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2026/10/09 - Simon Späti
Josh Wills, creator of dbt-duckdb and former head of data engineering at Slack, on why the model barely matters, why agents still write ugly and expensive data pipelines, and why data engineering is still the cache invalidation problem.
2026/10/06 - Mehdi Ouazza
Five prompt_jev() use cases on real data, with SQL you can rerun: AI agent traces, Hacker News sentiment, sales calls, cloud job postings and a regex replacement.
2026/10/05 - Alex Monahan
Data Outpost kicks off on November 4, 2026 in San Francisco with 11 hands-on workshops from MotherDuck, Vercel, Sigma, Prefect, Estuary, Airbyte, Reducto, Braintrust, and Together AI. Here's what you'll build in each one: your own agents, the data pipelines they need, and the skills to run them in production.
2026/10/05 - Alex Monahan
Data Outpost kicks off on November 4, 2026 in San Francisco with 11 hands-on workshops from MotherDuck, Vercel, Sigma, Prefect, Estuary, Airbyte, Reducto, Braintrust, and Together AI. Here's what you'll build in each one: your own agents, the data pipelines they need, and the skills to run them in production.
2026/10/01 - Alex Monahan
Data Outpost is an AI and data conference in San Francisco. Its main day, November 5, 2026, has 13 talks and panels from teams at Canva, Stripe, DoorDash, Posit, dbt and more. Here's what each session covers, from agents that write back to context layers, SQL harnesses, and AI for regulated data, and what you'll walk away with.
2026/09/29 - Mehdi Ouazza
Turn a free-text column into typed SQL columns with prompt_jev(): 100,000 consumer complaints classified in 82 seconds, at about 1% of a frontier LLM's cost, plus how to check the labels before you trust them.
2026/09/22 - Dumky de Wilde
Common Crawl publishes petabytes of web crawl data on S3. With DuckDB and MotherDuck you can query the Common Crawl dataset directly, no cluster and no download, and measure how fast the vibe-coded web is growing.
2026/09/21 - Alex Monahan
Define your dashboards in YAML with dbt Charts, then the same dbt build that runs your pipeline deploys them to MotherDuck Dives. Just 2 config changes! Your Dives will refresh live whenever your stakeholders take a look. See how we constructed the dbt package as well.
2026/09/21 - Hamilton Ulmer, Till Döhmen, Jacob Matson
Classify text in SQL with prompt_jev(), powered by TypeSafe's Jev. 100,000 rows labeled in 40 seconds for $0.50 at frontier-LLM accuracy. Live on paid plans.
2026/09/16 - Simon Späti
The September 2026 DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter: DuckLabs joins AWS and MotherDuck acquires Tower, DuckDB v2.0-alpha lands, table functions in pure Java, bulk loads into SQL Server, Zarr stores as SQL tables, an infinite canvas for your data, plus a community spotlight on Vladimir Gribanov.
2026/09/15 - Dumky de Wilde
SQLite, Postgres, DuckDB and 20 others: they all write, store and read data. The questions you ask every day tell you which one you need.
2026/09/14 - Kaitlyn Henry
We're launching commercial support for open-source DuckDB, so every organization can get the power of a modern data engine, with direct access to database experts.
2026/09/10 - Mehdi Ouazza
DuckDB 2.0 alpha vs 1.5.5 on one laptop: recursive CTEs up to 90x, VARIANT 6x faster than JSON text, async I/O 2.4x on S3. What changes, and how to model data to get the speedup.
2026/09/02 - Simon Späti
A primer on the context layer, semantic layer, and ontology: what each term means, how they fit together, and why AI agents still need a human to decide what's true.
2026/09/02 - Alex Monahan
We analyzed a slice of MotherDuck query history and found agents ran 29 times more queries than humans last month, a gap that has roughly doubled every month. The average organization now has twice as many agents as human users. Agents are the dominant consumers of the data platform, and our systems can't afford to stay the same.
2026/08/28 - Alex Monahan
If your laptop has 16GB of RAM, your agent can write SQL locally for free with Qwen3.8 27B. On the DABstep SQL benchmark, Qwen beat GPT 5.6 Luna and cost under 50 cents in electricity, over 17x less. Add DuckDB and you have a data analyst that runs on your own machine. This post covers the benchmark results and walks through the setup, including which quantized model to download for your laptop.
2026/08/27 - Mehdi Ouazza, MotherDuck team
Meet the MotherDuck CLI: one install to query data, publish Python pipelines, and host dashboards from your terminal, for coding agents and CI alike.
2026/08/26 - Jordan Tigani
Today Duck Labs, the developers of DuckDB, announced they are being acquired by Amazon. This is big news in the duck-iverse, and many people are wondering what this will mean for everyone’s favorite duck-powered database, MotherDuck.
2026/08/25 - Jordan Tigani