Rolling into our next presentation from Trino Fest 2023, we’re excited to bring you Tuli Navas and Geeta Shankar’s talk from the Performance Engineering Team at Salesforce. They provide numerous reasons for why they need Trino and further explain how it is essential for anomaly detection in their data. It’s an insightful talk about using a query engine to ensure data quality and how switching to Trino has massively improved their performance. You definitely don’t want to miss it.
Recap
Salesforce provides customer relationship management software and applications focused on sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics, and application development. They host hundreds of thousands of customers that generate millions of transactions per day. For a company of this size, they need a query engine that is fast and efficient. During the talk, Tuli made it clear how much Salesforce relies on Trino, stating, “Trino has been a one-stop shop for analytics.” Trino is the perfect solution for them, as Tuli mentions, “Because of how well Trino scales and how efficiently it has been able to process even the most gnarly looking queries.” It allows them to do everything they need.
In addition, Trino has helped Salesforce get more value from their production logging data by accelerating their access to it, speeding up their decision making. For years, they used Splunk for all their production data, but after switching to Trino, they have had numerous improvements:
- Reducing their team’s analytics cost
- Improving their cost-to-serve
- Improving the time it takes to run the same query by 194%
- Providing an SLA of 20-minute latency on all production logs
- Retaining and accessing data up to 2 years compared to Splunk’s 30 days
- Reducing the number of queries needed, which creates a smaller footprint
- Creating tables and views for temporary data storage and analytics
With this, they use specific heuristics to create an anomaly detection framework with a very quick response time that they are able to constantly observe. This also allows them to monitor customer behavior efficiently, allowing them to respond to any urgent changes quickly. In the future, they plan to expand and ramp up their usage of Trino throughout their teams.
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