Customer-Facing Presto at Rippling – Andy Li, Rippling

Last month we hosted PrestoCon, a return to in-person events that showcased the community development of Presto. In this blog we’ll detail Rippling’s presentation on their Presto use case, including their architecture, key optimizations, and hard earned lessons. You can also check out their full presentation here. Background Rippling is a popular HR and payroll…

Spatial Joins 1: Local Spatial Joins

A common type of spatial query involves relating one table of geometric objects (e.g., a table population_centers with columns population, latitude, longitude) with another such table (e.g., a table counties with columns county_name, boundary_wkt), such as calculating for each county the population sum of all population centers contained within it. These kinds of calculations are…