Stay ConnectedI’m Joe Reis, co-author of Fundamentals of Data Engineering, creator of Mixed Model Arts, international speaker, and long-time observer of the tech industry’s favorite recurring mistakes.
Weekly broadcasts from somewhere on the road. Expect raw solo rants and long-form conversations with the engineers and leaders actually building things. I dive into data, AI, architecture, and career survival.
This podcast is invitation-only. Unsolicited guest pitches and PR outreach are not considered.
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Is data modeling a waste of time? I meet a number of people who say it is. In this episode, I dissect some of the arguments against data modeling, and give reasons why it matters more than ever today.
Safiyy Momen and I chat about the good and bad of the Modern Data Stack, controlling cloud costs, boring engineering, and much more.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/safiyy-momen/
Gordon Wong and I chat about why most data teams aren't that valuable, and ways data teams can deliver more value.
Just got off the plane from Spain, and I'm quite jet lagged. Nonetheless, here's your Friday rant.
In this episode, I chat about an experience I had with someone telling me Python is a slow language. If you can't tell, I think programming language wars are dumb, and I give some reasons why.
Roman Yampolskiy is an AI safety researcher who's deeply concerned with the dangers of General Super Intelligence. We chat about why he doesn't think humanity has much time left, and what we can do about it.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/romanyam?lang=en
I'm sitting in the Amsterdam Airport (Schipol) and wrote some of my book on the flight over to Europe. In this episode, I'll talk briefly about my book writing process, and how it differs today from when I wrote Fundamentals of Data Engineering.
Jarod Santo and Adam Stacoviak from The Changelog join me for 1.5 hours of free-flowing chats about planned obscelescene, old school vs new school consumer tech, the XZ Backdoor incident, the job market doldrums (plus tips for finding work and starting a biz), and being unemployable.
Jarod and Adam are two of my favorite people to talk with, since we can literally chat about anything for hours. Enjoy!
Changelog: https://changelog.com/
In today's Practical Data Modeling group discussion, we chatted about how to get buy-in for data modeling. The question was intentionally vague, because context is key. I give some thoughts on this topic, and how you can generalize this to most situations where you need to get buy-in.
Practical Data Modeling: https://practicaldatamodeling.substack.com/
Vishnu Vasanth (e6Data) and I chat about what's next for analytical query engines, shifting left, the Indian tech scene, and much more.
Vishnu is very wise and has a very deep technical vision for where the industry needs to go. I very much agree with his vision. Enjoy!
e6Data: https://www.e6data.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishnu-vasanth-5329233/
There's the interview you think you're going to have, then there's the interview you get. This is one of those, in the best way possible. I expected to chat about his time at Snowflake. We didn't even get past his early days building data warehouses because it was so fascinating. Did you know Kent is arguably one of the very first practitioners (probably an accidental inventor) of DataOps?
This is sort of a "prequel" episode. Kent Graziano and I chat about his early days as a data practitioner.
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