Presto Community Newsletter May 2024
May 2024
We’re just a month away from PrestoCon Day, have you seen the agenda? Join us virtually on June 25th and hear from Presto users like Etisalat Egypt, Apna, Trendyol, WS02, Uber, IBM, Meta and many more on how they’re using Presto. Register for free 🎉 Presto 0.287 is now available as well. Check out all of our community updates below!
Upcoming Presto and community events 📅
June 25th: PrestoCon Day (virtual)
PrestoCon Day is our one-day virtual event for the Presto community. Learn more about Presto C++, the nex-generation native C++ Presto engine built on Velox, and hear from tons of our community on what they’re building! Registration is free.
Blogs & Other Content 📝
New Blog: Embracing Presto Open Source for Breakthrough Performance
Presto 2.0 is our vision of next-gen version of Presto that includes the native C++ worker. As we work on building out this vision, it’s great to see IBM’s new performance benchmarking results on Presto C++. Learn more about their work and see the results in this engineering blog.
New Docs: Presto C++ overview, features, motivation, vision
Learn more about our active development of Presto 2.0, the C++ native engine and next-generation version of Presto. This new set of docs covers features, limitations, support use cases, and more.
How Uber harnesses the power of Presto and Apache Kafka for Data Analysis
Learn more about Uber’s use case on real-time data analysis to help optimize routes for its drivers, predict rider demand, and much more.
Presto updates & new features ⭐
Newest release Presto 0.287 is now available and includes updates and new features for SPI, Hive connector, Iceberg connector, and more. See the release notes.
We’ve migrated the Presto UI code base out of presto-main and into presto-ui! We hope this makes it easier for the community to do more with the Presto UI, which has been getting many updates over the last few months.
Check out our new Plan Viewer which generates the graph of a query plan on the Presto Console. You can access it using a web browser by adding the path /ui/dev/index.html to your server IP and port number.
