AWS Acquires DuckLabs: What Changes and What Doesn't for DuckDB Users
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Databases
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Five Years Connecting Data Warehouses: What I've Learned
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In April 2021 I made my first commit to the monorepo behind CARTO’s cloud-native platform. It was PR number 9, a docker-compose. Five years later I’ve looked back with some calm and found around 450 commits, around 447 pull requests, and a presence in virtually every service in the repository.
The numbers aren’t the interesting part. What’s interesting is that, going through that history, a thread shows up that I hadn’t fully identified myself: I’ve spent half a decade connecting the platform to other people’s data warehouses. Six different providers — BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, Oracle and PostgreSQL — each with its own credential model, its pooling, its timeouts and its error messages.
A2A vs MCP: Tools or Agents? The difference that will change how we build AI systems
6 min read
Two protocols, two philosophies
In recent months, two protocols have emerged that will change how we build AI systems: Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) from Google and Model Context Protocol (MCP) from Anthropic. But here’s the thing: they don’t compete with each other.
In fact, after analyzing both for weeks, I’ve realized that understanding the difference between A2A and MCP is crucial for anyone building AI systems beyond simple chatbots.
The key lies in one question: Are you connecting an AI with tools, or are you coordinating multiple intelligences?