Presto Community Newsletter October 2023
October 2023
The countdown ⏱️ to PrestoCon 2023 has begun! Before our big December event, we’re getting the community together for some in-person meetups in NYC and Bangalore. Get a free digital copy of the newly published O’Reilly Presto book 📘 that’s available NOW. And as always, we invite you to stay in touch through the Presto community slack channel 👍
Upcoming Presto and community events 📅
PrestoCon is coming! Register now to save your seat for 2 days of all things Presto. Free workshops if you purchase a pass!
If you’re interested in sharing more about how you’re using Presto, we’d love for you to submit a talk. We also encourage you to join a meetup group near you so you’re notified of upcoming events. We have groups in the Bay Area, NYC, Bangalore, London, Shanghai, and Sydney.
November 2 at 6pm: In-person NYC Presto Meetup at Uber offices
Join us for pizza, drinks, and great sessions from Uber, Denodo, and IBM — scaling with Presto on Spark at Uber, running a Presto deployment on your laptop. Space is limited, RSVP now to save your seat!
December 5–6th: PrestoCon — Bay Area
Have you seen the PrestoCon agenda? We’re excited to have speakers from Uber, Meta, Bytedance, Intel, IBM and more sharing how they use Presto and the latest innovation in the project. We’ll also have a track dedicated to Prestissimo, the native C++ worker for Presto.
There’s also a day of workshops to help you get up and running with Presto, which are free to attend if you register for the conference. Early bird pricing ending soon!
Couldn’t attend a recent virtual meetup live? Want to revisit a discussion? Check out some of our recent event recordings:
Presto Virtual Meetup: Introducing a new plugin for Query Audit & Governance by IBM (Oct 18, 2023)
Presto Virtual Meetup: The new Redis HBO for Presto by Uber (Aug 30, 2023)
Get the complete Presto O’Reilly book 📘
Learning and Operating Presto, which we wrote in partnership with O’Reilly, is complete and free to download, compliments of IBM.
What will you learn? Everything from getting up to speed with the basic principles of Presto to hints for deploying Presto successfully at your own organization.
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!
