Ali LeClerc, Author at PrestoDB

Leading by Contribution: IBM’s Ongoing Investment in Open-Source Presto
By Anant Aneja, Yabin Ma, Ali LeClerc & Ethan Zhang July 15, 2025July 16, 2025
Note: This is a cross-post from https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/ali-leclerc/2025/07/15/ibms-ongoing-investment-in-presto At IBM, we believe open source is the engine of innovation. Presto, as a fast and flexible SQL engine for interactive analytics, continues to evolve rapidly thanks to community contributions. Over the past year, IBM engineers have focused on driving Presto forward across security, performance, native execution, and…
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How Twilio Scales Presto with Odin: A New Query Gateway
By Ali LeClerc May 20, 2025May 20, 2025
One of my favorite parts of working with the Presto community is seeing how different companies push the project forward in creative ways. Recently, Aakash Pradeep from Twilio shared a great example of this with their development of Odin, a new modular query gateway they built to help scale Presto usage across their organization. I…
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How Jio Platforms Leverages Presto for Large-Scale Analytics
By Ali LeClerc March 6, 2025March 6, 2025
In our latest community spotlight, we sat down with Sonal Holankar, Associate Data Engineer at Jio Platforms, about how they use Presto to power analytics at scale. Jio Platforms, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, is one of India’s leading digital service providers, with a suite of applications and services, including JioMart, JioMoney, and JioGames. Managing…
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PrestoCon 2024 Recap: Celebrating Community and Showcasing Innovation
By Ali LeClerc December 12, 2024December 12, 2024
PrestoCon 2024 wrapped up last week, and it was truly inspiring to see so many members of our vibrant community come together in person. There’s something special about connecting face-to-face, exchanging ideas, and sharing a collective passion for Presto. Events like this strengthen the bonds within our community and remind us why open source thrives…
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PrestoCon Day 2024: Leveraging Presto for Scalable Data Analytics at Apna
By Ali LeClerc August 20, 2024August 20, 2024
At PrestoCon Day 2024 we had a session from Apna, the largest and fastest-growing professional opportunity platform in India. Apna connects job seekers with recruiters, enabling the discovery and application for relevant jobs and access to community groups. This is our second blog in our PrestoCon Day 2024 recap series, where I’ll do my best…
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PrestoCon Day 2024: Optimizing Data Analytics at Etisalat Egypt with Presto
By Ali LeClerc July 23, 2024July 23, 2024
This is our first blog in our PrestoCon Day 2024 recap series! At PrestoCon Day we had Mohamed Taha, Senior Data Engineer at Etisalat Egypt, present his team’s journey in optimizing data analytics using Presto. In this blog we’ll attempt to highlight the key points and take-away’s from Mohamed’s talk (which was awesome!) Quick…
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Recap of PrestoCon Day 2024: Presto C++, performance, new connectors, use cases, and so much more
By Ali LeClerc July 2, 2024July 2, 2024
Last week the Linux Foundation/Presto Foundation hosted PrestoCon Day 2024, our annual virtual community event about the open-source Presto project. Throughout the day hundreds of data enthusiasts, engineers, and industry leaders from around the globe joined us to learn more about and celebrate the power of Presto. Big shout out to our sponsors who helped…
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2023 Presto Community Year in Review
By Girish Baliga, Tim Meehan & Ali LeClerc December 27, 2023December 27, 2023
Hello Presto community! As we wrap up the year, it’s a great time to reflect on all we accomplished with Presto. We had a lot to celebrate in 2023, from the official launch of Presto 2.0 (see our keynote from PrestoCon) to continued growth in both the community and the Presto Foundation. We’re happy to…
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PrestoCon 2023: Highlighting Presto 2.0 and the Presto community
By Ali LeClerc December 19, 2023December 19, 2023
PrestoCon 2023 was a success! Part education, part celebration, this year’s event highlighted the excitement about Prestissimo, aka Presto 2.0.
