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  1. 2d ago

    DuckDB breaks the lakehouse ? ft. Daniel Beach

    Daniel Beach (Data Engineering Central) joins Mehdi and Dumky for a tour through the open lakehouse renaissance, AI-native data agents, and the slow grind of getting humans out of the orchestration loop. We cover the catalog commits feature in Delta + Unity Catalog + DuckDB (multi-writer lakehouse without Spark), Cloudflare's new unified data platform and their AI agent Skipper, ADBC quietly replacing JDBC/ODBC, Aaron Francis launching SoloTerm, Addy Osmani on the orchestration tax, Mitchell Hashimoto getting a 40x speedup with an agent in a loop. Subscribe + all links: motherduck.com/explain-analyze 👋 Hosts Mehdi Ouazza —  @mehdio  Dumky de Wilde Guest: Daniel Beach (Data Engineering Central) —  @dataengineeringdan  Check out Daniel Beach's work on https://dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/ ➡️ Follow Us LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/motherduck X/Twitter : https://twitter.com/motherduck Blog: https://motherduck.com/blog/ 00:00 Cold open · who's on today 01:43 Catalog commits · Delta + Unity Catalog + DuckDB 10:46 Cloudflare unified data platform · Skipper agent 17:53 Education in the age of AI · language as interface 24:39 ADBC · the next-gen database connection 30:17 SoloTerm · the terminal in the browser 38:56 The orchestration tax · Addy Osmani 40:38 Mitchell Hashimoto · an agent in a loop 45:50 Databricks Zerobus · streaming into the lakehouse 47:06 Outro #DuckDB #DataEngineering #Lakehouse #DeltaLake #UnityCatalog #Cloudflare #AIagents #ApacheArrow #ADBC #MotherDuck

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AI and data news, digested by veterans from the field. Less hype. More signal. Get all show notes here. Podcast by MotherDuck