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.
7 BLOG POSTS AND VIDEOS
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.
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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.
