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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Designing Regulated Analytics Pipelines That Are Compliant by Construction... sounds like an important topic we can all learn from... let's heart it from Srinivasan Venkatadri: youtu.be/46zR7aq0iMk

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Designing Regulated Analytics Pipelines That Are Compliant by Construction

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So the hottest thing in data right now (or should I say the coolest thing) is Snowflake CoCo... lets here from Eric Lin about scalable data architectures: youtu.be/ntRIXEOaUo4

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The Scalable Data Architecture: Slashing Latency and Costs with Snowflake CoCo

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Interested in the intersection of low cost data platforms and solar farms? Emily Melhuish has got you covered: youtu.be/JWzjEfSUsfU

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Fire and Ice: Building a data platform to power solar operations

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We are so back! Brisbane and Auckland, March 2027. 25-minute practitioner talks. Closes 17 Nov. dataengbytes.com/forms/confer...

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Vibe coding and building Agentic Workflows? Here's some practical tips from Luke Parker of AnomalyCo/OpenCode: youtu.be/vTs_Z80jyug

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Practical Tips for Vibe Coding & Agent Workflows

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Want to learn how to build scalable data products? Let's learn it from Ignatius Soputro, Staff Data Engineer at Xero: youtu.be/ha3fjGGHX8k

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Scalable Data Products with Terraform, Jinja and Python

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

CFP opens tomorrow. Brisbane and Auckland, March 2027. 25-minute practitioner talks. Closes 17 Nov. dataengbytes.com/forms/confer... #deb27

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

CFP opens tomorrow. Brisbane and Auckland, March 2027. 25-minute practitioner talks. Closes 17 Nov. dataengbytes.com/forms/confer... #deb27

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

New speaker 🎤 Andrew Tran (CTO @ Alkera AI) and 🎤Rick Gao (CEO @ Alkera AI) joins #deb26 "Agents versus data pipelines: failure modes of coding agents on real DE work" Melbourne & Sydney · July 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

JFrog are running Securing the Software Surge with Trusted AI - An Exclusive Auckland Breakfast Event on Thursday August 13th at 8:30am - this is one not to be missed if you are deep into security and data security! leap.jfrog.com/Auckland-Bre...

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

New speaker 🎤 Matt Yi (Co-Founder & Tech VP @ VeloDB) joins #deb26 "One Engine for Production AI: Why AI Agents Need a Different Database?" Sydney · 28–29th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/matt-yi

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A very warm welcome to Alkera as Gold sponsor of DataEngBytes... Alkera provides a data engineering agent that works natively across your entire data stack with strict data governance, reasoning over exact data lineage, and a living knowledge base built from your data team's work.

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

New speaker 🎤 Travis Murphy (Sr. Product Marketing Manager & Evangelist @ Snowflake) joins #deb26 "Ultimate Guide to Vibe Engineering on Snowflake" Melbourne & Sydney · July 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/travis-murphy

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

New speaker 🎤 Luke Parker (Upside-Down Deployed Engineer @ Anomaly) joins #deb26 "Practical Tips for Vibe Coding & Agent Workflows" Melbourne & Sydney · July 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/luke-parker

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

New speaker 🎤 Dr. Dalin Wang (Machine Learning Engineer @ Sonder) joins #deb26 "Why Standard LLM Evals Fail in Mental Health (And What We Built Instead)" Sydney · 28–29th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/dalin-wang

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

New speaker 🎤 Kanishka Mohaia (VP of Engineering @ Sonder) joins #deb26 "The Anti-Chatbot: Building a Fine-Tuned, DPO-Aligned Human-in-the-Loop Copilot" Melbourne & Sydney · July 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/kanishka-mohaia

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

New speaker 🎤 Darren Ware (Senior Data Engineer @ RMIT University) joins #deb26 "Guidelines and Guardrails: RMIT's Data Mesh Transformation" Melbourne · 23–24th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/darren-ware

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

New speaker 🎤 Shreya Sharma (Solutions Architect @ Databricks) joins #deb26 "The 7 Stages of AI Engineering Grief" Melbourne · 23–24th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/shreya-sharma

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

New speaker 🎤 Shehan Madusanka (Data Delivery Manager @ RACT) joins #deb26 "Synthetic Data in the Age of AI: Testing Models and Applications" Melbourne · 23–24th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/shehan-madusanka

