Data Engineering Central Podcast

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 SourceGoing 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 bonus episodes, visit dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dataengineeringcentral.substack.comHello! 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 from DatabricksGoing to be a great show, come along for the ride!Thanks …

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 thoroughly.For all you free-loaders out there, you can get 20% off to celebrate Memorial Day.https://dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/Merica 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dataengineeringcentral.substack.comIt’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 support means a lot. Please share this podcast with your friend…

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. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/subscribe

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 love you though. 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 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 HouseEnjoy! 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

Welcome to the Data Engineering Central Podcast —— a no-holds-barred discussion on the Data Landscape.Welcome to Episode 02In 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'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/subscribe

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 get access to bonus episodes, visit dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/subscribe