Data Engineering Central Podcast

In this episode, I sit down with Scott Haines — O’Reilly author, Databricks MVP, and veteran of Yahoo, Nike, and Twilio — for a wide-ranging conversation on the real state of modern data engineering. We dig into open-source ecosystems, Lakehouse architectures, the evolution of Spark, streaming, what’s broken and what’s working in today’s data tooling, and the lessons Scott has learned scaling plat...

Hello! A new episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast is dropping today. We will be covering a few hot topics! * Cluster Fatigue * The Death of Open Source Going to be a great show, come along for the ride! Thanks for reading Data Engineering Central! This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dataengineeringcentral.substack.com Hello! A new episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast is dropping today, we will be covering a few hot topics! * Apache Iceberg Catalogs * new Boring Catalog * new full Iceberg support from Databricks/Unity Catalog * Databricks SQL Scripting * DuckDB coming to a Lake House near you * Lakebase f...

Hello, my fair-weathered friends and readers! I am gone on vacation this week with my family, probably at this moment lying in the sand on a beach ( Lord willing the creek don’t rise ), not thinking of you all. Anywho, be that as it may, I didn’t want you to miss my pretty face, so here is a video of me ranting about Apache Iceberg, something I’ve had a lot of practice doing and enjoy quite thorou...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dataengineeringcentral.substack.com It’s time for another episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast. In this episode, we cover … * Rust-based tool called UV to replace pip and poetry etc * Apache X-Table and the Future of the Lake House * How is AI going to affect you? Thanks for being a consumer of Data Engineering Central; your...

It’s time for another episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast. In this episode, we cover … * AWS Lambda + DuckDB and Delta Lake (Polars, Daft, etc). * IAC - Long Live Terraform. * Databricks Data Quality with DQX. * Unity Catalog releases for DuckDB and Polars * Bespoke vs Managed Data Platforms * Delta Lake vs. Iceberg and UinFORM for a single table. Thanks for b… This is a public episode...

In todays episode of Data Engineering Central Podcast we talk about a few hot topics, AWS S3 Tables, Databricks raising money, are Data Contracts Dead, and the Lake House Storage Format battle! It's a good one, buckle up! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/subscribe

It’s time for another episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast. In this episode we cover … * Apache Airflow vs Databricks Workflows * End-of-Year Engineering Planning for 2025 * 10 Billion Row Challenge with DuckDB vs Daft vs Polars * Raw Data Ingestion. As usual, the full episode is available to paid subscribers, and a shortened version to you free loaders out there, don’t worry, I still l...

It’s time for another episode of Data Engineering Central Podcast, our third one! Topics in this episode … * Should you use DuckDB or Polars? * Small Engineering Changes (PR Reviews) * Daft vs Spark on Databricks with Unity Catalog (Delta Lake) * Primary and Foreign keys in the Lake House Enjoy! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus e...

Welcome to the Data Engineering Central Podcast —— a no-holds-barred discussion on the Data Landscape. Welcome to Episode 02 In today’s episode, we will talk about the following topics from the Data Engineering perspective … * Using OpenAI’s o1 Model to do Data Engineering work * Lord Save us from more ETL tools * Rust for the small things * Hosted (SaaS) vs Build This is a public episode. If you'...

Welcome to the Data Engineering Central Podcast —— a no-holds-barred discussion on the Data Landscape. Welcome to Episode 01 In today’s episode we will talk about the following topics from the Data Engineering perspective … * Snowflake vs Databricks. * Is Apache Spark being replaced?? * Notebooks in Production. Bad. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or...