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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...

Why Semantic Layers Matter — and How to Build One with DuckDB - MotherDuck Blog

Learn what a semantic layer is, why it matters, and how to build a simple one with DuckDB and Ibis using just YAML and Python | Reading time: 21 min read

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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-...

DuckDB Ecosystem: August 2025 - MotherDuck Blog

DuckDB Monthly #32: DuckDB hits 50.7% growth—vector search, WASM, and analytics take the spotlight | Reading time: 7 min read

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🚀 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

Why Your Postgres Analytics Are So Slow (And 3 Ways to Fix It)

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🦆 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files - copy fresh docs directly 2️⃣ Cursor's docs feature - auto-crawl documentation 📖 motherduck.com/blog/fix-outdated-llm-documentation-duckdb/

Teaching Your LLM About DuckDB the Right Way: How to Fix Outdated Documentation - MotherDuck Blog

Learn how to keep LLMs updated with llms.txt and Cursor's docs feature. | Reading time: 4 min read

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🦆 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-...

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: July 2025 - MotherDuck Blog

DuckDB Monthly #31: Kafka Integration, Browser-Based Analytics, and Lake Format Innovations | Reading time: 7 min read

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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...

The Data Engineer Toolkit: Infrastructure, DevOps, and Beyond - MotherDuck Blog

A comprehensive guide to advanced data engineering tools covering everything from SQL engines and orchestration platforms to DevOps, data quality, AI workflows, and the soft skills needed to build pro...

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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...

MotherDuck Managed DuckLakes Now in Preview: Scale to Petabytes - MotherDuck Blog

Preview support of MotherDuck includes both fully-managed DuckLake support and ability to bring your own bucket. Combined with MotherDuck's storage, you get both high-speed access to recent data and s...

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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

How DuckLake Simplifies Lakehouse Architecture ft. Jordan Tigani & Hannes Mühleisen

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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=...

DuckLake & The Future of Open Table Formats · Luma

Join MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani and DuckDB's Hannes Mühleisen for an in-depth discussion about DuckLake, the new lakehouse format that's rethinking how we…

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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-...

Why REST and JDBC Are Killing Your Data Stack — Flight SQL to the Rescue - MotherDuck Blog

Understand how Flight SQL can speed up how your serve data with DuckDB | Reading time: 8 min read

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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...

Getting Started with DuckLake: A New Table Format for Your Lakehouse - MotherDuck Blog

Learn how DuckLake simplifies metadata and brings fast, database-like features to your data lakehouse — with a hands-on example using DuckDB and PostgreSQL | Reading time: 8 min read

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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.

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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 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-...

DuckDB Ecosystem: June 2025 - MotherDuck Blog

DuckDB Monthly #30: DuckDB's new table format, Radio extension and more! | Reading time: 7 min read

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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

Understanding DuckLake: A Table Format with a Modern Architecture

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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

DuckDB 1.3 Lands in MotherDuck: Performance Boosts, Even Faster Parquet, and Smarter SQL - MotherDuck Blog

DuckDB 1.3 has launched, with performance boosts, faster Parquet reads and writes, and new SQL syntax for ducking awesome analytics with full support in MotherDuck. Read on for highlights from this ma...

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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...

From BigQuery to DuckDB and MotherDuck : Efficient Local and Cloud Data Pipelines - MotherDuck Blog

Learn how to query load table from BigQuery to DuckDB and MotherDuck using SQL and Python! | Reading time: 7 min read

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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.

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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...

A Duck Walks into a Lake - MotherDuck Blog

DuckDB introduces a new table format, what does it mean for the future of data lakes ? | Reading time: 9 min read

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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

AI Powered BI: Can LLMs REALLY Generate Your Dashboards? ft. Michael Driscoll

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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

BI-as-Code with GenAI+DuckDB Real Use, Not Just Hype · Luma

Mehdi and Michael dive into how GenAI is reshaping BI-as-code. And as always — it’s not just talk, it’s real code. Get ready for pragmatic insights and…

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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...

Faster Data Pipelines development with MCP and DuckDB

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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...