Boaz Leskes Profile
Boaz Leskes

@bleskes

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Founding Engineer at MotherDuck

Amsterdam
Joined June 2008
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@hamiltonulmer
Hamilton Ulmer
6 months
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 link in reply✌️
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@motherduck
MotherDuck
6 months
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.
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@duckdb
DuckDB
8 months
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
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@motherduck
MotherDuck
9 months
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
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Introducing new features designed to better support businesses looking for their first data warehouse, including SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance, tiered support, read scaling, and a new Business...
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@motherduck
MotherDuck
10 months
In case you missed it: Separating Storage and Compute in DuckDB with the MotherDuck Data Warehouse -
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Why separate storage and compute in DuckDB, how we do it in MotherDuck to enable sharing and future work.
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@bleskes
Boaz Leskes
11 months
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
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Good day everyone. Today, I’m going to talk about what can happen if you take a brilliant compute engine, the scalable cloud infrastructure, and those wonderful machines we all carry in our bags. But...
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@CWInl
CWI
11 months
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.
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@motherduck
MotherDuck
1 year
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
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pg_duckdb makes elephants fly, marking its first release.
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@jrdntgn
Jordan Tigani
1 year
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
1 year
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
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@motherduck
MotherDuck
1 year
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
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Turbocharge DuckDB's efficiency with multiplayer cloud analytics
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@duckdb
DuckDB
1 year
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
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@motherduck
MotherDuck
2 years
💾 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
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Differential Storage: A Key Building Block For A DuckDB-Based Data Warehouse
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@bleskes
Boaz Leskes
2 years
Should one say more? Liverpool FC ❤️ DuckDB #duckcon4 When 47 minutes become 40s
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@peterabcz
Peter Boncz
2 years
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
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ryan boyd
2 years
DuckDB already had one of the best CSV parsers out there. Now it’s even better thanks to the great work of @holanda_pe
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@motherduck
MotherDuck
2 years
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
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MotherDuck released its paper on Hybrid Query Processing at the Conference on Innovative Data (systems) Research [CIDR].
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@bleskes
Boaz Leskes
2 years
LLVMs are stil just stupid computers where you have to be explicit: "but answer with 'I don't know' instead of making something up."
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Boaz Leskes
2 years
Like it says - Duck and Roll.. and if you want to join this wild adventure take a look:
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Want to help make analytics ducking awesome? Join MotherDuck as a software engineer or in another role in your data career!
@motherduck
MotherDuck
2 years
🎸 Duck and Roll! MotherDuck is now open for all data analysts, data engineers and data scientists. Plus, we closed our Series B for a total of $100M in the nest. Get started with DuckDB in the cloud today. https://t.co/VecGAzF6GF
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