The Upriver Blog
How Atlassian Is Automating Data Engineering with AI — A Conversation with Prakash Reddy
An edited Q&A from the Data Splash podcast, hosted by Ido Bronstein and brought to you by Upriver. Our guest is Prakash Reddy, Head of Data Engineering & AI Enablement at Atlassian. Prakash started his career in big data when "big" meant Oracle, was one of the early data practitioners at LinkedIn leading data products for Ads, and is an active investor and advisor for startups.
Omri Lifshitz
Making Your Data Platform Agent-Ready: A 5 Dimension Framework and Scorecard
A practical framework for data platform AI-readiness - 5 dimensions, before-and-after examples, quick wins, and a scorecard you can run with your team.
Omri Lifshitz
What Production Agentic Systems Actually Looks Like
Lessons learned from analyzing Claude Code's leaked sources
Omri Lifshitz
The Rise of the Knowledge Engineer
Knowledge engineering disappeared into data pipelines and infrastructure. Now AI is bringing it back. Here's why 95% of AI investments fail without it - and what the new knowledge engineer looks like.
Ido Bronstein
Your Agent Isn't Bad at Data Engineering. Your Data Platform Just Isn't Ready.
Why AI agents fail on data platforms - and what makes data fundamentally different from application code.
Omri Lifshitz
The AI Context Layer Won’t Build Itself
My response to a16z’s article
Ido Bronstein
Building Real-Time Pricing Intelligence in Snowflake with Upriver + Nimble
How Upriver & Nimble together allow building real-time pricing pipelines natively in Snowflake with UDTFs.
Ido Bronstein
The Shift Left of Data
Shifting Data Left: Data Quality Starts at the Source Giving data producers full ownership of their data unlocks faster feedback, fewer silos, and better quality — but only if they have the right tools
Ido Bronstein
From Prototype to Prod: Monitoring Data in Agentic AI Apps
In this post, we’ll break down why monitoring data in motion—as it’s pulled, interpreted, and acted on—is essential for building reliable agentic systems
Ido Bronstein
Meet Your AI-Ready Data Engineering Copilot
See how Upriver lets your team stop firefighting – and start building