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Prestissimo Extension for AI Training Data Normalization at Meta: A Deep Dive for Developers (Lightning Talk)
By Saurabh Mahawar August 23, 2025August 23, 2025
At PrestoCon Day 2025, Meta’s Presto team recently unveiled the Prestissimo extension, a powerful enhancement designed to optimize AI training data normalization. This article explores the technical underpinnings and developer-centric features of this extension, providing a comprehensive understanding of how it supports large-scale AI workloads at Meta. Understanding AI Training Data Storage at Meta At…
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Presto C++ Unleashed: Dynamically Load Unfenced UDFs, End Rebuilds, and Boost Performance
By Saurabh Mahawar August 22, 2025August 22, 2025
Dynamic loading in Presto C++ is revolutionizing how developers build and deploy user-defined functions (UDFs). At PrestoCon Day 2025 , Soumya Duriseti explained how Presto C++ now supports dynamic loading of unfenced UDFs, eliminating the need for time-consuming static builds and making it easier than ever to add custom logic without rebuilding the entire binary….
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Building Connectors in Presto C++: Deep Dive into the TPCDS Connector (Lightning Talk)
By Saurabh Mahawar, Pramod Satya & Pratik Joseph Dabre August 20, 2025August 20, 2025
At PrestoCon Day 2025, engineers from IBM presented a deep dive into how connectors in Presto C++ extend the engine’s modular capabilities, focusing on the newly implemented TPCDS benchmark connector. Connectors are central to Presto’s architecture, enabling the query engine to communicate seamlessly with external systems such as databases, file formats, or benchmark data generators….
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Revolutionizing Presto C++: Unleashing Native Power with the Sidecar
By Saurabh Mahawar, Pramod Satya & Pratik Joseph Dabre August 10, 2025August 11, 2025
At PrestoCon Day 2025, we unveiled the Presto Sidecar, a powerful enhancement for Presto C++ (Velox) clusters that transforms how coordinators interact with native workers. This innovation removes long-standing blind spots in query planning by giving the coordinator real-time visibility into native worker capabilities – such as supported functions, data types, session properties, and plan…
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Unleashing Interactivity: Inside Meta’s Presto-Powered Data Warehouse Innovation
By Saurabh Mahawar August 7, 2025August 7, 2025
At this year’s PrestoCon Day, Meta had an awesome session to share the latest on what they’re doing with Presto. As you probably know, Meta has one of the largest data Lakehouse’s in the world and Presto is a critical piece of that data platform. It plays a critical role in serving vast and diverse…
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Updating the Presto Helm Chart to Support Presto C++
By Michael Ceruzzi December 10, 2024December 11, 2024
While not mandatory for deploying Presto, Helm offers a streamlined and customizable method of deploying Presto in kubernetes, simplifying what could otherwise be a complicated process. With just a few properties specified in a values.yaml file, the user is able to configure and deploy a fully fledged version of Presto at the sizing of their…
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Diving into the Presto Native C++ Query Engine (Presto 2.0)
By Aditi Pandit & Amit Dutta June 24, 2024June 24, 2024
For the past three years, engineers from Meta, Ahana (now IBM), Intel, and Bytedance have been working to build Velox, a state-of-the-art execution engine designed to be composable across compute engines. From this work came the native C++ Presto worker, a full rewrite of the Presto query execution engine built on Velox (also referred to…
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Embracing Presto Open Source for Breakthrough Performance
By Ethan Zhang May 23, 2024May 23, 2024
At IBM, we are passionate about pushing the boundaries of data processing capabilities. To that end, we’re excited to share our latest groundbreaking work towards Presto 2.0, the next-generation version of Presto that includes a robust native C++ worker. This initiative not only strengthens the project’s technological foundations but also reiterates our dedication to the…
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