--- title: "Marcos Ortiz - MotherDuck Blog" description: "I'm a Data Engineer by day at X-Team, working for Riot Games. By night, I'm a content creator working on my YouTube channel and three newsletters: Data Gigs [finding jobs in data], AWS Graviton Weekly and of course the DuckDB ecosystem newsletter. AWS Community Builder since 2022. I run a Talent Collective as well. Best way to contact me? Twitter link below." canonical: "https://motherduck.com/authors/marcos-ortiz/" --- # Marcos Ortiz Marcos Ortiz's photo Guest Author I'm a Data Engineer by day at X-Team, working for Riot Games. By night, I'm a content creator working on my YouTube channel and three newsletters: Data Gigs [finding jobs in data], AWS Graviton Weekly and of course the DuckDB ecosystem newsletter. AWS Community Builder since 2022. I run a Talent Collective as well. Best way to contact me? Twitter link below. ## 13 BLOG POSTS AND VIDEOS [2023/12/28 - Marcos Ortiz](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-december-2023/) ### [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: December 2023](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-december-2023) DuckDB news: WASM extensions load directly in browsers. Query 32GB anti-money laundering datasets locally. BI-as-code tools Rill and Evidence gain traction. DuckCon #4 announced. [2023/11/22 - Marcos Ortiz](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-november-2023/) ### [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: November 2023](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-november-2023) DuckDB news: Query 148TB of Hugging Face image data remotely. Awesome DuckDB resource collection launches. Benchmarks vs Spark, Dask, and Polars frameworks. [2023/10/30 - Marcos Ortiz](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-eleven/) ### [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: October 2023](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-eleven) DuckDB news: Enhanced CSV reader with dialect detection. sqlfmt formatter hits 1.5M downloads. Harlequin terminal IDE. Spatial data management course launches. [2023/09/30 - Marcos Ortiz](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-ten/) ### [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: September 2023](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-ten) DuckDB news: v0.9 adds Azure storage and Iceberg support. MotherDuck raises Series B, opens to public. Harlequin terminal IDE launches. Vector similarity search. [2023/08/21 - Marcos Ortiz](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-nine/) ### [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: August 2023](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-nine) DuckDB news: VS Code extension enables local and MotherDuck connections. Rill Data goes production. DuckDB Wasm Kit adds React hooks. Process 100s of GB with Coiled. [2023/07/17 - Marcos Ortiz](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-eight/) ### [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: July 2023](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-eight) DuckDB news: MotherDuck launches managed cloud service with hybrid execution. Apache Iceberg extension arrives. Vectorized Python UDFs added. DuckCon SF talks published. [2023/06/16 - Marcos Ortiz](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-seven/) ### [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: June 2023](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-seven) DuckDB news: Query 50,000+ Hugging Face datasets directly via SQL. FalconVis cross-filters 10 million entries. Dagster integration tutorial. Spatial extension advances. [2023/05/24 - Marcos Ortiz](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-six/) ### [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: May 2023](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-six) DuckDB news: v0.8.0 brings Pivot/Unpivot and time series joins. Project hits 10,000 GitHub stars. Spatial extension and native Swift API launch. [2023/04/17 - Marcos Ortiz](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-five/) ### [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: April 2023](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-five) DuckDB news: Mode adopts DuckDB for visual data exploration. DataCamp Workspace adds SQL-first tool. LangChain Document Loader integration. dbt extension launches. [2023/03/23 - Marcos Ortiz](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-four/) ### [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: March 2023](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-four) DuckDB news: JSON extension queries nested data as tables. Spatial analysis runs on AWS Lambda. JupySQL enables large dataset plotting. Streamlit integration. [2023/02/22 - Marcos Ortiz](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-three/) ### [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: February 2023](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-three) DuckDB news: v0.7.0 adds JSON ingestion, partitioned Parquet export, and UPSERT support. Benchmarks show 4-200x faster than Postgres on AWS cost queries. [2023/01/12 - Marcos Ortiz](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-two/) ### [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: January 2023](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-two) DuckDB news: Hits 1 million monthly PyPI downloads. Modern Data Stack in a Box runs analytics on single machine. CDC pipelines from PostgreSQL via Redpanda. [2022/12/15 - Marcos Ortiz](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-one/) ### [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-one) DuckDB news: Query 250GB Common Crawl data locally via HTTPFS. Polars and Arrow integration for Rust. Co-creator Mark Raasveldt featured. DuckCon Brussels announced. ## SUBSCRIBE ### Subscribe to MotherDuck Blog Also subscribe to other MotherDuck updates Submit