MotherDuck is launching Flights, an agent-native data pipeline that enables users to choose the MCP server and AI agent of their choice to build and deploy data pipelines in minutes using a flexible, ...

In the dashboard, the Ask tab takes a plain-English question, grounds it in the live schema, generates DuckDB SQL, and runs it read-only — but only after it clears a layered validation pipeline (L1–L7 ...

Every data engineering team right now is being asked the same question: "How do we build a chatbot that talks to our data?" The prototypes are deceptively simple. A developer connects GPT-5.1 to a ...

Python, R, or SQL: Which reigns supreme in 2025's data science landscape? Compare trends and use cases to choose best language for your data science projects. The data science industry is booming, ...

Since its launch in 2013, Databricks has relied on its ecosystem of partners, such as Fivetran, Rudderstack, and dbt, to provide tools for data preparation and loading. But now, at its annual Data + ...

Apache Airflow is a platform for managing data pipeline that is written in Python, used for creating and scheduling tasks. Being entirely based on code, it is extensively used in data engineering for ...

Earlier this year, I had the privilege of serving on the organizing committee for the DataTune conference in my hometown of Nashville, Tenn. Unlike many database-specific or platform-specific ...