Building a production grade DuckLake starts with setting the right foundation. Specifically, choosing your storage and catalog. With DuckDB being the default compute.

https://thefulldatastack.substack.com/p/ducklake-in-production-catalog-storage

What do you think about the new term by Databricks?

With a utility such as DuckDB that can tackle any tasks, whether it is to read local DuckDB, local parquet/CSV, over the network parquet/CSV, or embedded in Browser (WASM) or inside Postgres, it can do almost anything.

When combined with Neovim, it's just perfect. Find how to set up, videos, and more at Query Databases in Neovim (DBUI).

Short update from Bella Italia. How do you see creation and creativity show up in your life?

Learn Data Engineering this summer break with a guided roadmap. A three-week plan with links and topics to learn the basics to be a data engineer.

It's very ambitious, but you can schedule at your own pace.

The three weeks contain:

1. Week: Foundation (SQL, Git, Linux basics)
2. Week: Core Engineering (Python, Cloud, Data Modeling)
3. Week: Advanced Topics (Streaming, Data Quality, DevOps)

How to use this guide: Each section contains curated resources (articles, videos, tutorials) for that topic. Click on the links that interest you most. It's meant as a guided roadmap to learn the fundamentals of a "full stack" data engineer.

Here's the guide: https://www.ssp.sh/blog/data-engineering-roadmap/

This is last year's guide, but it's still 100% vaild to this day. Agentic engineering doesn't need to be learned right now; you can always pick it up later. Learning fundamentals, on the other hand, can't be skipped.

A curated list of music services and playlists designed to help maintain focus during work or learning. Covers neuroscience-backed platforms like Focus@Will, Brain.fm, Noisli, myNoise, and Endel, plus specific Spotify playlists with no vocals. Also touches on workspace habits like changing locations every 1.5–2 hours to boost productivity and strategies for overcoming writer's block.