Loading...

PODCAST

The Joe Reis Show

I’m Joe Reis, co-author of Fundamentals of Data Engineering, creator of Mixed Model Arts, international speaker, and long-time observer of the tech industry’s favorite recurring mistakes. Weekly broadcasts from somewhere on the road. Expect raw solo rants and long-form conversations with the engineers and leaders actually building things. I dive into data, AI, architecture, and career survival. This podcast is invitation-only. Unsolicited guest pitches and PR outreach are not considered.

technology

All Episodes

00:12:48

The Pendulums of Data

The Joe Reis Show ·

2026/10/02

The data industry rarely moves in a straight line. We swing from centralized to decentralized, batch to real-time, general-purpose to specialized, abstraction to control, and governance to self-service.In this episode, I unpack why these cycles keep repeating, what forces push the pendulum in each direction, and why every successful architecture eventually creates the conditions for its own backlash.

en-us

00:16:32

This Year’s Better Mousetrap: New Tech, Same Old...

The Joe Reis Show ·

2026/09/25

We see a lot of hype cycles in our industry - Data mesh. Generative AI. Agents. Now context. Every cycle brings a new label and a familiar promise: this will finally make your organization’s data useful.The technology has improved enormously. So why do the same problems keep coming back?In this episode, I explore how communication, incentives, and organizational politics shape what our tools actually deliver. Will context finally deliver the silver bullet to solve our problems? Is buying the next

en-us

00:43:37

DuckDB - The Past, Present, and Future, DuckLabs, and...

The Joe Reis Show ·

2026/09/22

Hannes Mühleisen (co-creator of DuckDB) joins me to chat about the past, present, and future of DuckDB, Ducklabs (recently acquired by AWS), and more.Note - parts edited due to AWS's request.

en-us

01:00:17

Designing the AI-Driven Data Foundations:...

The Joe Reis Show ·

2026/09/18

Former Gartner VP Analyst and principal at SanjMo, Sanjeev Mohan, joins me to break down the reality of AI adoption, data foundations, and why enterprises are hitting roadblocks with agents and LLMs. From comparing the current AI boom to the dot-com era to unpacking his new concept, ECL (Extract, Context, Link), Sanjeev explains why moving data around is no longer viable and why "there is no AI stack, only one stack." We also dive into capability overhang, artificial guardrails, the race

en-us

00:16:26

Why Write Books?

The Joe Reis Show ·

2026/09/18

This week at dbt Summit, Tristan Handy (co-founder of dbt) asked me why I write books. It's a good question, especially today when reading is declining and any answer is seemingly at your fingertips.In this Freestyle Friday, I discuss why I write books, why they still matter, and much more. If you're interested in writing a book, this episode is definitely a must-listen.

en-us

00:16:42

Nobody Knows...

The Joe Reis Show ·

2026/09/11

I talk to executives and practitioners around the world about AI and what comes next. Everyone has predictions and pontifications, and everyone seems to think someone else has the answers. But the more conversations I have, the clearer it gets that nobody knows what's next. In this episode, I explore that uncertainty and how we move forward anyway.Because in the end, nobody knows...

en-us

00:57:43

Why AI Agents Will Break Modern Data Engineering (And...

The Joe Reis Show ·

2026/09/10

In this episode of The Joe Reis Show, I catch up with my good friend Christophe Blefari, co-founder of NAO, to dig into what's actually happening on the front lines of AI agents and data engineering. We talk about the evolution from building SQL IDEs to agentic analytics harnesses, how prompt-driven workflows are reshaping data teams, and why age-old problems like data discovery, modeling, and documentation are suddenly roaring back. We also dive into the risks of "token slop," whether

en-us

00:49:30

The Return of Conceptual Data Modeling w/ Sami Hero...

The Joe Reis Show ·

2026/09/08

In this episode, I sit down with Sami Hero, CEO of Ellie.ai, to talk through the evolution of data modeling and why foundational conceptual modeling is more critical now than ever. With the explosion of AI agents, LLMs, and semantic layers, many teams assume they can bypass data modeling and just let an AI infer meaning directly from raw tables. We dig into why that mindset leads to bad decisions, how companies end up with 15,000 Snowflake tables and thousands of unmaintained dashboards, and why

en-us

00:19:43

Agents, Self-Service BI Redux, and "Death of Data Teams"

The Joe Reis Show ·

2026/09/04

AI agents are being pitched as the “death of the data team,” with CEOs supposedly able to do the work themselves. We’ve heard versions of this promise before, from self-service BI to low-code analytics.In this episode, I revisit that history and ask what agents actually change. Who prepares the data, resolves conflicting definitions, and checks the answers? What does the hiring research tell us about demand for experienced people and opportunities for juniors?

en-us

00:52:44

Bringing Distributed Compute & AI to the Edge w/...

The Joe Reis Show ·

2026/09/01

In this episode of the Joe Reis Show, I sit down with David Aronchick, co-founder of Expanso and one of the early pioneers behind Kubernetes, Kubeflow, and the CNCF. We dive deep into the evolving data landscape and discuss why the architectural pendulum is swinging back from pure cloud centralization toward distributed edge compute. David breaks down the real operational nightmares of edge data collection, why treating your bronze tier as a "toxic waste dump" breaks downstream pipelines,

en-us

00:24:09

Are You Still Hands-On?

