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Matt Martin

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Staff Engineer, State Farm

Matt is a data engineering professional with over 20 years of experience designing and delivering scalable data solutions. He previously served as a Senior Manager of Data Engineering at Home Depot, and currently works on complex cloud data integration challenges at State Farm. Matt is co-author of the O'Reilly book DuckLake: The Definitive Guide.

2 BLOG POSTS AND VIDEOS

"DuckLake Performance Optimization: Faster Queries From Your Lakehouse" video thumbnail

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DuckLake Performance Optimization

Oct 27, 2026 • Alex Monahan, Matt Martin

Alex Monahan and Matt Martin, co-authors of O'Reilly's DuckLake: The Definitive Guide, walk through how to make DuckLake queries faster: finding the bottleneck, partitioning and sorting so queries skip files and row groups, tuning Parquet settings together, and keeping the catalog lean.

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SQL

MotherDuck Features

"All About DuckLake: The O'Reilly Book" video thumbnail

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All About DuckLake: The O'Reilly Book

Apr 2, 2026 • Alex Monahan, Matt Martin

Matt Martin and Alex Monahan, coauthors of O'Reilly's DuckLake: The Definitive Guide, discuss what DuckLake is, how it simplifies lakehouse architecture, and why it replaces file-based metadata with a SQL database. Includes a live Q&A and the release of Chapter 1.

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Ecosystem

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