The Analytics Engineering Podcast

Will the dream of a mythical database to handle all workloads (transactional + analytical) ever become a reality, or does it violate the laws of physics?

This question sparked a hearty debate interna…

Ashley makes unique connections in her writing and work. On her Substack, "syntax error at or nea…

In this very special episode, we’ll be turning the spotlight on co-host Tristan Handy, the CEO & Co-founder of dbt Labs.

In this AMA with Julia, you’ll get to know more about Tristan as a human, as a…

Your company has one definition for revenue across the organization, one definition of the customer, and one definition of sign-up. For people whose jobs are so defined by ensuring we’re aligned, we …

How is the data landscape evolving, what trends should you pay attention to and which should you ignore?

In this panel, Julia Schottenstein (our fearless co-host and dbt Labs product manager) catches…

In this talk, former podcast guest Benn Stancil walks through what he believe the next evolution of the modern data stack should look like - and more importantly, how those who use it should experien…

Where does Snowflake go from here? What meta trends and technologies play into that vision? How does that impact the world of data analytics?

Christian and Tristan have no shortage of opinions or ide…

Reynold Xin is a technical co-founder and Chief Architect at Databricks. He’s also a co-creator and the top contributor to the Apache Spark project.

In this casual conversation with Drew Banin, co-fo…

The modern data stack is the third generation of data analysis products to come to prominence since the 90's. The prior waves—data warehouse appliances and then Hadoop—were both big steps forwards bu…

What is it like to build a data team for a company in the data space?

This talk is centered around how dbt Labs is building their data team. We will cover how our team is structured, how we operate a…

As a product leader at companies like Heroku and Zendesk, DeVaris specialized in building infrastructure-grade products. Currently, as the CEO of Meroxa, he enables teams to build real-time data infr…

David is Sr. Director of Data at Lyst, and as leader of their analytics + data science teams he has followed the evolution of data roles closely over the past decade.

David spends a lot of time think…

Julien has a unique history of building open frameworks that make data platforms interoperable. He’s contributed in various ways to Apache Arrow, Apache Iceberg, Apache Parquet, and Marquez, and is c…

Benn is Chief Analytics Officer and a Co-founder at Mode Analytics, but you may know him from his Substack newsletter (benn.substack.com), where each Friday he dives into a semi-controversial topic (…

Seth Rosen has broken data Twitter many times, and in his early-fatherhood sleep deprivation developed a wonderful Twitter persona as the battle-tested data analyst.

IRL though Seth is a serious data…

Brittany Bennett is Data Director at Sunrise Movement, the youth climate movement that numbers tens of thousands of members throughout every US state. 

Given how quickly our industry moves, developin…

Caitlin Colgrove is Co-founder & CTO at Hex, a data workspace that allows teams to collaborate in both SQL and Python to publish interactive data apps.

In this conversation, Tristan, Julia and Caitli…

Erik Bernhardsson spent six years at Spotify, where he contributed to the first version of the music recommendation system. After a stint as CTO at Better.com, he’s now working on building new infras…

In this episode, we're going to do something a little different, and turn the spotlight on co-host Julia Schottenstein.

In this conversation with Tristan, you'll get to know Julia a bit—from her earl…

Brian Amadio is a Data Platform Engineer at Stitch Fix, where experimentation underpins everything they do across merchandising, planning, forecasting, operations and more. 

In this conversation with…