Ananth Packkildurai

Ananth Packkildurai, Principal Software Engineer at Zendesk and curator of the popular Data Engineering Weekly newsletter, shares his insights on building customer-facing data applications. He discusses the evolution of analytics infrastructure and the significance of technologies like data lineage and catalogs. Ananth delves into real-time data integration solutions, evaluating tools such as Druid and ClickHouse. He also offers guidance for software engineers looking to break into data roles, emphasizing the importance of SQL and a log-driven approach.

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.