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# This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: August 2023

## Hey, friend 👋

It’s [Marcos](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlortiz) again, aka “*DuckDB News Reporter*” with another issue of “This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem for August 2023.

This month proves what we are already seeing in our internal channels: the DuckDB ecosystem is growing stronger with time: more companies like [Rill Data](https://www.rilldata.com/blog/fast-duckdb-powered-dashboards) are considering using DuckDB for production environments, more people [are considering DuckDB for fast data analysis development](https://motherduck.com/blog/exploring-stackoverflow-with-duckdb-on-motherduck-1/), and so on.

As always we share here, this is a two-way conversation: if you have any feedback on this newsletter, feel free to send us an email to *duckdbnews@motherduck.com*

-Marcos

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## Featured Community Member

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  <div class="columnPic"><img src="https://motherduck-com-web-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/img/Gcv8_N_Ia_A_400x400_2a2e08f995.jpg?updated_at=2023-08-18T14:35:51.842Z"></img></div>
  <div class="columnText columnTextRight"><h3>Archie Sarre Wood</h3>
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Archie Sarre Wood is Head of community at [Evidence](https://evidence.dev/) an open source, code-based alternative to drag-and-drop BI tools. He has recently built a great [VS Code extension for DuckDB.](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Evidence.sqltools-duckdb-driver). It allows you to connect to a local, in-memory or MotherDuck (via service token) DuckDB instance and run queries. It also supports exploring db, tables and columns in the explorer view among other features!

Learn more about Archie [here](https://twitter.com/archieemwood).

## Top DuckDB Links this Month

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### [dlt-dbt-DuckDB-MotherDuck: My super simple and highly customizable approach to the Modern Data Stack in a box](https://dlthub.com/docs/blog/dlt-motherduck-demo)

[Rahul Joshi](https://github.com/rahuljo) talks about Modern Data Stack in a box with dtl, DuckDB, Motherduck and Metabase.

### [Exploring StackOverflow with DuckDB on Motherduck](https://motherduck.com/blog/exploring-stackoverflow-with-duckdb-on-motherduck-1/)

![stack](https://motherduck-com-web-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/img/image2_512b974ee9.png?updated_at=2023-08-18T14:35:35.724Z)

[Michael Hunger](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jexpde/) proved in this post that DuckDB is powerful enough to analyze a rich dataset like StackOverflow data. And yes: he used Motherduck for it.

### [Fast DuckDB-Powered Dashboards with Rill and MotherDuck](https://www.rilldata.com/blog/fast-duckdb-powered-dashboards)

![fast](https://motherduck-com-web-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/img/image3_973047a7ff.png?updated_at=2023-08-18T14:35:34.445Z)

[Katie Staveley](https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherinestaveley/) shows in this post how the integration between Motherduck and Rill Data works smoothly.

### [DuckDB vs. The Titans: Spark, Elasticsearch, MongoDB — A Comparative Study in Performance and Cost](https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/duckdb-vs-the-titans-spark-elasticsearch-mongodb-a-comparative-study-in-performance-and-cost-5366b27d5aaa)

[Jianzhen Shu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiazhen-zhu/) did a very interesting comparison between these Titans.

### [A Comprehensive Guide for Using DuckDB With Go](https://hackernoon.com/a-comprehensive-guide-for-using-duckdb-with-go)

![go](https://motherduck-com-web-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/img/image1_7ac864f952.jpg?updated_at=2023-08-18T14:35:34.525Z)

[Sergey Olontsev](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergeyolontsev/) provides an interactive way to combine the power of Golang and DuckDB.

### [Process Hundreds of GBs of Data with Coiled Functions and DuckDB](https://medium.com/coiled-hq/process-hundreds-of-gb-of-data-with-coiled-functions-and-duckdb-4b7df2f84d2f)

![coiled](https://motherduck-com-web-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/img/image7_b821d30b21.jpg?updated_at=2023-08-18T14:35:34.424Z)

[Patrick Höfler](https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-hoefler/) shares a very interesting use case for DuckDB: combining it with Coiled Functions.

### [DuckDB vs. MotherDuck — should you switch to the cloud version?](https://kestra.io/blogs/2023-07-28-duckdb-vs-motherduck)

![kestra](https://motherduck-com-web-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/img/image4_3b40c3f500.png?updated_at=2023-08-18T14:35:37.632Z)

[Anna Geller](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-geller-12a86811a/) provides an interesting perspective on which version of DuckDB to use: your local DuckDB instance or the managed DuckDB from Motherduck.

### [Exploring the Overture Maps places data using DuckDB, sqlite-utils and Datasette](https://til.simonwillison.net/overture-maps/overture-maps-parquet)

[Simon Willison](https://twitter.com/simonw) shares his interesting perspective about working with maps and DuckDB, sqlite-utils, and Datasette.

### [Observability and Log Analytics with DuckDB](https://neogeografia.wordpress.com/2023/08/02/observability-and-log-analytics-with-duckdb/)

![obs](https://motherduck-com-web-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/img/image5_33092cb039.jpg?updated_at=2023-08-18T14:35:35.071Z)

Juan Carlos Méndez plays with the idea of using DuckDB for observability and log analytics

### [DuckDB Wasm Kit](https://www.npmjs.com/package/duckdb-wasm-kit)

Hooks and utilities to make it easier to use duckdb-wasm in React apps. Created by [Matt Holden](https://twitter.com/holdenmatt).

## Upcoming events

### DataEngBytes - August 2023

[DataEngBytes](https://dataengconf.com.au/) is a unique annual conference happening across four cities in Australia.

[Ryan Boyd](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryguyrg/) from MotherDuck and many others data leaders will present awesome talks!

### London low key data meetup MotherDuck & LEIT Data - 19th September 2023

Join MotherDuck and LEIT Data for a low-key data meetup right before Big Data London conference!
More info about the event [here](https://www.linkedin.com/events/datameetup7094602008241790976/). Don't forget [to register](https://forms.zohopublic.eu/leitdata/form/DataMeetUpRegistration2/formperma/tTXymC4T9Bqy798f0-DVsqpL20PRoMjIK-82i0daj-s) to get a free drink!

### MotherDuck Meetup User group - September 2023

MotherDuck, in collaboration with [Dataroots](https://dataroots.io/), is pleased to announce our very first in-person user meetup group in Belgium on 25th September to talk about MotherDuck, DuckDB and all the things data.

Full agenda and registration [here](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/motherduck-duckdb-user-meetup-be-september-2023-edition-1-tickets-685756505167?aff=oddtdtcreator).