Sid Anand discusses cloud-native data pipelines, highlighting the need for big data companies to build large-scale pipelines that can run in the public cloud. The presentation covers key architectural components, including batch and near-real-time processing, and emphasizes the importance of operability, correctness, and cost efficiency in designing data pipelines. Additionally, he explores how tools like Apache Airflow facilitate workflow management in analytics use cases, particularly for message scoring in organizations.