Presto at Meta: A Guide to Tuning Clusters at Enormous Scale

Presto at Meta: A Guide to Tuning Clusters at Enormous Scale

Facebook operates Presto at an enormous scale. A critical part of the success of Presto is properly tuning the clusters according to the use case they target. Swapnil Tailor, Basar Onat and Tim Meehan describe important session properties and configuration properties used to configure Presto, and guidance on when and how to use them.

Disaggregated Coordinator – Swapnil Tailor, Facebook

Disaggregated Coordinator – Swapnil Tailor, Facebook

In the existing Presto architecture, single coordinator has become a bottleneck in a number of ways for cluster scalability. – With an increasing number of workers, the coordinator has the potential of slow down due to a high number of tasks. – In high QPS use cases, we have found workers can become starved of splits by excessive CPU being spend on task updates in coordinator. – Also with single coordinator, we have an upper limit on the worker pool because of above-mentioned reasons. To overcome with this challenges, we are coming up with a new architecture which supports multiple coordinators in a single cluster.