DuckDB breaks the lakehouse ? ft. Daniel Beach

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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👋 HostsMehdi 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/motherduckX/Twitter : https://twitter.com/motherduckBlog: https://motherduck.com/blog/00:00 Cold open · who's on today01:43 Catalog commits · Delta + Unity Catalog + DuckDB10:46 Cloudflare unified data platform · Skipper agent17:53 Education in the age of AI · language as interface24:39 ADBC · the next-gen database connection30:17 SoloTerm · the terminal in the browser38:56 The orchestration tax · Addy Osmani40:38 Mitchell Hashimoto · an agent in a loop45:50 Databricks Zerobus · streaming into the lakehouse47:06 Outro#DuckDB #DataEngineering #Lakehouse #DeltaLake #UnityCatalog #Cloudflare #AIagents #ApacheArrow #ADBC #MotherDuck

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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...

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