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Hamilton Ulmer
Hamilton Ulmer
UI Engineer & Designer | MotherDuck

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Instant Preview Mode: Real-Time Feedback to Make SQL Data Exploration Fly

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ABOUT THE TALK
  • Analytics & BI

Imagine writing SQL queries that give you instant visual feedback, transforming your entire data exploration experience. In this talk, you'll see how MotherDuck's Instant Preview Mode breaks through traditional development barriers by providing real-time results as you type. Powered by cutting-edge client-side query parsing and DuckDB-WASM, this technology eliminates the frustrating write-run-debug cycle that's slowed down data professionals for years. You'll see how we've created a system that not only accelerates query iteration but makes working with SQL—especially AI-generated queries—feel more intuitive and responsive than ever before.

Hamilton Ulmer

UI Engineer & Designer

Hamilton Ulmer

MotherDuck

Hamilton Ulmer is currently a designer and software engineer at MotherDuck. Previously he was head of application engineering at Rill Data, where he built conversation-fast dashboard tools with DuckDB, and spent several years at Mozilla working on projects including Iodide, the WebAssembly-powered notebook environment that gave rise to Pyodide, the popular WebAssembly port of CPython. Hamilton's work pushes the boundaries of databases and web browsers to make data analysis feel more natural and engaging.

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