Eventual Consistency
Eventual Consistency is the show for data leaders who are tired of the hype cycle. CorrDyn's Ross Katz and James Winegar break down the news, acquisitions, and product launches that actually matter for practitioners building and running data platforms. No vendor pitches, no breathless AI predictions — just two experienced data consultants saying what they actually think. The show covers data engineering, analytics strategy, vendor landscape shifts, and the business side of running a data team.
Hosted by Ross Katz & James Winegar
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The Consulting-Lab Land Grab: What Sits Above the Model
with Ross Katz & Jason Bradwell
Ross Katz and Jason Bradwell on why AI labs, consultancies, and PE firms are converging on the space between a model and a business outcome.
Similar Keynote, Different Platforms: Snowflake vs. Databricks
with Ross Katz & Jason Bradwell
Ross Katz and Jason Bradwell on why Snowflake and Databricks built the same keynote around context, and what the ontology race means for platform strategy.
Credence Goods, Junior Cuts, and the Audit Value Chain
with Ross Katz & Jason Bradwell
Ross Katz and Jason Bradwell on what AI is doing to the Big Four: compressing audit's middle, transforming junior roles, and repricing judgment.
If AI Can Do the Work, What Are Clients Actually Paying For?
with Ross Katz & Jason Bradwell
Ross Katz and Jason Bradwell on what clients actually pay for when AI can produce the deliverable: verifiability, recoverability, and what compounds.
Acceleration Without Stabilization: AI and Data Teams
with Ross Katz & Jason Bradwell
Ross Katz and Jason Bradwell on the 2026 dbt Labs report: why AI accelerates data work while foundations lag and accountability becomes the bottleneck.
Supply Chain Risk Became Everyone's Problem
with James Winegar
with Jamil Bou Khair, Founder & CEO at Firezone & Brian Manifold, Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Firezone
Firezone's Jamil Bou Khair and Brian Manifold on supply chain attacks, the Trivy exploit, and why zero trust beats perimeter security in 2026.
What MCP Means for Enterprise Data Strategy
with Ross Katz & James Winegar
Ross Katz and James Winegar on what 97M MCP installs mean for data teams, why warehouses beat raw source systems for agents, and security gaps.
The Back End Is the New Storefront
with Ross Katz & Jason Bradwell
Ross Katz and Jason Bradwell discuss what Best Buy and Target reveal about retail data strategy when AI agents become the primary shopping interface.
Power Before Code: Energy Constraints Reshaping AI
with Ross Katz
with Mickey Peters, Entrepreneur and Executive Coach at Vistage
Ross Katz interviews Mickey Peters on power infrastructure limiting AI expansion, hyperscaler energy strategies, and why electricity is the true AI bottleneck.
8 Ways to Survive the SaaSpocalypse
with Ross Katz & James Winegar
Ross Katz breaks down eight factors determining which SaaS companies survive AI disruption after $300B in software losses following AI agent launches.
AI's Experimentation Era Is Over, Says Davos
with Ross Katz
with Matt Sekac, Leads R&D, Data Office, and Data Analytics at Welocalize
Ross Katz and James Winegar discuss moving AI from demos to production, measurement challenges, and balancing experimentation with executive ROI demands.
IBM Buys Confluent: What It Means for the Data Stack
with Ross Katz & James Winegar
Ross Katz and James Winegar break down IBM's $11B Confluent acquisition and what it signals for Kafka, streaming, and the modern data stack.
Enhancing Developer Efficiency with SQLMesh
with James Winegar
with Toby Mao, CTO at Tobiko Data
Tobiko CTO Toby Mao discusses SQLMesh virtual environments, CI/CD integration for data pipelines, and SQLGlot cross-platform SQL standardization.
People as Problem and Solution in Data Leadership
with James Winegar
with Nicole Radziwill, Author & Data Leader at Team-X AI
Nicole Radziwill discusses organizational alignment, power dynamics in data decisions, CDO responsibilities, and human factors in data-driven outcomes.
DuckDB: A Game Changer in Data Analytics
with James Winegar
with Alex Monahan, Developer Advocate at MotherDuck
Alex Monahan of MotherDuck examines DuckDB 1.2 performance gains, out-of-memory handling, community extensions, and the cloud-enhanced analytics experience.
From Pipelines to People: Building Data Teams
with James Winegar
with Lindsay Murphy, Data Leader at Hiive
Lindsay Murphy discusses building strategic data teams, self-serve analytics models, remote networking, and aligning data initiatives with business ROI.
Gen AI in Incident Response with StratusGrid
with James Winegar
with Matt Barlow, CEO at StratusGrid
StratusGrid CEO Matt Barlow explores generative AI for incident response and cloud infrastructure, covering agent customization and junior engineer development.
Efficient Data Streaming with Estuary
with James Winegar
with David Yaffe, CEO at Estuary
Estuary CEO David Yaffe details streaming architecture optimization, minimal resource requirements, cloud egress cost reduction, and customer-first engineering.
Ethical Data Practices with Kevin Hartman — Part 2
with James Winegar
with Kevin Hartman, VP of Analytics at Databricks
Kevin Hartman continues discussing Databricks' evolution from Apache Spark to Photon and Delta Lake, and how open-source principles shape data science.
Ethical Data Practices with Kevin Hartman — Part 1
with James Winegar
with Kevin Hartman, VP of Analytics at Databricks
Databricks VP Kevin Hartman explores open standards, responsible data science, and how community-driven innovation shapes ethical technology development.
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