5 Reasons Why AI Is the Future of SQL – Jared Zhao, AskEdith

5 Reasons Why AI Is the Future of SQL – Jared Zhao, AskEdith

SQL remains ubiquitous for data retrieval and analytics, yet can be tedious to write, and is downright unusable for business users. The 2-5 business day turnaround time for data projects is both disruptive and frustrating for business users. Data teams are becoming increasingly overwhelmed, and organizations are pushing to empower their “citizen data analysts.” With the advent of AI English-to-SQL platforms like AskEdith, now anyone can work with and query Presto using plain English questions. AskEdith integrates natively with web interfaces like Ahana for a seamless analytics experience.

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.