
Technical Challenges of Scale at Twitter
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What Is Presto SQL?
Presto is a tool that allows you to query basically kind of any data source out there. You can join data across disparate data sources, right? So if you have data stored up in GCS and then you have some lookup data stored in a Postgres database, you can basically say, Hey, select everything from my GCS data source and join it on my Lookup information from Postgres SQL. And it will do it in a distributed manager to where to pull the data into its own processing nodes or something like that. It's still used by a lot of stuff out of there out there. There's also druid, which is a super powerful analytics platform for time series
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