt.com.

The podcast is sponsored by dbt labs, makers of the data transformation framework dbt. To reach our team, drop a note to podcast@dbtlabs.com.

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1
The Iceberg ecosystem today (w/ Anders Swanson)
54:51 Mar 8, 2026
2
Apache Iceberg and the catalog layer (w/ Russell Spitzer)
53:29 Jan 25, 2026
3
AI and the data lake (w/ Lauren Anderson)
53:44 Jan 11, 2026
4
Inside Snowflake's AI roadmap (w/ Chris Child)
57:27 Dec 14, 2025
5
Building a multimodal lakehouse for AI (w/ Chang She)
56:58 Nov 23, 2025
6
Agentic coding in analytics engineering (w/ Mikkel Dengsøe)
44:20 Sep 7, 2025
7
Under the hood of Apache Iceberg (w/ Christian Thiel)
55:59 Aug 24, 2025
8
The pragmatic guide to AI agents in the enterprise (w/ Sean Falconer)
49:59 Aug 3, 2025
9
How Amazon S3 works (w/ Andy Warfield)
50:05 Jul 20, 2025
10
From Docker to Dagger (w/ Solomon Hykes)
48:50 Jun 22, 2025
11
The history and future of the data ecosystem (w/ Lonne Jaffe)
53:53 Jun 8, 2025
12
Everything terminals (w/ Zach Lloyd)
47:21 May 25, 2025
13
Why compilers matter (w/ Lukas Schulte)
41:59 May 11, 2025
14
The evolution of databases (w/ Wolfram Schulte)
54:17 Apr 27, 2025
15
Building a data team from the beginning (w/ Daniel Avancini)
50:12 Jan 26, 2025
16
Data engineering at Snowflake (w/ Rahul Jain)
44:04 Jan 12, 2025
17
The intersection of UI, exploratory data analysis, and SQL (w/ Hamilton Ulmer)
50:37 Dec 22, 2024
18
Making data movement as reliable as electricity (w/ Taylor Brown)
46:40 Dec 8, 2024
19
Data as an assembly line (w/ Cedric Chin)
51:11 Nov 17, 2024
20
The data jobs to be done (w/ Erik Bernhardsson)
42:55 Nov 3, 2024
21
Coalesce 2024 edition: What's next for data teams? (w/ Scott Breitenother)
44:23 Oct 20, 2024
22
The current state of the AI ecosystem (w/ Julia Schottenstein)
45:44 Oct 6, 2024
23
Creating value from GenAI in the enterprise (w/ Nisha Paliwal)
45:20 Sep 22, 2024
24
Developer productivity on GitHub Copilot (w/ Eirini Kalliamvakou)
53:59 Sep 8, 2024
25
The rapid experimentation of AI agents (w/ Yohei Nakajima)
45:55 Jun 9, 2024
26
Funnel analytics and AI models for event sequences (w/ Misha Panko)
44:09 May 26, 2024
27
From Moneyball to Gen AI
37:37 May 12, 2024
28
Being Pro-Human in the AI Era
50:09 Apr 21, 2024
29
The 2024 Machine Learning, AI & Data Landscape (w/ Matt Turk)
36:22 Apr 7, 2024
30
How the Media Covers Gen AI (w/ Matthew Lynley, Supervised)
48:15 Mar 24, 2024
31
AI's Impact in the World of Structured Data Analytics (w/ Juan Sequeda, data.world)
48:18 Mar 10, 2024
32
The End of the Modern Data Stack (w/ Benn Stancil, Mode)
45:46 Feb 25, 2024
33
Data Mesh Architecture at Large Enterprises (w/ Moritz Heimpel and Ben Flusberg)
46:07 Dec 8, 2023
34
Let's Talk About Data Vault (w/ Brandon Taylor and Michael Olschimke)
44:04 Nov 17, 2023
35
Navigating AI Complexity (w/ Jonathan Frankle)
46:20 Nov 3, 2023
36
Career Growth in Data Roles (w/ Hubspot's Kasey Mazza at Coalesce 2023)
29:17 Oct 20, 2023
37
Operationalizing Your Warehouse, Streaming Analytics, and Cereal (W/ Arjun Narayan of Materialize and Nathan Bean of General Mills)
42:23 Oct 6, 2023
38
Roche's Data Transformation Journey (w/ Yannick Misteli)
40:05 Sep 22, 2023
39
The State of Databases Today (w/ Andy Pavlo)
48:28 Sep 8, 2023
40
Bring Your Own Data to LLMs (W/ Jerry Liu of LlamaIndex)
42:53 Aug 25, 2023
41
Ramp's $8 Billion Data Strategy (W/ Ian Macomber and Ryan Delgado)
49:19 Aug 11, 2023
42
dbt Labs on dbt (w/ Daniel Le)
30:40 Jul 28, 2023
43
The Arc of Data Innovation (w/ Bob Muglia, former CEO of Snowflake)
47:59 Jul 12, 2023
44
It's 2023, and Privacy Is Now Fun! (w/ Ian Coe of Tonic.ai + Abhishek Bhowmick of Samooha)
47:39 Apr 21, 2023
45
Julia, Pedram Navid + Taylor Murphy Recap Data Council
42:03 Apr 7, 2023
46
Cloud Warehouse Cost Optimization (w/ Niall Woodward + Brad Culberson)
45:54 Mar 24, 2023
47
dbt Labs + Transform Join Forces on Metrics (w/ Nick Handel + Drew Banin)
43:09 Mar 10, 2023
48
What Can Generative AI Do for Data People? (W/ Sarah Nagy + Chris Aberger)
48:29 Feb 24, 2023
49
3rd Party Data, Demystified
45:26 Feb 10, 2023
50
A Romp Through Database History (w/ Postgres co-creator Mike Stonebraker + Andy Palmer)
47:44 Jan 27, 2023
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