Presto at Varsity Tutors: Using Federated Queries to Power External Reporting – John Cross

Presto at Varsity Tutors: Using Federated Queries to Power External Reporting – John Cross

Varsity Tutors is a learning platform that enables online academic, professional, and enrichment learning. A growing part of their offering partners with school districts to provide customized support for teachers and students. Varsity Tutors for Schools provides external reporting capabilities including student assessments, progress reports, and more. To provide these timely reports, Varsity Tutors (an AWS shop) uses Presto scripts to perform federated queries across MySQL, Postgres, and Redshift and writes data back to S3. They use Ahana Cloud as their managed service for Presto. In this session, John will discuss what technologies they evaluated, why they chose Presto, and their current data architecture including how they handle security for cross-account writes and how they perform upserts into the final reporting database.

Building Modern Data Lakes for Analytics Using Object Storage – Satish Ramakrishnan, MinIO

Building Modern Data Lakes for Analytics Using Object Storage – Satish Ramakrishnan, MinIO

The modern data lake is distributed, unstructured and demands performance and scale – or better stated, performance at scale. Modern object stores are the ideal platform to pair with MPP query engines like Presto – particularly as the scale reaches tens or hundreds of petabytes with tens to hundreds of concurrent queries. In this talk, Satish Ramakrishnan will outline the better together attributes of the two technologies with a focus on the most sophisticated modern object storage features – from throughput optimizations, multi-cloud capabilities, cross-cloud active active replication and lifecycle management. Participants will come away with a reference architecture suited to query processing at object scale.