Presto Newsletter – October 2020

Presto News & Knowledge

The Band Is Back Together: 4th Presto Creator Joins Starburst

Starburst recently announced that Eric Hwang, the 4th co-creator of Presto, is joining the engineering team as a Distinguished Engineer. This is an enormous milestone for Starburst, but more importantly, for the history of open source Presto.

The Rise of X Analytics in an Uncertain Economy

Recently, a new trend called X Analytics has emerged. It’s a term referring to the ability to run analytics on a wide range of structured and unstructured data, and new data alongside old or core data. This post looks at the importance of X Analytics as the world undergoes a massive digital transformation due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Podcast – Simplify Your Data Architecture With The Presto Distributed SQL Engine

Martin Traverso, co-creator of Presto, recently joined the Data Engineering Podcast to discuss how Presto is designed to allow for querying and combining data where it resides, the use cases that such an architecture unlocks, and the innovative ways that it is being employed at companies across the world.

Presto and Fast Object: Putting Backups to Use for DevOps and Machine Learning

One of the biggest challenges in making use of data is avoiding the complexity of making N copies of a dataset to be used with N different analytics systems. Often, the backups of important tables are sitting idle so perhaps they can do more? This post describes how Presto can help you leverage your backup dataset to enable dev/test and analytics too.

Need help with Presto security? Download the Presto Enterprise Security Guide

One of the core reasons organizations select Starburst is the added security features that have been built into Presto. These include fine-grained access control, data masking and encryption, column and row level security, query auditing, integration with Apache Ranger, and more. Learn how to leverage these features in this detailed guide.