Open Source, Adoptability, and Name Changes with Martin Traverso

Season 3 · Episode 1

Open Source, Adoptability, and Name Changes with Martin Traverso

This episode features an interview with Martin Traverso, CTO at Starburst Data and Co-founder of Trino, a lightning fast distributed SQL query engine. Martin was previously a software engineer at Facebook where he led the Presto (now Trino) development team. Trino has gained worldwide adoption from companies like Netflix, Amazon, and LinkedIn.

In this episode, Martin sits down with Sam to discuss the barriers, advantages, and complications of going open-source.

Published February 2nd, 2022

Episode Guest

Martin TraversoCo-Creator of Presto / Trino, CTO at Starburst Data

Episode Transcript

Read the full transcript here.

Guest Quote

[33:55]: “What makes Trino powerful is the ecosystem around it. You have integrations with all sorts of data sources and that’s part of the power and magic of Trino. You can pull data from all these data sources using a single interface. On the other end is the integrations with all the tools that everyone uses. Once you put all those pieces together, that’s what gives Trino the power.”

Time Stamps

[8:38]: How Martin solved Facebook’s analytics problem

[13:00]: How the team adapted to customers’ needs

[17:07]: What makes Trino stand out among other query engines

[19:42]: Going open-source changes the game

[30:14]: Presto becomes Trino

[33:24]: What gives Trino its magic

[35:19]: What Trino’s community looks like today

[38:34]: Advice for those starting open-source projects

Links

Blog - Intro to Trino for the Trinewbie

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