Boaz Leskes

Founding Engineer at MotherDuck

[Pedro Holanda @holanda_pe]

Heey peeps, just a reminder that we're hiring software engineer interns at DuckDB Labs! The call is open until 22nd of June!!
If you have a valid visa to work in the Netherlands and want to join us working on (in my very biased opinion) the coolest open-source analytical database system out there, please apply :-)!
https://t.co/5A4NNUKgZH

[Hamilton Ulmer @hamiltonulmer]

Excited to announce that the MotherDuck UI team is hiring!

you'll be working w/ my team to build novel SQL features like Instant SQL and dataviz like the Column Explorer – features only possible because of MotherDuck's unique architecture

SF or Seattle offices

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[MotherDuck @motherduck]

What the duck is a Duckling?! 🐥

Learn how we scale DuckDB in the cloud with per-user tenancy, vertical scaling, horizontal read scaling and dual execution. Whether building internal BI/analytics warehouses or customer-facing apps, you have to read our latest blog post.

https://t.co/W5phiwB1XQ

[DuckDB @duckdb]

DuckDB got a local UI. Thanks to our friends at MotherDuck, you can now interact with your DuckDB database through an interactive notebook, running on localhost. Read the announcement blog post at https://t.co/rv3Tsk0g45

[MotherDuck @motherduck]

Introducing MotherDuck for Business Analytics - for teams that need efficiency, speed, and security:
✅ SOC 2 Type II & GDPR compliance
✅Tiered support offerings
✅3 compute instances
✅Read Scaling for high-volume BI dashboards & data apps

Learn more:
https://t.co/mnoclSzBaj

[MotherDuck @motherduck]

In case you missed it: Separating Storage and Compute in DuckDB with the MotherDuck Data Warehouse - https://t.co/yUQOKqEUTo

[Boaz Leskes @bleskes]

Three days later, another talk - this time of a totally different nature: take DuckDB, add a great Cloud backend, and combine them with those wonderful laptops we have in our bags. What would you get? 60fps of UX joy. If you're interested slides are up at https://t.co/Gt7dNOotHK

[CWI @CWInl]

Congrats @marcinzukowski with the Dijkstra Fellowship Award for your groundbreaking work on database architecture! "I hope he will continue to build new technologies, teams and products, because he's great at it", CWI group leader Peter Boncz said in his laudation speech.

[Boaz Leskes @bleskes]

@Delta I forgot an important bag onboard a delta flight landing at jfk. I’m flying out from jfk in two days. Any where I can come and pick it up?

[MotherDuck @motherduck]

Postgres analytics 10x faster with just an extension?!

Check out our first release of pg_duckdb, an open-source PostgreSQL extension by @hydradatabase & MotherDuck.

It's already packed with awesome features! 👀

https://t.co/gm952RU9ka

[Jordan Tigani @jrdntgn]

MotherDuck is growing up... after a year in beta, learning how to operate DuckDB as a service at scale, we're now GA. Send us your SQL, we'll give you results.

[MotherDuck @motherduck]

MotherDuck, the ducking simple data warehouse, is now Generally Available! 🍾🥂 Thank you to our community of thousands of users who have tested, validated, and helped improve MotherDuck over the last year.❤️🦆
https://t.co/8wrabTBhAI

[DuckDB @duckdb]

We are proud to release the first major version of DuckDB, v1.0.0, codenamed "Snow Duck".

This version is a culmination of almost six years of research and development. Today we are shipping an innovative database system with a backwards-compatible storage format.

Check out our announcement blog post: https://t.co/w8OGx4pziT

[MotherDuck @motherduck]

💾 We just rolled out Differential Storage for our DuckDB-based data warehouse. The lead engineer on this work, Joseph Hwang, published an in-depth post on how we implemented Differential Storage under the hood. 💾

https://t.co/MGoAmCNYMy

[Boaz Leskes @bleskes]

Should one say more? Liverpool FC ❤️ DuckDB #duckcon4
When 47 minutes become 40s

[Peter Boncz @peterabcz]

At #DuckCon4, @mraasveldt & @hfmuehleisen talked about the progress of @duckdb

One v0.10 feature is ALP floating-point compression: smaller data *and* faster access.

Proud of @LeonardoKuffo & @afroozeh3 of @cwi_da for getting it merged!

SIGMOD'24 paper: https://t.co/cG0sgwMvXo

[ryan boyd @ryguyrg]

DuckDB already had one of the best CSV parsers out there. Now it’s even better thanks to the great work of @holanda_pe

[MotherDuck @motherduck]

The MotherDuck team is at the Conference on Innovative Data systems Research (CIDR) today, presenting our peer-reviewed paper on Hybrid Query Processing. Learn more from co-author @peterabcz and download the paper.

https://t.co/8CSsCzibey

[DuckDB @duckdb]

We just released DuckDB 0.9.0 "Undulata", check out our release announcement blog post: https://t.co/Kcd5vCGVG9

[Boaz Leskes @bleskes]

LLVMs are stil just stupid computers where you have to be explicit: "but answer with 'I don't know' instead of making something up."