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2025/12/18 - Till Döhmen
Building the MotherDuck Remote MCP Server: A Journey Through Context Engineering and OAuth Proxies
How MotherDuck built a production-ready remote MCP server—from OAuth proxy challenges with Auth0 to tool design patterns that help AI agents query data warehouses effectively. Includes lessons from a hackathon where agents ran 4,000+
2025/12/17 - Jordan Tigani
Building an answering machine
Agents, the MotherDuck MCP Server, and self-service analytics that actually work.
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2025/12/16 - Garrett O'Brien, Jacob Matson
MotherDuck Integrates with PlanetScale Postgres
The fastest Postgres meets sub-second, serverless analytics.
2025/12/12 - Jacob Matson
Calling All SQL Sleuths: The Christmas Heist Awaits
Christmas presents have vanished! Use your SQL skills to solve the mystery on DBQuacks and win prizes. 15 challenges. One leaderboard.
2025/12/11 - Garrett O'Brien
Streaming Pipelines with MotherDuck and Artie
CDC streaming takes flight with Artie’s new MotherDuck destination.
2025/12/10
This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: December 2025
DuckDB Monthly #36: Data-at-Rest Encryption, DuckLake deep dives, and more!
2025/12/03 - Simon Späti
Simplicity of a Database, but the Speed of a Cache: OLAP Caches for DuckDB
Speed up slow dashboards without adding new infrastructure. Learn how DuckDB's caching extensions can drop query times from minutes to seconds.
2025/11/24 - Simon Späti
Branch, Test, Deploy: A Git-Inspired Approach for Data
This article explores how to bring Git style workflows like branching, testing, and deploying to your data stack. Learn how concepts like zero copy cloning and metadata pointers can finally give you isolated test environments.
2025/11/19 - Diptanu Gon Choudhury
Unstructured Document Analysis with Tensorlake and MotherDuck
Learn how to query unstructured documents with friendly SQL!
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!
2025/11/12 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem: November 2025
DuckDB Monthly #35: DuckDB extensions, DuckLake, DataFrame, and more!
2025/10/30 - Simon Späti
4 Senior Data Engineers Answer 10 Top Reddit Questions
A great panel answering the most voted/commented data questions on Reddit
2025/10/28 - Jordan Tigani
Faster Ducks
Benchmarks, efficiency, and how MotherDuck just got nearly 20% faster.
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.
2025/10/08 - Mehdi Ouazza
Why Python Developers Need DuckDB (And Not Just Another DataFrame Library)
Understand why a database is much more than just a dataframe library
2025/10/07 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem: October 2025
DuckDB Monthly #34: DuckDB 1.4.0 LTS, 100× Spark benchmarks, official Docker image and more!
