Data Engineering Weekly
Episodes
Knowledge, Metrics, and AI: Rethinking the Semantic Layer with David Jayatillake
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Semantic layers have been with us for decades—sometimes buried inside BI tools, living in analysts’ heads. But as data complexity grows and AI pus...
Insights from Jacopo Tagliabue, CTO of Bauplan: Revolutionizing Data Pipelines with Functional Data Engineering
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Data Engineering Weekly recently hosted Jacopo Tagliabue, CTO of Bauplan, for an insightful podcast exploring innovative solutions in data engineering...
AI and Data in Production: Insights from Avinash Narasimha [AI Solutions Leader at Koch Industries]
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of Data Engineering Weekly, co-hosted by Aswin, we explored the practical realities of AI deployment and data readiness with our...
Is Apache Iceberg the New Hadoop? Navigating the Complexities of Modern Data Lakehouses
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The modern data stack constantly evolves, with new technologies promising to solve age-old problems like scalability, cost, and data silos. Apache Ice...
The State of Lakehouse Architecture: A Conversation with Roy Hassan on Maturity, Challenges, and Future Trends
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lakehouse architecture represents a major evolution in data engineering. It combines data lakes' flexibility with data warehouses' structured reliabil...
Beyond Kafka: Conversation with Jark Wu on Fluss - Streaming Storage for Real-Time Analytics
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fluss is a compelling new project in the realm of real-time data processing. I spoke with Jark Wu, who leads the Fluss and Flink SQL team at Alibaba ...
The Future of Data Lakehouses: A Fireside Chat with Vinoth Chandar - Founder CEO Onehouse & PMC Chair of Apache Hudi
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the Evolution of Lakehouse Technology: A Conversation with Vinoth Chandar and Onehouse CEOIn this episode, Ananth, author of Data Engineerin...
Agents of Change: Navigating 2025 with AI and Data Innovation
29 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Agents of Change: Navigating 2025 with AI and Data InnovationIn this episode of Dew, the hosts and guests discuss their predictions for 2025, focusing...
Data Engineering Trends With Aswin & Ananth
25 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another insightful edition of Data Engineering Weekly. As we approach the end of 2023, it's an opportune time to reflect on the key trends ...
DEW #133: How to Implement Write-Audit-Publish (WAP), Vector Database - Concepts and examples & Data Warehouse Testing Strategies for Better Data Quality
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of Data Engineering Weekly. Aswin and I select 3 to 4 articles from each edition of Data Engineering Weekly and discuss the...
DEW #132: The New Generative AI Infra Stack, Databricks cost management at Coinbase, Exploring an Entity Resolution Framework Across Various Use Cases & What's the hype behind DuckDB?
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of Data Engineering Weekly. Aswin and I select 3 to 4 articles from each edition of Data Engineering Weekly and discuss the...
DEW #131: dbt model contract, Instacart ads modularization in LakeHouse Architecture, Jira to automate Glue tables, Server-Side Tracking
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of Data Engineering Weekly. Aswin and I select 3 to 4 articles from each edition of Data Engineering Weekly and discuss the...
DEW #129: DoorDash's Generative AI, Europe data salary, Data Validation with Great Expectations, Expedia's Event Sourcing
27 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of Data Engineering Weekly. Aswin and I select 3 to 4 articles from each edition of Data Engineering Weekly and discuss the...
DEW #124: State of Analytics Engineering, ChatGPT, LLM & the Future of Data Consulting, Unified Streaming & Batch Pipeline, and Kafka Schema Management
29 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of Data Engineering Weekly. Aswin and I select 3 to 4 articles from each edition of Data Engineering Weekly and discuss the...
DEW 123: Generative AI at BuzzFeed, Building OnCall Culture & Dimensional Modeling at WhatNot
22 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of Data Engineering Weekly Radio. Ananth and Aswin discussed a blog from BuzzFeed that shares lessons learned from building...
Podcast: dbt Reimagined, Change Data Capture @ Brex, on Data Products and how to describe them
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
DBT Reimagined by Pedram NavidThe challenge with this, having the Jinja templating, I found out two things. One is like; it is on runtime. So you have...
What Happened at Data Council 2023?
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hey folks, have you heard about the Data Council conference in Austin? The three-day event was jam-packed with exciting discussions and innovative ide...
Podcast: Analysis on MAD [Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & Data] Landscape
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Data Engineering Weekly Radio, we delve into modern data stacks under pressure and the potential consolidation of the data industry...
Podcast: Data Product @ Oda, Reflection Talking with Data Leaders & Great Migration To Snowflake
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are back in our Data Engineering Weekly Radio for edition #121. We will take 2 or 3 articles from each week's Data Engineering Weekly edition and g...
Data Engineering Weekly Radio #120
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are back in our Data Engineering Weekly Radio for edition #120. We will take 2 or 3 articles from each week's Data Engineering Weekly edition and g...
Podcast: Data Engineering Weekly #119
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are super excited to be back to discussing Data Engineering Weekly Newsletter articles every week. We will take 2 or 3 articles from each week's Da...