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

New speaker 🎤 Tom Kunc & Waleed Shahid (Team Leads @ Optiver Australia) joins #deb26 "Data Engineering in High Frequency Trading" Sydney · 28–29th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/tom-kunc 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/waleed-shahid

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

New speaker 🎤 Irfan Elahi (Senior Specialist Solutions Architect @ Databricks) joins #deb26 "One Stream, Many Contracts: Kafka-to-Kafka Republishing Without the Sprawl" Melbourne · 23–24th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/irfan-elahi

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

New speaker 🎤 Sarah Taylor (Lead Data Engineer @ RMIT University) joins #deb26 "Guidelines and Guardrails: RMIT's Data Mesh Transformation" Melbourne · 23–24th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/sarah-taylor

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

New speaker 🎤 Jonathan Carroll (Principal Consultant @ Irregularly Scheduled Programming) joins #deb26 "Your Notes Are a Graph. Just Not a Very Useful One. Let's Fix That." Sydney · 28–29th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/jonathan-carroll

New speaker 🎤 Jonathan Carroll (Principal Consultant @ Irregularly Scheduled Programming) joins #deb26

"Your Notes Are a Graph. Let's Fix That."

Sydney · 28–29th July, 2026

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🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/jonathan-carroll

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

New speaker 🎤 Emily Melhuish (Data Engineer) joins #deb26 "Fire and Ice: Building a Solar Data Platform" Melbourne · 23–24th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/emily-melhuish

New speaker 🎤 Emily Melhuish (Data Engineer @ Independent) joins #deb26

"Fire and Ice: Building a Solar Data Platform"

Melbourne · 23–24th July, 2026

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

New speaker 🎤 Anup Sethuram (Senior Data Engineer @ DAZN Foxtel Group) joins #deb26 "Beyond Cosine Similarity: Retrieval Engineering with Luminary" Sydney · 28–29th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/anup-sethuram

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

New speaker 🎤 Rimma Shafikova (Senior Data Scientist @ VGW) joins #deb26 "Why LLMs Are Non-Deterministic" Sydney · 28–29th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/rimma-shafikova

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

New speaker 🎤 Simon O'Toole (Head of Research Data & Software @ Macquarie University) joins #deb26 "Data Pipelines for the Universe" Sydney · 28–29th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/simon-o-toole

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

New speaker 🎤 Muhammad Ali (Solutions Architect @ ClickHouse) joins #deb26 "Rethinking Lock-in in the Age of AI Data" Melbourne & Sydney · July 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/muhammad-ali

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

New speaker 🎤 Carine Oliveira (Engineering Manager @ Easygo) joins #deb26 "Your Data Platform Isn't Broken. Your Team Structure Is." Melbourne & Sydney · July 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets

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DataEngBytes @dataengbytes.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Excited to announce our first ever Town Hall at the Brisbane Data Engineering conference will be led by Gargi Ahluwalia. We dare say if you were looking for a reason to attend the conference, this is it - this may well be a career changing discussion for you. Get your ticket today. Don't miss out!

Excited to announce our first ever Town Hall at the Brisbane Data Engineering conference will be led by Gargi Ahluwalia.

Key Takeaways:
- Open community forum — no slides, no vendor pitches
- Topics are community-driven and surfaced in advance via survey
- A rare space for honest, practitioner-to-practitioner conversation

We dare say if you were looking for a reason to attend the conference, this is it - this may well be a career changing discussion for you... get your ticket today... don't miss out!

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DataEngBytes @dataengbytes.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Tickets are selling fast for DataEngBytes 2026 in Brisbane and Auckland. With both venues having hard limits on attendance, we are monitoring the ticket situation. Be sure not to miss out by booking yours now!

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DataEngBytes @dataengbytes.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🇳🇿 Speaker drop for #DataEngBytes Auckland (March 24)! Geoffrey Huntley is joining us to talk about something we all need to hear: "Software Development Now Costs Less Than Minimum Wage" $10.42/hr. Less than a burger flipper earns.

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Hey folks, With everyone starting to return back to the office, we're getting lots of companies reaching out to purchase 10 or more tickets to DataEngBytes. If this is you, please do send me an email or DM me. We've got some bonus offers for you and discounts running up until January 31st!

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

🚀 Drover v0.2.0 is live! We've decoupled the engine from the chassis. You can now orchestrate multiple AI agent types in parallel, not just Claude. Choose your driver: 🤖 Claude Code ⚡ Amp 📜 Codex 🆕 OpenCode CLI 👇 github.com/cloud-shuttle/dr...

