The Joe Reis Show Are Software Engineers the New Data Engineers? w/ Tim Delisle & Chris Crane (514)
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Mar 5, 2026 Chris Crane, product lead and co-founder of 514, former data pipeline founder who built developer-first analytics tooling. Tim Delisle, CEO and co-founder of 514 and longtime data engineering leader. They discuss why software teams now own heavy analytics, the Moose Stack for local-first, code-first OLAP, how AI copilots speed development, and the idea of personal data lakes for privacy and local compute.
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Schema Change Broke Nike Recommendations
- Tim Delisle recounts a schema change before Nike's code freeze that broke recommendations and cost tens of millions in sales.
- The incident motivated building developer-embedded tooling for schema management, lineage, and data contracts inside Nike.
Bring Developer Best Practices To Data Engineering
- Chris Crane argues developer-first practices (code-first, local dev, Git, CI/CD) should be applied to data engineering to improve velocity and reliability.
- 514's Moose Stack exposes ClickHouse, Redpanda, Temporal with TypeScript/Python to let app teams own analytics in their SDLC.
Analytics Become Core Product Features
- Product teams now embed analytics and AI into core UX, making analytical workloads a product feature rather than a BI afterthought.
- That drives demand for OLAP infrastructure (not transactional DBs) to serve chat interfaces, wraps, and real-time visualizations.