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Release of Polars 2.0
Today we are shipping Polars 2.0. In the earlier announcement post we went through the rationale of the version bump. This post we will discuss what features 2.0 brings. Even though we didn’t intend to make it a big feature release, it still packs a lot to get enthousiastic about.
Lobsters7 min readIntroducing Cloudflare Basin: an open, serverless data platform, now generally available
Cloudflare Basin is built on Apache Iceberg and R2 Object Storage. With general availability, developers can ingest, manage, and query large datasets at scale without paying data egress fees.
Moltworker Blog10 min readAWS embeds DuckDB in its PostgreSQL DBMS to speed queries of live and historical data
Amazon Web Services Inc. is adding the ability to query the popular Apache Iceberg data lake directly from its Aurora PostgreSQL database management system, allowing applications to combine live transactions with historical records without copying data or creating extract/transform/load pipelines.
SiliconANGLE4 min readHow We Built LangChain’s Paid Media Agent
How LangChain built a paid media agent to analyze campaign performance, optimize ads, propose changes, and turn marketing data into action.
LangChain Blog18 min readWe cut new-hire ramp time in half. Here is the exact 7-step blueprint.
Introduction I onboarded in a haze of wiki tabs, stale Notion pages, and Slack DMs that went unanswered for hours. You have seen it too. The new person who wants to ship but spends three weeks hunting down a policy doc or the right MongoDB connection string.
PromptQL Blog11 min readScraping 107M rows of data to build this
I scraped 107 million rows of UK council spending data and built an ‘Apple Maps’ to see what each council spent, on what.
AI News & Strategy by Ben Bites7 min readAWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026)
The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the popular open source analytical database that runs in-process and executes SQL directly against files like Parquet,…
AWS AI Category5 min readGladys 4.83: Faster Activity, DuckDB Cleanup & 2FA 🚀
Gladys 4.83 makes the Activity page instant even on huge databases, cleans up orphaned DuckDB states, redesigns Gladys Plus 2FA, and adds seconds on scene state triggers.
Gladys Assistant Blog4 min readFixing a DuckDB table function migration
How Codex fixed a DuckDB v1.3.2 table function migration with version-specific source from GitHits.
GitHits beta 0.9 Blog3 min readWhy SQL Is the Right Language for Search-OLAP
Why SQL is the right language for Search-OLAP: BM25 scores and vector distances belong in the same query plan as your joins and aggregations.
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