The future of interactive analytics with Presto

Join us on the 13th November at Big Data LDN (https://bigdataldn.com/) for our largest meetup yet! We have 2 awesome talks ready for over 100 Presto enthusiasts as well as founding member hoodies to give away, beer and of course, plenty of pizza to go around!

Originally developed and open sourced by Facebook, Presto is a distributed SQL engine for interactive analytics which is undergoing a hyper-growth and is being widely adopted by more and more UK organisations.

First up is a look at the past, present and future of Presto. We'll be taking a close look at the performance benefits as well as new features that are designed to boost query execution times.

On top of this, we also have an exciting Presto use case from a leading international business. More to follow...

AGENDA:

• 6:10PM - 6:40PM - 'Presto - Past, Present & Future' - presented by Shubham Tagra, Senior Presto Engineer, Qubole

• 6:45PM - 7:15PM - 'The year of self-service analytics' - presented by Alex Netelkos, Senior Data Analyst, MediaMath

TECH TALK ABSTRACT:

'Presto - Past, Present & Future' - Shubham Tagra, Senior Presto Engineer

In this talk, we will focus on the performance benefits of Presto and dive into what makes it suitable for interactive analytics. We'll also look at the current and future features in Presto that further boost the query execution times with features like Dynamic Filtering, RubiX cache, Fast Copies, etc.

'The year of self-service analytics' - presented by Alex Netelkos, Senior Data Analyst

The Presto User Group are delighted to have Alex from MediaMath on board to deliver key insights into the data-driven journey that they have taken to deliver self-service analytics to their internal teams and customers. Hear about the challenges that they overcame and the outputs that they are delivering.