On August 26th, Mark Raasveldt and Hannes Mühleisen published a very short note on the DuckDB blog: DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB, is becoming a subsidiary of Amazon Web Services. The deal closes in early …
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, …
The problem: httpfs ignores your environment variables If you work with DuckDB and the httpfs extension to read remote Parquet files, CSVs from S3, or any HTTP resource, you probably assume that the HTTP_PROXY and …
Every query starts with a plan. Every slow query probably starts with a bad one. And more often than not, the statistics are to blame. But how does it really work? PostgreSQL doesn’t run the query to find out — it …
