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.

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.