8: Trino: A ludicrously fast query engine: past, present, and future

Video

• Martin Traverso Introduction: Link (105s)
• Dain Sundstrom Introduction: Link (270s)
• David Phillips Introduction: Link (506s)
• Eric Hwang Introduction: Link (744s)
• Past: Presto name, Facebook projects, and open source: Link (1010s)
• Past: Where did the name Trino come from?: Link (1396s)
• Past: Why Martin, Dain, and David left Facebook and created a Presto fork: Link (1574s)
• Past: Why did you choose to continue using Presto instead of rebranding?: Link (2091s)
• Past: How did the contending Presto drive us to rebrand as Trino?: Link (2257s)
• Present: Did you know this project would span decades and when did you know?: Link (2380s)
• Present: What tricks did you use to rename an entire project in the span of a week?: Link (2815s)
• Present: The top-level project nesting changes: Link (3060s)
• Present: Where did the bunny come from?: Link (3179s)
• Future: How do you move to Trino and how to handle breaking changes?: Link (3352s)
• Future: How to explain that you are using Trino and not Presto to your boss.: Link (3506s)
• 2021 Trino Roadmap: Link (3912s)

Audio

In this episode…

Well, we’re back, and no longer waving the Presto® flag like we did before. If you haven’t heard, Presto® SQL is now Trino ( Read more about that here). In this episode, we sit down with the four original creators of Presto® and discuss the journey in more detail of what led us to our current trajectory with the Presto® SQL project and why that is now being renamed to Trino. We also discuss how this affects those that are using Trino. If you are developing on Trino and have the old namespace check out the guide to migrate here.

We also discuss the differences between the two projects. It is actually a lot after two years since the split, and we recommend looking at the blog we wrote at the end of 2019 and keep your eyes peeled for the blog we are writing to summarize the changes in 2020!

Finally, we cover some sneak peeks at the roadmap for Trino in 2021.

If you want to show us some 💕, please give us a ⭐ on Github.

Events, news, and various links

Blogs

• https://trino.io/blog/2019/05/21/optimizing-the-casts-away.html
• https://towardsdatascience.com/statistics-in-spark-sql-explained-22ec389bf71b
• https://www.infoworld.com/article/3597971/on-premises-data-warehouses-are-dead.html
• https://www.javahelps.com/2019/11/presto-sql-join-algorithms.html

Upcoming events

• Feb 9 - Feb 10 http://starburstdata.com/datanova

Latest training from David, Dain, and Martin(Now with timestamps!):

• https://trino.io/blog/2020/07/15/training-advanced-sql.html
• https://trino.io/blog/2020/07/30/training-query-tuning.html
• https://trino.io/blog/2020/08/13/training-security.html
• https://trino.io/blog/2020/08/27/training-performance.html

Presto® Summit Series - Real world usage

• https://trino.io/blog/2020/05/15/state-of-presto.html
• https://trino.io/blog/2020/06/16/presto-summit-zuora.html
• https://trino.io/blog/2020/07/06/presto-summit-arm-td.html
• https://trino.io/blog/2020/07/22/presto-summit-pinterest.html

Podcasts:

• Presto with Martin Traverso, Dain Sundstrom and David Phillips
• Simplify Your Data Architecture With The Presto Distributed SQL Engine
• How Open Source Presto Unlocks a Single Point of Access to Data
• The Data Access Struggle is Real
• Presto with Justin Borgman
• The infrastructure renaissance and how it will power the modernization of analytics platforms
• Uber’s Data Platform with Zhenxiao Luo

If you want to learn more about Trino, check out the definitive guide from OReilly. You can download the free PDF or buy the book online.

Music for the show is from the Megaman 6 Game Play album by Krzysztof Słowikowski.