Avoid Data Silos in Presto in Meta: the journey from Raptor to RaptorX

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Raptor is a Presto connector (presto-raptor) that is used to power some critical interactive query workloads in Meta (previously Facebook). Though referred to in the ICDE 2019 paper Presto: SQL on Everything, it remains somewhat mysterious to many Presto users because there is no available documentation for this feature. This article will shed some light…

Presto Enables Internal Log Data Analysis at Drift

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I’m a Senior Software Engineer in the data group at Drift, a conversational marketing platform that is used for qualifying leads faster, automatically booking meetings and connecting customers to the right business solutions more efficiently. I’ve used Presto quite a bit throughout my career, and I want to first give readers a quick overview of…