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Ryan Boyd

Co-Founder & VP, Marketing + DevRel

Ryan started his career as a software engineer, but since has led DevRel teams for 15+ years at Google, Databricks and Neo4j, where he developed and executed numerous marketing and DevRel programs.

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Introducing Mega and Giga Ducklings: Scaling Up, Way Up

2025/07/17 - Ryan Boyd

Introducing Mega and Giga Ducklings: Scaling Up, Way Up

New MotherDuck instance sizes allow data warehousing users more flexibility for complex queries and transformations. Need more compute to scale up? Megas and Gigas will help!

Small Data SF Returns November 4-5, 2025: First Speakers Announced

2025/07/17 - Ryan Boyd

Small Data SF Returns November 4-5, 2025: First Speakers Announced

Conference with two days of practical innovation on data and AI: workshops and talks from industry leaders, including Benn Stancil, Joe Reis, Adi Polak, George Fraser, Jordan Tigani, Holden Karau, Ravin Kumar, Sam Alexander and more!

MotherDuck Managed DuckLakes Now in Preview: Scale to Petabytes

2025/07/01 - Ryan Boyd

MotherDuck Managed DuckLakes Now in Preview: Scale to Petabytes

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 support for massive scale historical data.

Taming Wild CSVs: Advanced DuckDB Techniques for Data Engineers

2025/05/17 - Ryan Boyd

Taming Wild CSVs: Advanced DuckDB Techniques for Data Engineers

How to ingest and query CSV files in DuckDB using auto-detection, sniffing, manual configuration and more.

DuckDB Tutorial For Beginners

2024/10/31 - Mehdi Ouazza, Ryan Boyd

DuckDB Tutorial For Beginners

Get up to speed quickly with DuckDB, including installation, VSCode workflow integration and your first SQL analytics project.

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: June 2024

2024/06/08 - Ryan Boyd

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: June 2024

DuckDB Monthly: DuckDB 1.0.0, Hugging Face data sets, chron expressions, and more!

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: February 2024

2024/03/01 - Ryan Boyd

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: February 2024

DuckDB Monthly: Featuring DuckDB 0.10.0, Christophe Oudar, new (free) book chapters, DuckCon videos and more!

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: January 2024

2024/01/30 - Ryan Boyd

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: January 2024

DuckDB Monthly January: Featuring Mihai Bojin & Marcelo Cenerino , top content, and upcoming events!

Announcing: DuckDB code snippet sets with MotherDuck Sharing

2023/11/28 - Ryan Boyd

Announcing: DuckDB code snippet sets with MotherDuck Sharing

The DuckDB Snippets site has been upgrade to include sharing sets of code snippets in SQL and Python plus also sharing data with MotherDuck share URLs.

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