The Joe Reis Show

Does today's use of AI coding agents remind you of a drunken high school or college party? Just like people discovering drugs and alcohol for the first time, I feel like the tech and data industry is in a similar place. "Just vibe..." is the mantra now. But when I talk with developers and data practitioners in private, I get different vibes. There's definitely a concern that we&#...

Kostas Pardalis (Co-Founder @ Typedef) joins me to chat about the rapid evolution of AI and data infrastructure, next generation architectures, and much more

In this episode, I unpack how Big Tech is using massive AI investment to justify mass layoffs. All of this AI projects keep failing for the same reasons every other tech wave and IT project has: bad data, org problems, etc. Will AI be different?

Shane Murray (Field CTO Monte Carlo, Former Head of Data NY Times) joins me to chat about the impact of AI on data teams and business strategies, data observability on unstructured data, and more.

I'm very type-A and goal-oriented to a very unhealthy degree. In this rant, I explain how I'm slowly letting go of this and instead focusing on long-term sustainability.

Madison Schott joins me to chat about about her journey from working as an analytics engineer to creating content about dbt, SQL, data modeling, and more.

Are you vibe coding? Using Claude Code, Cursor, etc? I really don't care. I also talk about the power of no, Spartan Races, and more.

Peter Hanssens is an Australia-based data engineer, business owner, and community pillar. He runs Cloud Shuttle, a data engineering consultancy and organizes DataEngBytes, a series of meetups and conferences throughout Australia and New Zealand. We chat about building data engineering communities, running conferences, and much more.

Aaron Neiderhiser (CEO of Tuva Health) has an audacious goal of improving US healthcare analytics. It all starts with the data. Aaron discusses his journey and obsession with making sense of the gigantic mess of US healthcare data.

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. This episode is brought to you by Keboola. Check out their new MCP server at https://www.keboola.com/mcp

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. Keboola: https://www.keboola.com/mcp GoodData: GoodData.com/resources

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

Ash Smith is a data engineer based in Perth, Australia (the most remote city in the world). We chat about data products, interoperability, and the importance of collaboration and incentive structures within data teams.

Regular guest Gordon Wong and I chat about what you should think about if you want to work in data. Spoiler - it's probably not what you think. Shoutout to GoodData and MonteCarlo for sponsoring this episode.

Imagine writing SQL and getting instant results as you type? Yes, this is reality now. It's amazing! DuckDB/MotherDuck's Instant SQL made a big splash at last month's Data Council. Hamilton Ulmer gives a demo of Instant SQL at the Practical Data Community.----------------------------Instant SQL: https://motherduck.com/blog/introducing-instant-sql/Practical Data Community Discord: https...

Gaëlle Seret is a data leader based in France. We chat about how she helps large organizations drive change, especially around data architecture and strategy. We dig into her approach to upskilling teams, why data strategy matters, and how to work through the inevitable organizational challenges that come with transformation. We also discuss the AI in learning and work, and some interesting differ...

Last week I posted about the gulf in the data industry between people in favor and opposed AI. The data industry has an atrocious track record of success over the decades. Shall we keep repeating the same mistakes with AI? I think AI denialism is holding back and AI has the potential to help us correct a lot of the sins of the past, namely quick delivery of value. Whether we get there is another q...

Ryan Russon is an ML Engineer. He stopped by my house for a practical and grounded chat about ML and AI. Enjoy! --------- Join dbt Labs May 28 for the dbt Launch Showcase to hear from executives and product leaders about the latest features landing in dbt. See firsthand how features will empower data practitioners and organizations in the age of AI. Thanks to dat Labs for sponsoring this episode.