Presto Community Newsletter February 2024
February 2024
Join us for one of our several upcoming community events, both virtual and in-person 👍 We’re also happy to announce our newest meetup, Presto Paris! You can find past meetup recordings on the Presto Youtube channel 😀 As always, join us in the Presto community slack channel to connect with the community 👍
Upcoming Presto and community events 📅
Want to speak at an upcoming Presto meetup or industry conference?
Submit a community CFP 💙
Feb 28th: Hands-on Virtual Workshop — Building an Open Data Lakehouse with Presto and Apache Iceberg
This is a beginner-level workshop. We’ll use Presto for the open-source SQL query engine, Apache Iceberg to enable ACID transactions, and Minio S3-compatible Object Storage for the data lake. Register now!
March 13th: Presto Paris Meetup
If you’re in Paris we hope you can attend our first in-person meetup, hosted by Denodo! We’ll do an introduction to Presto and a hands-on getting started session. RSVP today!
April 3rd-4th: VeloxCon in San Jose, CA
VeloxCon is a free community-hosted event to discuss the Velox open-source project. If you’re interested in learning more about Presto-on-Velox (code-named Prestissimo), engineers will be sharing more at VeloxCon. Register today!
Latest features ⭐
Shout out to our community for working on some awesome new features! Most recent include:
- Iceberg row-level deletes from Shabana Baig
- Prestissimo support for Iceberg V1 tables from Jalpreet Singh Nanda
- Equality deletes as joins in Iceberg, giving huge performance improvements with equality deletes from Jason Fine
- Presto UI SQL Client now supports session properties from Yi-hong Wang
Join a Presto working group 💼
Want to contribute to a specific area of Presto? Join one of our working groups and start collaborating with other Presto users and maintainers:
