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DSDSD is back! Next Friday 24/02 we are pleased to host David Vos (David Vos) and Immanuel Trummer (Immanuel Trummer) with two talks, about "Towards Parameter-Efficient Automation of Data Wrangling Tasks with Prefix-Tuning" and "Leveraging Generative AI for Data Processing"

Announcing a special DSDSD talk tomorrow (14th of March) at 15:00 CET by Holger Pirk titled: "Bring Your own Kernel! Constructing High-Performance Data Management Systems from Components". Zoom details will follow by mail. Hope to see you there!

Announcing the next DSDSD on the 24th of March starting at 15:30 CET, 10:30 EDT, 07:30 PDT! The speakers will be Jens d’Hondt from TU Eindhoven & Pavel Klinov 🇪🇺 from Stardog. More details to follow through the mailing list.

Announcing the upcoming DSDSD on the 14th of April starting at 15:30 CET, 10:30 EDT, 07:30 PDT! The speakers will be Till Döhmen from Intelligent Data Engineering Lab & Psallidas Fotis from Microsoft Gray Systems Lab. More details on the mailing lists and website. Hope to see you there!

Announcing the next edition of DSDSD on the 2nd of June starting at 15:30 CET, 10:30 EDT, 07:30 PDT! The speakers will be Laurens Kuiper from DuckDB Labs / CWI DA & Andrew Lamb from InfluxData. More details on the mailing lists and website. Hope to see you there!

The recording of my "Building InfluxData IOx from 'scratch'" talk at Dutch Seminar on Data Systems Design is now available youtu.be/Y5K2Ik2oo-8. The slides and other talks are at andrew.nerdnetworks.org. That is a very cool venue and I was honored to speak there.

Last Friday, we had a great DSDSD session with talks by Laurens Kuiper from DuckDB Labs & Andrew Lamb from InfluxData! Check out our YouTube channel for their presentations in case you missed it youtube.com/@dsdsd-dutchse…

Announcing a special DSDSD on the 23rd of June starting at 4pm CET, 11am EDT, 9am PDT! Yingjun Wu 🚀 from RisingWave will talk about "Decoupling Compute and Storage for Stream Processing Systems: Benefits, Limitations, and Insights". More details through the mailing list.

Last Friday Yingjun Wu 🚀 from RisingWave gave an interesting talk titled "Decoupling Compute and Storage for Stream Processing Systems". Missed it? Check it out on YouTube! youtu.be/xwr6w4TbOD0

Announcing a special DSDSD on the 29th of September starting at 4pm CET, 11am EDT, 9am PDT! Viktor Rosenfeld from TU Berlin will talk about "Query Processing On Heterogeneous Systems". More details through the mailing list and website. Hope to see you all there!

We are announcing the upcoming Master's theses topics in database engineering & research in Amsterdam - at either CWI DA, MotherDuck or Databricks . Feel free to spread this to your fellow students/colleagues! More info here: shorturl.at/sFPRV | bit.ly/cwida-msc-2023

Announcing the next edition of DSDSD on the 24th of November starting at 15:30 CET, 10:30 EDT, 07:30 PDT! The speakers will be Tania Bogatsch from DuckDB Labs & Thomas Glas, Master's student at CWI DA. More details on the mailing lists and website. Hope to see you all there!

Announcing a special DSDSD on the 23rd of February starting at 11am CET! Carsten Binnig (Carsten Binnig) from TU Darmstadt will talk about "Towards LLM-augmented Database Systems". More details through the mailing list and website. Hope to see you all there!

Announcing the next DSDSD on the 22nd of March starting at 16:00 CET! Pedro Holanda (Pedro Holanda ) from DuckDB Labs will present "Efficient CSV Parsing: On the Complexity of Simple Things". More details will follow on the website and through the mailing list. See you there!

Important update regarding DSDSD this Friday! Our speaker, Pedro Holanda, is unavailable. We've postponed his talk to Friday, April 5th at 4:00 PM CEST. The Zoom link will be sent through the mailing list at a later date! #DSDSD

We've uploaded recordings of 2 fantastic talks from last November: "Lambda functions in the duck's nest" by Tania Bogatsch from DuckDB Labs: youtu.be/tcFsgFXV0sM "C3: Compressing Correlated Columns" by Thomas Glas from CWI DA: youtu.be/n7YbYTe6NjA Check them out!

Hey Peeps, Just a reminder: I will be presenting on DuckDB's CSV Reader History this Friday, the 5th of April, at 4 PM (UTC+2 - Amsterdam Time). Hop in if you want to learn why parsing CSV files is a bit harder than it looks! Zoom Link: cwi-nl.zoom.us/j/84016314051?…

Ever wondered how #duckdb can read CSV files so fast? Last Friday we had an excellent talk from Pedro Holanda from DuckDB Labs about efficient CSV parsing and all the complexities that come with it in #duckdb. Missed it? Check out the recording! 🎥youtu.be/YrqSp8m7fmk

Announcing the next DSDSD on the 4th of October starting at 10:30 CET! We have the pleasure of hosting Pinar Tözün from @ITUkbh & Gustavo Alonso from ETH Zürich Details on their talks available at dsdsd.da.cwi.nl Zoom link will be sent through our mailing list See you there!

The next DSDSD is about to start in ~1 hour! The link to join via Zoom has been sent to our mailing list