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I'm a Data Engineer by day at X-Team, working for Riot Games. By night, I'm a content creator working on my YouTube channel and three newsletters: Data Gigs [finding jobs in data], AWS Graviton Weekly and of course the DuckDB ecosystem newsletter. AWS Community Builder since 2022. I run a Talent Collective as well. Best way to contact me? Twitter link below.
2023/12/28 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: WASM extensions load directly in browsers. Query 32GB anti-money laundering datasets locally. BI-as-code tools Rill and Evidence gain traction. DuckCon #4 announced.
2023/11/22 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: Query 148TB of Hugging Face image data remotely. Awesome DuckDB resource collection launches. Benchmarks vs Spark, Dask, and Polars frameworks.
2023/10/30 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: Enhanced CSV reader with dialect detection. sqlfmt formatter hits 1.5M downloads. Harlequin terminal IDE. Spatial data management course launches.
2023/09/30 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: v0.9 adds Azure storage and Iceberg support. MotherDuck raises Series B, opens to public. Harlequin terminal IDE launches. Vector similarity search.
2023/08/21 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: VS Code extension enables local and MotherDuck connections. Rill Data goes production. DuckDB Wasm Kit adds React hooks. Process 100s of GB with Coiled.
2023/07/17 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: MotherDuck launches managed cloud service with hybrid execution. Apache Iceberg extension arrives. Vectorized Python UDFs added. DuckCon SF talks published.
2023/06/16 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: Query 50,000+ Hugging Face datasets directly via SQL. FalconVis cross-filters 10 million entries. Dagster integration tutorial. Spatial extension advances.
2023/05/24 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: v0.8.0 brings Pivot/Unpivot and time series joins. Project hits 10,000 GitHub stars. Spatial extension and native Swift API launch.
2023/04/17 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: Mode adopts DuckDB for visual data exploration. DataCamp Workspace adds SQL-first tool. LangChain Document Loader integration. dbt extension launches.
2023/03/23 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: JSON extension queries nested data as tables. Spatial analysis runs on AWS Lambda. JupySQL enables large dataset plotting. Streamlit integration.
2023/02/22 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: v0.7.0 adds JSON ingestion, partitioned Parquet export, and UPSERT support. Benchmarks show 4-200x faster than Postgres on AWS cost queries.
2023/01/12 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: Hits 1 million monthly PyPI downloads. Modern Data Stack in a Box runs analytics on single machine. CDC pipelines from PostgreSQL via Redpanda.
2022/12/15 - Marcos Ortiz
DuckDB news: Query 250GB Common Crawl data locally via HTTPFS. Polars and Arrow integration for Rust. Co-creator Mark Raasveldt featured. DuckCon Brussels announced.