We are excited to announce Drover v0.2.0, a major update that transforms Drover from a Claude-specific tool into a general-purpose AI agent orchestrator.

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DataEngBytes @dataengbytes.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Fantastic news, announcing Alex Merced is speaking at DataEngBytes 2026 in Brisbane and Auckland! 🚀

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Sponsoring DataEngBytes may just be the best thing you do all year. We're running a promotion for Brisbane and Auckland. Reach out for details!

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Don't shoot the messenger, but the Grinch is absolutely losing it. 😤 He’s demanding you all STOP buying the discounted conference tickets. Personally? I think we should buy as many as possible just to annoy him. 😈 Grab yours here: dataengbytes.com/ #DataFam #DataEng #TechConference

Don't shoot the messenger, but the Grinch is absolutely losing it. 😤

He’s demanding you all STOP buying the discounted conference tickets. He says the $99 and $299 price tags are "disgustingly cheerful."

The sale ends this Sunday (Jan 11).

Personally? I think we should buy as many as possible just to annoy him. 😈

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

We are doing a massive sponsorship sale until the end of January. Get yourself a coffee cart of booth for just $5k + GST. Reach out to find out more. #DataEng #TechSponsorship #DevRel #Auckland #Brisbane

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Great news! Our call for papers deadline has been extended until the 11th of January. You have until next Sunday to submit a talk: dataengbytes.com/forms/conf...

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

CFP and Boxing day sale extended... don't miss out: dataengbytes.com/ #dataengineering #aiengineering #dataconference

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

We didn't want to be the Grinch that stole the Christmas and New Year joy... So we are extending the Call for Papers closing date for Brisbane and Auckland as well as the Boxing Day Sale. You now have up until the 11th of January! 🎁🎆🎉 #dataengineering #dataengbytes #deb #newyear #happynewyear

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

A friendly reminder that December 31st is the deadline for the call for papers for DataEngBytes 2026 Brisbane and Auckland. If you'd like to get your talk in, you can do that here... Pro tip: submit more than one talk Link: dataengbytes.com/forms/conf...

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Forget fighting the crowds for a cheap TV. The best Boxing Day snag is actually a conference ticket. 🌭 We’ve dropped prices for the Data Eng conference to $99 for Bris/Auckland and $299 for Syd/Melb. Sale ends NYE! 🎆 Grab them here: www.tickettailor.com/events... #DataFam #DataEngineering

If you are looking to sort out your professional development for 2026 early, the DataEngBytes team has just dropped some massive Boxing Day "Data Deals."

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 19/12/2025

People used to complain that the DBOS UI wasn't available locally. Good news: it is now, and it's free for open-source local dev. Run a local DBOS UI right on your laptop and actually see your workflows while you build. Debugging hits different when it's visual. docs.dbos.dev/production/s...

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Self-Hosting Conductor | DBOS Docs

Self-hosted Conductor is released under a proprietary license.

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Incremental tickets for DataEngBytes are closing soon for Brisbane and Auckland. Give the gift of knowledge this festive season and be sure to save big $$.

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The DataEngBytes call for papers is closing on December 31st for Brisbane and Auckland. Now is your time to get working on your submission and put it forward. Pro tip: put forward more than one talk! dataengbytes.com/forms/conf...

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

A reminder that our Call for Papers for DataEngBytes is now open. If you'd like to put forward a talk to the conference, now is your chance. The deadline for Brisbane and Auckland is fast approaching: dataengbytes.com/forms/conf...

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Incredibly saddened by the events of yesterday evening in Bondi... Australia is such a peaceful country... my heart goes out to the Jewish people in in Bondi who have been affected by this tragedy!

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DataEngBytes @dataengbytes.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

📢 DataEngBytes 2026 CFP is OPEN! Submit talks for all 4 cities by Dec 31 (extended to March for Sydney & Melbourne). We want your hard-won lessons from the trenches & thoughts on where data/ML is heading. Multiple submissions welcome! 🎤 🔗 dataengbytes.com/forms/conf...

Our Call for Papers for DataEngBytes 2026 is officially OPEN!

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Peter Hanssens @petehanssens.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

IBM has been going on an acquisition spree of late… lots of consolidation happening in data right now… I wonder if something like Neo4j is next! 🤔

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