Presto Community Newsletter June 2024
June 2024
We just wrapped up PrestoCon Day and it was such an amazing event! Thanks to all of our community who virtually joined us 🎉 On-demand recordings are available if you register. Also excited to highlight some of the latest work in the OS community including support for the REST catalog in the Iceberg connector, how Twilio is using Presto on AWS, and more.
If you’re new to the Presto community, join us in the community slack channel 😁
Presto community events 📅
We had a great 1 day of all things Presto this week! You can register to get access to all of the on-demand sessions from this year’s PrestoCon Day.
Blogs & Other Content 📝
Blog: Diving into the Presto Native C++ Query Engine (Presto 2.0)
Aditi Pandit, Software Engineer at IBM and Amit Dutta, Software Engineer at Meta share why we’re building Presto C++ and more of its technical details including architecture, the Velox library, and query processing. Amit also writes more about its use at Meta which has resulted in ~2–3X CPU time improvements.
Blog: How Twilio used Amazon SageMaker MLOps pipelines with PrestoDB to enable frequent model retraining and optimized batch transform
Twilio shares how they implemented an MLOps pipeline that queries data from Presto in a step-by-step overview in partnership with AWS.
Presto updates & new features ⭐
- Implementation of new NaN behavior to provide consistent NaN semantics across all of our functions and operators | See PR
- Support for REST catalog in Iceberg connector | See PR
- In progress — support for distributed procedures | See PR
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:
The Presto Foundation public calendar is the best place to see all of the working group and community meetings!