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Top 3 reasons why you should attend PrestoCon 2023: Halloween Edition
By Ali LeClerc October 31, 2023October 31, 2023
Two days of Presto, hands-on workshops, and Prestissimo…oh my! Happy Halloween, Presto community! Over the last few weeks, I’ve had people reach out to ask more about PrestoCon 2023, so I figured I’d write a blog to share my thoughts. First, a quick overview: When: December 5-6th, 2023 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View,…
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Happy 11th Birthday to Presto! We’re celebrating with some project contributions
By Ali LeClerc October 12, 2023October 12, 2023
Happy Birthday to Presto! Although it officially happened in August, we’re still celebrating because Presto turned 11 and because we’ve logged four vibrant years under the Linux Foundation’s governance. 🎂🎉Check out the video of the Presto Community wishing the project a happy birthday! What’s a birthday without gifts, right? 🎁 Coinciding with this birthday, the…
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Scaling Presto for Data Analytics – Insights from Meta, Uber, and Intuit
By Ali LeClerc August 17, 2023September 14, 2023
At PrestoCon Day 2023, we had a fantastic panel discussion with speakers from Meta, Uber, and Intuit. Each shared their experiences and use cases of scaling Presto in their respective companies. Let’s take a look at the key points discussed by each panelist, including use cases, key metrics, and future plans for Presto. Sign up…
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Simplifying Presto on Kubernetes – Introducing the Presto Helm Chart
By Ali LeClerc August 2, 2023September 14, 2023
Let’s explore how to run Presto on Kubernetes. At PrestoCon Day 2023, Denis Krivenko of Platform24 shared his work on the Presto Helm Chart and why Presto on Kubernetes helps make for an efficient deployment. He also demoed a step-by-step process of deploying Presto on a Kubernetes cluster using the Helm package manager. Sign up…
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Quick Stats – Runtime ANALYZE for Better Query Plans with Presto
By Ali LeClerc July 20, 2023September 14, 2023
At PrestoCon Day, Anant Aneja of Ahana, an IBM Company introduced a new feature for Presto called Quick Stats which aims to enhance query optimization by providing up-to-date statistics for the query optimizer. This enables more accurate cost-based decisions and better selectivity for non-trivial queries. In this blog post we’ll recap the details and benefits…
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Migrating to Presto – How Bolt Built a Data Platform Architecture for Scalability and Cost Efficiency
By Ali LeClerc July 13, 2023September 14, 2023
At PrestoCon Day we heard from Bolt, a ride sharing app with 100 million users across 45 countries in Eastern Europe, who shared why they chose Presto to underpin their data architecture platform. By leveraging Presto’s capabilities, Bolt was able to address scalability limits, cost efficiency, and workload management challenges. In this blog we’ll recap…
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Harnessing Presto – A Deep Dive into Adobe Advertising’s Three Use Cases
By Ali LeClerc June 29, 2023September 14, 2023
At PrestoCon Day 2023, we had a team from Adobe showcasing three different Presto-based use cases. As part of Adobe Advertising, Rajmani Arya, Varun Senthilnathan and Manoj Kumar Dhakad detailed the Adobe Data Processing platform (ADP) and three use cases for Presto: scheduled pipelines, ad-hoc query, and custom reporting. Let’s dive into what they covered….
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Recapping PrestoCon Day 2023 – Presto for the Data Lakehouse, Presto at scale
By Ali LeClerc June 23, 2023September 14, 2023
Just a few weeks ago we hosted PrestoCon Day, our annual virtual community conference. Thank you to everyone who attended – it was an awesome day! We had a fantastic agenda with many Presto users sharing why they chose Presto and how they’re using it to power some pretty sizable workloads. Sign up for the…
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Customer-Facing Presto at Rippling – Andy Li, Rippling
By Ali LeClerc January 9, 2023September 14, 2023
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…
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