Fall 2025 Seminar Schedule: Sep 22: Apache Iceberg Sep 29: Apache Hudi Oct 06: @motherduck.com Oct 13: SpiralDB Vortex Oct 27: @singlestore.com Nov 03: @deltalakeoss.bsky.social Nov 10: Mooncake Nov 17: @firebolthq.bsky.social Nov 24: @xtdb.com Dec 01: Apache Polaris

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I've been leading the data infrastructure efforts at my job (I used to work as a Data Engineer in big tech) and the stack we've landed on is so enjoyable to work with. @dagster.io - Orchestration @duckdb.org - Database @motherduck.com - Data Warehouse/storage DBT - Data modeling

Why use a semantic layer? 🤔 @ssp.sh shows how to build the simplest one with just: ⚡ YAML for metrics ⚡ Python + DuckDB + Ibis to query 20M NYC taxi records You'll understand when it's useful and when it's overkill motherduck.com/blog/semanti...

The August DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter is out! Highlights: • DuckDB grew 50.7% YoY (1.8M HN headlines analyzed) • Claude + DuckDB = full Spotify analytics pipeline • AI that debugs its own SQL • Real-time news sentiment with DuckDB motherduck.com/blog/duckdb-...

🚀 Just published a 3-week data engineering roadmap - perfect for summer learning! 📖 Week 1: SQL, Git & Linux basics ⚙️ Week 2: Python, cloud & data modeling 🔥 Week 3: Streaming, data quality & DevOps Perfect for beginners or skill refreshers. Consistency > speed! 👏 Thanks @ssp.sh

All roads lead to Rome, but there are 3 ways to get your Postgres analytics queries from painfully slow to lightning fast ⚡ Watch the latest video of @mehdio.com to understand 3 distinct paths to DuckDB integration, each with its own pros/cons👇 youtu.be/86V4wbFtuaY

Come join us for THE conference of the year! 🎫🦆 Early bird tix are live! 🎤 First round of speakers just dropped! Join the builders doing more with less → $295 until Aug 4: smalldatasf.com

🦆 NEW: Mega and Giga ducklings are here! For when your data is too big, your queries too complex, and "fast enough" isn't fast enough. Learn More: motherduck.com/blog/announc...

Your AI thinks DuckDB is v0.10.2 😱 Current version? 1.3.2 Stop feeding your AI stale docs! Quick fixes: 1️⃣ llms.txt files - copy fresh docs directly 2️⃣ Cursor's docs feature - auto-crawl documentation 📖 motherduck.com/blog/fix-outdated-llm-documentation-duckdb/

🦆 DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter is live! 🔥 YamlQL, Tributary Kafka extension, SQLRooms browser apps, DuckDB Wizard 🚀 DuckDB 1.3.0 with 100x perf gains, DuckLake, AWS/PostgreSQL integrations 👨‍💻 Community spotlight: Rusty Conover motherduck.com/blog/duckdb-...

The toolkit explosion is real for data engineers. One day you're optimizing SQL queries, the next debugging Kubernetes, then explaining to stakeholders why their dashboard is empty. The secret? Infrastructure as Code + DevOps principles. Read more by @ssp.sh : motherduck.com/blog/data-en...

MotherDuck now supports DuckLake! 🦆 New open table format for extreme scale with database-backed metadata. Two options: 🚀 Fully managed ☁️ Bring your own bucket Ready to dive in (the lake 🥁)? CREATE DATABASE (TYPE ducklake); motherduck.com/blog/announc...

If you missed the livestream with @jrdntgn.bsky.social and @hannes.muehleisen.org, now it's your time to catch up! A technical discussion about the evolution of open table formats and lakehouse architecture. youtu.be/-PYLFx3FRfQ

Curious to know more about DuckLake? Next Tuesday, DuckDB co-creator @hannes.muehleisen.org will talk with @motherduck.com CEO @jrdntgn.bsky.social about DuckLake and the future of open table formats. 📆 June 17 (Tuesday), 8:00 PDT / 17:00 CEST ✍️ Register at lu.ma/mt9f8xh1?tk=...

