There have been lots of social media posts declaring things to be dead - SQL, R, data engineering, BI, etc.

I give my thoughts on these proclamations, why it's a wrong way to think about our space, and more.

Jeroen Janssens and Thijs Nieuwdo join me to chat about all things Polars. We discuss the evolution of the Polars library, its advantages over pandas, and their journey of writing 'Python Polars: The Definitive Guide.'

In this episode, I rant and speculate about why small teams and companies are the future, AI native data architectures, why the future is awesome, and more.

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Regular guest Gordon Wong joins me to chat about the impact of AI on attention and expertise, product management, and much more.

In this episode, I ramble and speculate about what the next-generation data architectures look like.

Thanks for Keboola and GoodData for sponsoring this episode.

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Zhamak Dehghani (creator of Data Mesh, CEO of NextData) joins me to chat about what she thinks is next in data - autonomous data products, decentralized data and AI, and much more.

Zhamak is one of the people I most respect in our industry. She's a once-in-a generation phenomenon who will change the trajectory of our industry.

Matthew Scullion (CEO, Co-Founder of Matillion) joins me to chat about the future of data engineering, namely agentic data engineering teams.

What does this new world look like? Matthew shares some ideas of what he's building at Matillion, and the broader context of what agentic AI means for the data ecosystem, teams, and workflows.

Wrapping up the week at Snowflake Summit. As always, the big platform ate away at their partners. If you're a partner, what can you do to shield yourself from platform cannibalization? In this episode, I give some advice from what I've seen in the data ecosystem over the years.

Svetlana Tarnagurskaja (CEO of the Dot Collective) joins me to chat about her entrepreneurial journey in the data space, building a boutique data consultancy, competing with Big Consulting, the challenges of building a team, and the importance of creating a human-centric company culture.

The Dot Collective: https://www.thedotcollective.co.uk

Hannes Mühleisen shows off DuckLake and answers live questions.DuckLake: https://duckdb.org/2025/05/27/ducklake.html