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…

Improving the Presto planner for better push down and data federation

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Presto defines a connector API that allows Presto to query any data source that has a connector implementation. The existing connector API provides basic predicate pushdown functionality allowing connectors to perform filtering at the underlying data source. However, there are certain limitations with the existing predicate pushdown functionality that limits what connectors can do. The…