The Joe Reis Show ·

2026/08/28

I get asked all the time whether I’m still “hands-on.” The short answer: not in the traditional sense. My work has shifted toward writing, teaching, advising, investing, building companies, and working with the people building what comes next. In this episode, I argue that technical relevance isn’t about staying trapped in the same operating mode forever, and that AI is drastically changing what “hands-on” even means.------------------------Sponsor: FivetranWith the rise of AI and agents, having

en-us

00:52:04

Building with AI, DuckDB + RDF, and the Semantic...

The Joe Reis Show ·

2026/08/27

On this episode of The Joe Reis Show, I’m joined by Dan Bennett, Head of Technology for the Enterprise Data Organization at S&P Global.We get into what it actually looks like to build with modern AI coding tools like Claude Code. Not just as a toy, but for writing production-grade C++. Dan walks through how he built an open-source RDF extension for DuckDB, why rock-solid test coverage is non-negotiable when working with LLMs, and why engineering leaders need to keep their hands dirty to

en-us

00:15:44

The Mixed Model Arts Manifesto

The Joe Reis Show ·

2026/08/21

I discuss the The Mixed Model Arts Manifesto. That's it. That's the show.

en-us

01:04:07

Agentic Analytics and the Death of Dashboards? |...

The Joe Reis Show ·

2026/08/19

Will AI agents solve the data industry's hardest challenges, or are we just amplifying existing chaos?In this episode, I chat with Oliver Laslett, Co-founder and CTO at Lightdash, to explore the frontier of agentic analytics, data modeling, and modern software engineering practices. We dive deep into how AI is shifting daily workflows from writing SQL and DBT models to higher-order system thinking, why the hardest data problems remain human and organizational, and the cultural differences in tech

en-us

00:21:21

The Great Recomposition: Why Everything is Blurring...

The Joe Reis Show ·

2026/08/14

It feels like everything is converging right now. Data forms and systems are converging. Agile and Waterfall are starting to look strangely compatible. Software engineering, data engineering, and AI engineering are bleeding into each other. In this episode, I explore why AI is collapsing boundaries we spent decades creating, and why semantics, architecture, specification, and judgment may matter more as a result.-----------------------Sponsor: FivetranWith the rise of AI and agents, having

en-us

00:51:24

Stop Overpaying for AI! The Rise of Small Open-Source...

The Joe Reis Show ·

2026/08/13

Are massive frontier AI models actually worth the cost?In this episode, I sit down with Daniel Svonava, Founder of Superlinked, to break down where AI is actually heading in production. We dive into why the hype around massive frontier models is shifting toward targeted, small open-source models, and how to orchestrate smart agents without blowing through your budget.Daniel shares how Superlinked is building open-source inference infrastructure, why small models are rapidly closing the performance

en-us

00:18:35

The "X Is Dead" Fallacy

The Joe Reis Show ·

2026/08/07

Every so often, the tech industry declares something dead. Data warehousing is dead. Data modeling is dead. Semantic layers are dead. SQL is dead. Now AI is supposedly making entire professions obsolete. I get it. Ragebait gets the clicks and comments. But it's also lame and disingenuous.In this Freestyle Friday, I unpack the logical fallacies behind these claims, why technology almost always evolves instead of replaces, and how separating fundamentals from shapeshifting implementations gives you a

en-us

00:48:58

Building Real AI Systems: Inside "Architected...

The Joe Reis Show ·

2026/08/05

In this episode, I crashed Pattern's office to sit down with Jacob Miller (VP of Platform Intelligence) and Jeremy Mumford (Lead AI Engineer) from Pattern to discuss their newly co-authored book, "Architected Intelligence." We dive deep into the reality of building scalable AI systems, explaining why companies cannot simply put an LLM in front of everything. We also explore the importance of curating data to avoid the "semantic swamp," the reality of adapting organizational

en-us

00:01:03

My Podcast is Invitation Only. Please Stop Spamming Me.

The Joe Reis Show ·

2026/08/03

I'm getting a ton of emails from individuals and PR agencies asking to be on my podcast. Almost all of it is AI slop spam of the most bland and uninteresting kind. "I have an AI startup solving X." Yeah, you and everybody else... my Goldendoodle also has an AI startup. As a reminder my podcast is invite-only. If you or your PR agency sends me these types of messages, I will ignore them or berate you for spamming me with this nonsensical and offensive slop.

en-us

00:26:05

The Post-Literate Engineer

The Joe Reis Show ·

2026/07/31

Marshall McLuhan predicted a post-literate world in The Gutenberg Galaxy. That world may now be arriving: humans are reading less, AI is reading more, and engineers can increasingly produce code, schemas, documentation, and infrastructure without fully understanding what they created. Perhaps this describes you? ;)In this Freestyle Friday, I look at the gap between production and comprehension, why judgment is becoming more valuable than cranking out code and diagrams, and how software and data

en-us

418 results

Similar Podcasts

Lead With AI

Tamara Nall

Elon Musk Podcast

Stage Zero

Two Blokes Talking Tech

Trevor Long and Stephen Fenech

Download This Show

ABC Australia

Amelia"s Weekly Fish Fry

EEJournal.com