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Trino Community Broadcast

The Trino Community Broadcast is a show about the Trino project and community. Topics include the data sources, clients, add-ons, platforms and usages of Trino. We interview users, contributors, partners, and other community members about their connection to Trino, look at demos together, and chat about the tech stacks, the code, and often explain concepts along the way.

Each episode also brings you news about the latest releases, events, and interesting developments in the ecosystem around Trino.

Upcoming episodes

9 Apr Mar 2025: Trino Community Broadcast 73 - Wrapping Trino packages with a bow
Manfred Moser talks about his recent work to improve Trino packaging and demos how to create your own RPM, tarball, and container image.
6 May 2025: Trino Community Broadcast 74 - One tool to proxy them all
Jordan Zimmermann, Pablo Arteaga, and Cristian Osiac introduce us to a new Trino subproject and its use cases with AWS and other storage systems, metastores, and query engines - aws-proxy.

Find more details and other events on our calendar.

Trino users, contributors, and partners, we want to hear from you! If you have a topic, question or pull request that you would like us to feature on the show join the Trino slack and contact us there.

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Latest episode

72: Keeping the lake clean

Manfred Moser and Cole Bowden are joined by Viktor Kessler and Christian Thiel from Vakamo who introduce us to their new metastore solution Lakekeeper. It is an Iceberg REST catalog-compatible lakehouse metastore with big plans for additional features and support for Trino. We dive into the details and have a look at a demo.

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71: Fake it real good

Manfred Moser and Cole Bowden are joined by Jan Waś to learn about the new Faker connector and the Datafaker library. You can use it to emulate data that does not exist on any storage, can shape it as you need, and then learn real SQL, build real reports, and make some real charts - all with fake data.

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70: Previewing a new UI

Manfred Moser is joined by Peter Kosztolanyi to talk about the origins, current status, and future of the new Preview Web UI for Trino, before we play around with it in a demo.

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69: Client protocol improvements

Manfred Moser and Cole Bowden are joined by Mateusz Gajewski to discuss the development of the new spooling mode for the Trino client protocol. We look at cluster configuration, client drivers, and run some demos.

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68: Year of the Snake - Python UDFs

Manfred and Cole are joined by David Phillips to talk about the new support of user-defined functions written in Python. We discuss motivation, development history, dive into implementation details, and explore some examples.

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67: Extra speed with Exasol and Trino

Manfred and Cole are joined by Thomas Bestfleisch from the Exasol team to talk about Exasol, the new Trino Exasol connector, and some related use cases.

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66: Chat with Trino and Wren AI

Manfred is joined by Wren AI team members and contributors to talk about the new AI-powered, text to SQL tool and its great support for Trino.

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65: Performance boosts

Manfred and Cole dive into the details of some changes in recent and upcoming Trino releases. They cover file compression and decompression improvements, the updated file system support, and other performance boosters.

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64: Control with Open Policy Agent OPA

Sönke Liebau and Sebastian Bernauer from Stackable join us to chat about the Open Policy Agent plugin for Trino and their usage of it. We also talk about their trino-lb project, their Kubernetes operator for Trino, and lessons learned from using Trino on Kubernetes.

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63: Querying with JS

Emily Sunaryo from Starburst joins us to talk about her journey to learn about Trino and develop a web application that queries Trino with the trino-js-client.

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