Data & AI Engineering @ Ponder

Hive Data Ingestion, Simplified

From raw S3 files to analytics-ready tables with Trino, dbt, and AWS Glue Catalog

May 12 • Egor Tarasenko

PowerSchool to Lakehouse: Student Data at Uncommon Schools

How Trino enables low-latency ingestion of student records at scale

May 6 • Egor Tarasenko

March 2026

Airflow Schedule Insights: Now Ready for Airflow 3

Example Educational DAGs, Asset Trees, and Full Visibility into Complex Dependencies

Mar 9 • Egor Tarasenko

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February 2026

From AI Conversations to BI Charts

Visualizing semantic-layer analytics with Cube and AI

Feb 17 • Egor Tarasenko

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January 2026

From Semantic Layers to Conversations

Turning Cube.js analytics into a natural-language interface with RAG

Jan 26 • Egor Tarasenko

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RAG Isn’t Enough: Structuring Documents Instead of Just Retrieving Them

An open-source approach to turning PDFs and DOCX files into structured datasets with LLMs

Jan 6 • Egor Tarasenko

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December 2025

Incremental CI for dbt: Stop Rebuilding Everything From Scratch

Test your dbt models against real production data for more accurate CI results

Dec 8, 2025 • Egor Tarasenko

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Unifying dbt Lineage and Superset Metadata with AI Chat

A Superset plugin for exploring transformations, sources, and dashboards through a single, natural-language interface.

Dec 2, 2025 • Egor Tarasenko

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November 2025

dbt → Cube.js → Superset: Automating Semantic Layer & BI Sync

A fully automated workflow for generating semantic layers and publishing them to BI platforms.

Nov 24, 2025 • Egor Tarasenko

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Airflow 3 Plugin Development: DAG Dependencies

A step-by-step tutorial for building your first Airflow 3 plugin

Nov 17, 2025 • Egor Tarasenko

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Superset MCP: Organizing Dashboard Metadata

How we use Superset MCP to keep complex dashboards structured, searchable, and easy to manage.

Nov 10, 2025 • Egor Tarasenko

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Graph-Powered AI Chat for dbt

Using FalkorDB & Neo4j as a Graph DB

Nov 3, 2025 • Egor Tarasenko

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