If you're reading this and curious: consider writing a duckdb community extension* or contributing to an existing one*

duckdb is becoming a kind of data superglue between a lot of data ecosystems (GIS, observability, analytics, lakehouses, object storage, etc) that don't talk to each other typically, and it's worth checking out in 2026.

* https://github.com/duckdb/extension-template * https://duckdb.org/community_extensions/