17 POSTS
2025/12/19 - Ryan Boyd
Stop Paying the Complexity Tax
My personal reflections from watching Jordan Tigani’s keynote "The Unbearable Bigness of Small Data" at Small Data SF. Most data warehouses are overbuilt for scale you'll never need. Learn how to stop paying the complexity tax.
2025/07/17 - Ryan Boyd
Introducing Mega and Giga Ducklings: Scaling Up, Way Up
New MotherDuck instance sizes allow data warehousing users more flexibility for complex queries and transformations. Need more compute to scale up? Megas and Gigas will help!
2025/07/17 - Ryan Boyd
Small Data SF Returns November 4-5, 2025: First Speakers Announced
Conference with two days of practical innovation on data and AI: workshops and talks from industry leaders, including Benn Stancil, Joe Reis, Adi Polak, George Fraser, Jordan Tigani, Holden Karau, Ravin Kumar, Sam Alexander and more!
2025/07/01 - Ryan Boyd
MotherDuck Managed DuckLakes Now in Preview: Scale to Petabytes
Preview support of MotherDuck includes both fully-managed DuckLake support and ability to bring your own bucket. Combined with MotherDuck's storage, you get both high-speed access to recent data and support for massive scale historical data.
2025/05/17 - Ryan Boyd
Taming Wild CSVs: Advanced DuckDB Techniques for Data Engineers
How to ingest and query CSV files in DuckDB using auto-detection, sniffing, manual configuration and more.
2025/04/16 - Ryan Boyd
How MotherDuck Scales DuckDB in the Cloud vertically and horizontally
aka What the duck is a Duckling?
2024/10/31 - Mehdi Ouazza, Ryan Boyd
DuckDB Tutorial For Beginners
Learn DuckDB from scratch: install in 2 minutes, set up VSCode, and build your first SQL analytics project. No database experience required.
2024/07/16 - Ryan Boyd
New Collaboration Features: Org-level sharing and Auto-Join
Bring the Flock Together!
2024/06/08 - Ryan Boyd
This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: June 2024
DuckDB news: v1.0.0 Snow Duck is production-ready. Query 150,000+ Hugging Face datasets directly. Crunchy Bridge adds DuckDB analytics to PostgreSQL. RAG implementations.
2024/03/01 - Ryan Boyd
This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: February 2024
DuckDB news: v0.10.0 adds backwards-compatible storage and faster CSV parsing. PyAirbyte uses DuckDB as default cache. DuckDB-NSQL-7B LLM generates SQL locally.
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