Garrett O'Brien
Product Marketing Manager
Garrett joins MotherDuck to lead product marketing. Previously, he worked in product marketing roles at Common Paper and Stitch.
12 BLOG POSTS AND VIDEOS
60:41
2026-04-09
Zero-Latency Analytics in Your Application with Dives
BI tools were never built to be app interfaces — they're rigid, clunky, and add complexity to your user experience. Dives offer a different approach: interactive data apps you create with natural language that can be embedded directly into your applications. In this session, Alex Monahan walks through how to build a Dive and embed it in your app, with help from AI agents. You'll learn how to create interactive visualizations with natural language queries, embed Dives into your app with a secure sandbox, set up the auth flow so your users get read-only access without exposing credentials, and choose between server-side and dual execution with DuckDB-Wasm. Whether you're building customer-facing analytics or internal tools, this webinar shows you the full workflow from query to production-ready embed. See how Claude Code + Dives can get you from zero to a working data app fast.
Webinar
MotherDuck Features
BI & Visualization
App Development
2026/04/02 - Garrett O'Brien, Hamilton Ulmer
Embedded Dives: Interactive Data Apps for Customer-Facing Analytics
Real-time, interactive data apps – now embedded anywhere in your application. Created by your favorite agents and powered by dual execution.
2026/03/31 - Louisa Huang, Jelte Fennema-Nio, Garrett O'Brien
MotherDuck Now Speaks Postgres
MotherDuck's Postgres endpoint lets you query your data warehouse using any PostgreSQL-compatible client, driver, or BI tool — no new dependencies needed.
2026/03/19 - Garrett O'Brien
Claudeception: Inside the Mind of an Analytics Agent
More tool calls, more schema exploration, more verification — does it help, or hurt? We dug into the chain-of-thought traces behind one of the hardest text-to-SQL benchmarks to understand how analytics agents actually think.
2026/03/05 - Garrett O'Brien, Louisa Huang
Dashboards as Code : CI/CD For MotherDuck Dives
Local development, version control, and automated CI/CD deployments for MotherDuck Dives — composable data visualizations that are just code.
2026/03/03 - Garrett O'Brien
Give Your Agents Write Access
The MotherDuck remote MCP server now supports write operations. Learn how zero-copy clones, snapshots, and hypertenancy make it safe to let agents build in your data warehouse.
2025/12/16 - Garrett O'Brien, Jacob Matson
MotherDuck Integrates with PlanetScale Postgres
Run analytics 200x faster on PlanetScale Postgres with MotherDuck integration. Keep millisecond transactions while pushing analytical queries to serverless compute.
2025/12/11 - Garrett O'Brien
Streaming Pipelines with MotherDuck and Artie
CDC streaming takes flight with Artie’s new MotherDuck destination.
2025/11/14 - Garrett O'Brien
Small Data SF 2025: the Recap!
Dive into a recap of the world's hottest efficiency-themed data conference, Small Data SF!
2025-10-31
Beyond the Benchmarks: A BigQuery Co-Founder's Guide to Evaluating Data Warehouse Performance
Big Data is dead. Learn to evaluate data warehouse performance via Time-to-Insight and real costs, ignoring misleading petabyte-scale vendor benchmarks.
Stream
Interview
2025/10/09 - Alex Monahan, Garrett O'Brien
DuckDB 1.4.1 and DuckLake 0.3 Land in MotherDuck: New SQL Syntax, Iceberg Interoperability, and Performance Gains
MotherDuck now supports DuckDB 1.4.1 and DuckLake 0.3, with new SQL syntax, faster sorting, Iceberg interoperability, and more. Read on for the highlights from these major releases.
