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DuckDB breaks the lakehouse? ft. Daniel Beach

June 5, 202647:06

Hosted by Mehdi Ouazza, Dumky de Wilde · With Daniel Beach (Data Engineering Central)

Daniel Beach (Data Engineering Central) joins Mehdi and Dumky for a tour through the open lakehouse renaissance: catalog commits bring multi-writer Delta + Unity Catalog + DuckDB without Spark, Cloudflare ships a unified data platform with an AI agent called Skipper, ADBC quietly replaces JDBC/ODBC, Aaron Francis launches SoloTerm, Addy Osmani names the orchestration tax, and Mitchell Hashimoto gets a 40x speedup with an agent in a loop.

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DuckDB breaks the lakehouse? ft. Daniel Beach cover

Jun 5, 202647:06with Daniel Beach

DuckDB breaks the lakehouse? ft. Daniel Beach

Daniel Beach (Data Engineering Central) joins Mehdi and Dumky for a tour through the open lakehouse renaissance: catalog commits bring multi-writer Delta + Unity Catalog + DuckDB without Spark, Cloudflare ships a unified data platform with an AI agent called Skipper, ADBC quietly replaces JDBC/ODBC, Aaron Francis launches SoloTerm, Addy Osmani names the orchestration tax, and Mitchell Hashimoto gets a 40x speedup with an agent in a loop.

161k GitHub stars in 4 months with 65 lines of Markdown cover

May 29, 202652:27

161k GitHub stars in 4 months with 65 lines of Markdown

A 65-line Markdown skill file racks up 161k GitHub stars in four months — more than two-thirds of the Linux kernel. Mehdi and Dumky dig into GitHub turning into a social platform, GitHub Action supply-chain attacks, Bret Victor's ladder of abstraction, slow tech, evals for everyone, and Lenny's AI paradox.

AI tooling wars: Bun, Claude, and open source under fire cover

May 22, 202655:03

AI tooling wars: Bun, Claude, and open source under fire

Bun ditches Zig for Rust, Anthropic pulls the rug on pricing, agents are rewriting how databases work, and open source maintainers are drowning. Mehdi and Alex pick apart the AI tooling wars and why your brain feels fried.