Top 10 Reasons to Use & Contribute to Presto – Steven Mih, Ahana

Top 10 Reasons to Use & Contribute to Presto – Steven Mih, Ahana

Presto is complicated with many intricacies. Ahana Cloud is the only managed service for Presto on AWS that simplifies Presto, bringing its power to platform teams of any size or skill set. In this session we’ll give you a quick overview of Ahana Cloud, including managing multiple Presto clusters seamlessly, querying a range of data sources, as well as just-released capabilities.

How Carbon uses PrestoDB in the Cloud with Ahana to Power its Real-time Customer Dashboards

How Carbon uses PrestoDB in the Cloud with Ahana to Power its Real-time Customer Dashboards

Carbon is a real-time revenue management platform that consolidates revenue and audience analytics, data management, and yield operations into a single solution. Real-time analytics is super critical – their customers rely on real-time data to make revenue decisions. After facing issues around performance, visibility & ease of use, and serverless pricing model with AWS Athena, the team moved to a managed service for PrestoDB in the cloud – Ahana Cloud – to power their customer-facing dashboards. In this session, Jordan will discuss some of the reasons the team moved from AWS Athena to a managed PrestoDB on Intel-optimized AWS instances. He will also dive into their current architecture that includes an Ahana-managed Hive Metastore along with Apache ORC file format and an S3-based data lake. Last, he’ll share some performance benchmarks and talk about what’s next for PrestoDB at Carbon.