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Wes McKinney

wesmckinney.com/blog

PythonDatabasesAI / ML

’15’20’25
Posts
41 from 21 Jul 2011 to 12 Aug 2026
Posting
monthly (7 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog

2026 6

  1. How Kenn is doing Agentic Engineering – Wes McKinney
  2. The Clanker Constitution – Wes McKinney
  3. The Mythical Agent-Month – Wes McKinney
  4. Announcing msgvault: lightning fast private email archive and search system, with terminal UI and MCP server, powered by DuckDB – Wes McKinney
  5. From Human Ergonomics to Agent Ergonomics – Wes McKinney
  6. Why Not? – Wes McKinney

2025 1

  1. Can LLMs give us AGI if they are bad at arithmetic? – Wes McKinney

2023 3

  1. Joining Posit’s Polyglot Data Science Mission – Wes McKinney
  2. Voltron Data Update: Transitions – Wes McKinney
  3. The Road to Composable Data Systems: Thoughts on the Last 15 Years and the Future – Wes McKinney

2021 1

  1. Joining Forces for an Arrow-Native Future – Wes McKinney

2019 3

  1. Ursa Labs March 2019 Report – Wes McKinney
  2. Ursa Labs February 2019 Report – Wes McKinney
  3. Ursa Labs January 2019 Report – Wes McKinney

2018 3

  1. Leaving NYC for Nashville – Wes McKinney
  2. Announcing Ursa Labs’s partnership with NVIDIA – Wes McKinney
  3. Announcing Ursa Labs: an innovation lab for open source data science – Wes McKinney

2017 5

  1. Some comments to Daniel Abadi’s blog about Apache Arrow – Wes McKinney
  2. Feather format update: Whence and Whither? – Wes McKinney
  3. Apache Arrow and the “10 Things I Hate About pandas” – Wes McKinney
  4. Extreme IO performance with parallel Apache Parquet in Python – Wes McKinney
  5. Streaming Columnar Data with Apache Arrow – Wes McKinney

2016 6

  1. 2017 Outlook: pandas, Arrow, Feather, Parquet, Spark, Ibis – Wes McKinney
  2. From Arrow to pandas at 10 Gigabytes Per Second – Wes McKinney
  3. Kinesis Advantage2: Impressions – Wes McKinney
  4. GitHub’s one-dimensional view of open source contributions – Wes McKinney
  5. Feather: it’s about metadata – Wes McKinney
  6. Why pandas users should be excited about Apache Arrow – Wes McKinney

2015 2

  1. The problem with the data science language wars – Wes McKinney
  2. What’s changed – Wes McKinney

2014 1

  1. Thoughts on joining Cloudera – Wes McKinney

2011 2

  1. Introducing vbench, new code performance analysis and monitoring tool – Wes McKinney
  2. A Roadmap for Rich Scientific Data Structures in Python – Wes McKinney

Undated 8

  1. building software projects
  2. I speak often at conferences and on podcasts
  3. Data Engineering Central
  4. Show Us Your Agent Skills (Vanishing Gradients / PyMC Labs)
  5. The Test Set (Posit)
  6. Joe Reis Podcast
  7. The Test Set (Posit)
  8. The Test Set (Posit)