HeyJaredData Engineering Podcast
This show goes behind the scenes for the tools, techniques, and difficulties associated with the discipline of data engineering. Databases, workflows, automation, and data manipulation are just some of the topics that you will find here.
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Reducing Data Debt with Agile Ledger Architecture (opens the original)
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Summary In this episode Christopher Doidge talks about his Agile Ledger Architecture (ALA) approach to data warehousing and how it aims to reduce data debt while shortening the path from raw data to trustworthy business insight. Christopher explained that ALA is not a replacement for existing warehouse patterns like medallion architecture, star schemas, or other modeling approaches, but a complementary discipline focused on pushing business definitions upstream, enforcing cleaner ledger-style tr
What Context Really Means in Data Engineering and AI (opens the original)
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Summary In this episode Soham Mazumdar, co-founder and CEO of Wisdom.ai, talks about what “context” really means in data engineering and AI systems. He explores why context has become such an overloaded term, spanning everything from semantic layers and data catalogs to tribal knowledge, query logs, dashboards, and even agent memory. Soham explained that the big shift is that context is no longer being prepared primarily for human analysts, but for LLMs and agents that can’t reliably fill in mis
Specialized AI for Data Engineers: Inside Astronomer’s Otto (opens the original)
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Summary In this episode Yetunde Dada discusses Otto, Astronomer’s AI agent for Airflow, and the broader challenge of making agentic tooling actually useful for data engineers. She explored why generic coding assistants often fall short in data workflows, how Otto adds the missing context around Airflow, Astro, upgrades, and troubleshooting, and why Astronomer focused first on high-leverage use cases such as DAG authoring, investigation of pipeline failures, version migrations, and legacy schedul
Why Multi-Agent Systems Need Shared State, Graph Semantics, and Governance (opens the original)
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Summary In this episode Ragnor Comerford talks about OmniGraph, a lakehouse-native graph storage layer designed around the needs of agentic systems. He explores how graphs are primarily a semantic model for representing the world, rather than just a specialized engine for traversal workloads, and how that perspective shaped OmniGraph’s design on top of object storage, Lance, Arrow, and DataFusion. Ragnor explained the motivation for combining graph semantics with Git-style branching and merging
Building the Context Flywheel for AI Data Agents (opens the original)
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Summary In this episode Prukalpa Sankar, co-founder of Atlan, talks about what it takes to build a “context flywheel” for AI agents in data-intensive organizations. She explained why model intelligence alone isn’t enough to make AI useful in production, and how real performance depends on contextual intelligence: institutional knowledge, semantic meaning, procedural know-how, and access to the right tools. She also dug into how metadata catalogs are evolving into broader context layers that serv
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