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2026/04/24 - Simon Späti
Internal vs. External Storage: What's the Limit of External Tables?
25 years of external tables, from Oracle 9i to DuckLake. When to use internal storage vs. external tables, why they keep getting re-added to every major data warehouse, and a benchmark showing the speed tax for cold data.
2026/04/21 - Dumky de Wilde
MotherDuck on Cloudflare Workers
Build a real-time voting app on Cloudflare Workers that queries MotherDuck through the Postgres endpoint, using Durable Objects for live state and the pg package for analytical workloads.
2026/04/20 - Mehdi Ouazza, Samantha Lohier, Leonardo Vida
MotherDuck Skills: Teaching Your AI Agents to Do Analytics
MotherDuck Agent Skills is an open-source catalog that teaches AI coding agents how to work with MotherDuck: exploring schemas, writing DuckDB SQL, using the REST API, and building Dives. If MCP gives agents hands, skills give them a playbook.
2026/04/20 - Mehdi Ouazza, Samantha Lohier, Leonardo Vida
MotherDuck Skills: Teaching Your AI Agents to Do Analytics
MotherDuck Agent Skills is an open-source catalog that teaches AI coding agents how to work with MotherDuck: exploring schemas, writing DuckDB SQL, using the REST API, and building Dives. If MCP gives agents hands, skills give them a playbook.
2026/04/17 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter : April 2026
DuckLake 1.0 ships, Lance adds vector search, Rust-native extension
2026/04/16 - Alex Monahan
Announcing DuckLake 1.0 on MotherDuck
MotherDuck now supports DuckLake 1.0, the open table lakehouse format designed for simplicity and low latency. Learn what's new in the 1.0 release, including data inlining, clustering, bucket partitioning, geometry and variant types, plus multi-engine support. Learn how DuckLake compares with Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake.
2026/04/15 - Jordan Tigani
Water Town: The Agent Swarm Data Stack
In a fully agentic world, will we still need analytics at all? A particularly unhinged example might offer some clues.
2026/04/10 - Mehdi Ouazza
Your AI dashboard looks cool. Nobody learns anything from it
Five fundamental data visualization principles that transform AI-generated dashboards from pretty charts into actionable insights. Learn chart selection, design, narrative, and interactivity.
2026/04/08 - Aditya Somani
Building a Text-to-SQL Agent with DuckDB, MotherDuck and LangChain
Learn how to build a text-to-SQL LLM and LangChain SQL agent with DuckDB and MotherDuck, including schema inspection, query checking, and self-correction.
2026/04/03 - Jordan Tigani
Consulting the Oracle: Claude on the Future of Data
What does AI think its own impact will be on the data and analytics industry? I asked Claude to share its predictions on the Modern Data Stack, data jobs, and the future of analytics.
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.
2026/03/27 - Simon Späti
Specs Over Vibes: Consistent AI Results ft. Mark Freeman
Mark Freeman, Head of DevRel at Gable, shares his Spec-Driven Development workflow for producing high-quality, reproducible AI outcomes using Claude Code, ExcaliDraw diagrams, JSON schemas, and agent teams with tmux.
2026/03/25 - Ryan Boyd, Mehdi Ouazza
The Dive Gallery Is Live: Share Your Interactive Data Apps With the World
Share interactive, AI-built data apps with anyone through a unique link — queries run live on MotherDuck compute.
2026/03/24 - Alex Monahan
Don't Fear the Agents - AI on the Data Lakehouse
Learn how MotherDuck's Hosted DuckLake combines lakehouse scale (borrowing the best ideas from Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake) with low latency and agent sandbox isolation, making it the simplest data lakehouse for AI-powered agentic workflows.
2026/03/23 - Jordan Tigani
Future Casting the Modern Data Stack
If the Modern Data Stack isn't yet dead, it's at least incredibly sleepy. AI is bringing the "long run" closer than ever — here's what might come next for ETL, BI, data warehouses, and the role of data engineers.
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.
