WTF is happening in data engineering?

When there is a new headline about data engineering everyday, keeping up can feel like a full-time job, especially when you’re caught between the frontier of tech and legacy data swamps.

Tamara and Volker are going through the same thing. They’ve been asking questions like: Is DuckDB on an iPhone really faster than your Databricks cluster? Is 3NF dead? What does “realtime data” actually mean? Also, who is Jev?

So they are sitting down for a casual conversation about the current trends and sharing insights on where the role is headed.

They’ll discuss topics like:

• What skills you need to work on now that AI agents can write pipelines and fix bugs
• How to know when small data ends and you actually need the expensive big setup
• Why Dags are going to loop in Airflow and when you should use it

Plus, you’ll leave with a curated list of resources that actually helped them, so you don’t have to read the whole internet.