Still using REST or JDBC to serve data? 🐢 You’re slowing things down. It’s like putting a Ferrari engine in a horse-drawn carriage. 🚗🐎 Arrow Flight SQL streams columnar data at 20+ Gb/s/core. Serve data as fast as you compute it, by Thomas McGeehan: motherduck.com/blog/flight-...

We're thrilled to be part of Redpoint's 2025 InfraRed 100 list, which highlights 100 transformative companies in cloud infrastructure. Proud to be in such outstanding company - congratulations to everyone listed!

If you still haven’t gotten your hands dirty with DuckLake, here’s your opportunity! In this blog, @mehdio.com covers : 🔍 Recap on what table formats are 🧠 Understand why DuckLake's architecture is faster 🛠️ Create your first DuckLake table motherduck.com/blog/getting...

If you're wondering what all the fuss is about table formats—and this new one called DuckLake—this video is for you. If you don’t choose table formats but benchmark them, it’s for you too. If you don’t like table formats at all? Well, then share this video with your enemies.

🚀 DuckDB Ecosystem: June 2025 — just out! 🦆 Big news: DuckLake — a new table format powered by pure SQL + open formats. Also in this issue: ✅ GTFS transit data ✅ MinIO lakehouse ✅ CSV reader win and much more... 👉 motherduck.com/blog/duckdb-...

Forget what you know about table formats — DuckLake flips the script. ✅ Metadata in Postgres/DuckDB ✅ Data in Parquet on S3 ✅ No more crawling metadata files @mehdio.com breaks it down with a hands-on @supabase + @duckdb.org setup 🛠️ 📺 youtu.be/hrTjvvwhHEQ

DuckDB 1.3.0 is live in MotherDuck! New SQL syntax, blazing-fast Parquet reads and writes, and even better performance. Learn more: motherduck.com/blog/announc... @duckdb.org

If you’re using BigQuery and want to level up your local development or supercharge your DuckDB workflows with MotherDuck, it’s never been easier to move data—using just SQL or Python. motherduck.com/blog/bigquer...

One of the notions we think about quite a bit at @motherduck.com is "handling data before it becomes big" and I think this example from @tigrisdata.com really nails it. The trick here is parsing the JSON on insert so its really quick to query it.

S3 isn’t a database. But what if your lakehouse finally acted like one? @jrdntgn.bsky.social shares why the current generation of lakehouse formats like Iceberg and Delta Lake might be missing the point—and how DuckLake, a new table format, changes the game. motherduck.com/blog/ducklak...

On the last Quack&Code @mehdio.com sat down with Michael Driscoll from RillData to explore how LLMs are revolutionizing the way we interact with data. They got hands-on with some fun demos... all locally with Rill and @duckdb.org youtu.be/m0LKRX20PJ8

There's a bunch of new features from @motherduck.com‬ and marimo that really play nice together, so we're teaming up with Mehdi Ouazza this week for a livestream. Join us this Friday to get a preview of some new features for your data work here: youtube.com/live/--ExP9...

Quack... Quack... and code! @mehdio.com and @medriscoll.com from @rilldata.com are diving into how GenAI is reshaping BI-as-code — from idea to implementation. This one’s for data folks who want to see beyond the hype. Register : lu.ma/w4ncmttn

There is a lot of noise about MCP - but are they actually useful for data engineering ? @mehdio.com dives into a pragmatic example of how MCP, and specifically @duckdb MCP, can speed up data pipeline development Full video 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG1m...

Haven’t tried the new duckdb UI yet? No worries — we’ve got you covered with a full walkthrough blog showcasing all the new features! 👉 motherduck.com/blog/local-d...

The May 2025 DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter is live! Among the top picks: - LLMs in SQL (FlockMTL) - DuckDB-WASM renders Doom - Geospatial SQL revolution - Instant SQL previews - Metabase + DuckDB motherduck.com/blog/duckdb-...

