The Future of Presto’s Query Optimizer – Bill McKenna, Ahana

The Future of Presto’s Query Optimizer – Bill McKenna, Ahana

In this talk, you will hear from the query optimizer OG himself, Bill McKenna (Principal software engineer at Ahana, Architect for the query optimizer that became the code base of the Amazon Redshift query optimizer, and co-author of The Volcano Optimizer Generator: Extensibility and Efficient Search) go into detail about the state of modern query optimizers, and how Presto stacks up against them and where it will go in the near future. If database theory is your jam, you won’t want to miss this deeply technical presentation from one of the pioneers in the field.

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.