Ananth Packkildurai, a wealth of knowledge and experience in data engineering, discusses data contracts, domain ownership, metadata management, and his new project Schemata. He explores the challenges of modern data stacks, the difference between C'mon schema and a metric layer, and the difficulties of data ingestion and analytics. Ananth also talks about his motivation for writing newsletters and curating them, and touches on topics like the Skimada app and future guests.