Instant SQL is HERE #INSTANTSQL

INSTANT SQL mic drops with @hamilton.bsky.social at Data Council 🔥🔥🔥 Bend reality with real-time SQL results... Speedrun ad-hoc SQL queries as you type... Type, see, tweak, repeat... Get SQL superpowers - it's 2025. Learn More: motherduck.com/blog/introdu...

We debug Spark jobs and pipelines by grepping logs… but logs are data. In our latest post, @ssp.sh shows how to query logs with SQL using DuckDB + MotherDuck: • Parse messy JSON/syslog • Query vs. materialize • Analyze millions locally 👉 motherduck.com/blog/json-lo...

Data engineering feedback loops too slow? 🐌 MCP connects AI copilots (Cursor, etc.) DIRECTLY to tools like DuckDB! Imagine AI inspecting schemas & testing queries before generating code. 🤯 @mehdio.com shows how w/ DuckDB/dbt 👇 motherduck.com/blog/faster-...

🚨 New Month, New DuckDB Ecosystem Roundup! 👤 Shoutout to Caleb Fahlgren (Hugging Face) for showing how the DuckDB UI makes exploring hf:// datasets a breeze. 🔥 Highlights: • Streaming w/ SQLFlow • Hybrid search (Quiver) • S3 caching • UI tips • Pandas → SQL guide motherduck.com/blog/duckdb-...

Faraz Hameed, winner of the hackathon we co-hosted with Airbyte, shares the story behind his winning project — an IoT use case powered by a modern data stack. motherduck.com/blog/simplif...

Prompting is so 2024. We’re pushing the boundaries of simplicity with @duckdb.org Meet Quack to SQL — our new AI model that turns quack into powerful SQL 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJWP...

Thank you, Nasdaq and Wing Venture Capital, for a warm welcome this evening to ring the closing bell 🔔 for this year's 2025 Enterprise Tech 30!

SF folk: Don't miss the panel tomorrow evening on building data + AI products featuring MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani, Theory Ventures GP​Tomasz Tunguz, Cartesia CEO ​Karan Goel. Starts at 530pm. Register here: buff.ly/FRhOw4N

We’re honored and excited to share that MotherDuck has been named as one of the top companies shaping the future of enterprise tech. Thanks to our friends Wing VC and Eric Newcomer! #ET30 Congrats to everyone who made the list: enterprisetech30.com

San Francisco Bay folks: Our friends at bem are hosting a panel on data + ai product building trends, red flags and curiosities. Featuring Jordan Tigani, ​Tomasz Tunguz and ​Karan Goel. Join us Wednesday 26 March in SF. Register here:

If you missed the memo on the new @duckdb.org UI, I just just dropped a walkthrough video on @motherduck.com channel, check it out! 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCbO...

Psst: It's not over till it's over....the DuckDB Local UI is now LIVE on ProductHunt 🎉 Check it out and send us your feedback: www.producthunt.com/posts/the-du...

🦆 @duckdb.org local UI is honestly the best thing since sliced Parquet 🍞 Awesome work! @motherduck.com duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...

Introducing the DuckDB Local UI, the easiest way to explore local data files with DuckDB. Built in close partnership with @duckdb.org for the community. duckdb -ui Learn more: duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...

DuckDB got a local UI. Thanks to our friends at MotherDuck, you can now interact with your DuckDB database through an interactive notebook, running on localhost. Read the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...

Are you ready? 03.12.2025

Are you working with geospatial data, or have you been wondering why we even use it? Then, this article might be for you. Introducing & showcasing its ubiquitous use. Exploring DuckDB's spatial capabilities, transforming complex geographic analysis into simple SQL queries. Hacking on Foursquare.

What does an “in-process” database mean? Let’s revisit the basics and explore the differences between OLTP and OLAP database setups 👇 youtube.com/shorts/yuA6N...