Founding Engineer at MotherDuck
Amsterdam
Joined June 2008
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Boaz Leskes retweeted
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 :-)!
duckdblabs.com/jobs/Software…
Boaz Leskes retweeted
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✌️
Boaz Leskes retweeted
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.
motherduck.com/blog/scaling-…
Boaz Leskes retweeted
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 duckdb.org/2025/03/12/duckdb…
Boaz Leskes retweeted
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:
motherduck.com/blog/introduc…
Boaz Leskes retweeted
In case you missed it: Separating Storage and Compute in DuckDB with the MotherDuck Data Warehouse - bit.ly/4gKokk5
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 docs.google.com/presentation…
Boaz Leskes retweeted
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 retweeted
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! 👀
motherduck.com/blog/pgduckdb…
Boaz Leskes retweeted
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, 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.❤️🦆
motherduck.com/blog/announci…
Boaz Leskes retweeted
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.❤️🦆
motherduck.com/blog/announci…
Boaz Leskes retweeted
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: duckdb.org/2024/06/03/announ…
Boaz Leskes retweeted
💾 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. 💾
motherduck.com/blog/differen…
Should one say more? Liverpool FC ❤️ DuckDB #duckcon4
When 47 minutes become 40s
Boaz Leskes retweeted
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: ir.cwi.nl/pub/33334/33334.pd…
Boaz Leskes retweeted
DuckDB already had one of the best CSV parsers out there. Now it’s even better thanks to the great work of @holanda_pe
There's a new CSV Parser in town.
I've totally revamped DuckDB's CSV Parser. And it has a bunch of cool optimizations, such as state-machine parsing, a new parallelism strategy, implicit casting, projection pushdown, etc...
All these improvements can result in a significant speed increase when compared to our previous parser. Depending on the machine and file, performance differences for single-file scans typically range from 2x to 4x.
Below is the parsing time of a CSV file containing TPC-H's Lineitem data. Executed on my Mac M1 Max.
Boaz Leskes retweeted
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.
motherduck.com/blog/cidr-pap…
Boaz Leskes retweeted
We just released DuckDB 0.9.0 "Undulata", check out our release announcement blog post: duckdb.org/2023/09/26/announ…
LLVMs are stil just stupid computers where you have to be explicit: "but answer with 'I don't know' instead of making something up."
Like it says - Duck and Roll.. and if you want to join this wild adventure take a look: motherduck.com/careers/
🎸 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.
motherduck.com/blog/motherdu…
