ALLUXIO COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER
NOVEMBER 2019
Highlights
Data Orchestration Summit Featured Presentations
Alluxio founder and CTO, Haoyuan (H.Y.), opens the Summit with his keynote – Orchestrate A Data Symphony – where he discusses the key challenges and trends impacting data engineering, and explores how data orchestration is a new approach to addressing those challenges.
This is followed by Walmart’s Ashish Tadose presenting on Enterprise Distributed Query Service Powered by Presto & Alluxio Across Clouds at Walmart. Watch Ashish’s talk to see how Alluxio was leveraged to provide consistent optimized query performance within and across clouds.
2.1 is a major release taking Alluxio into the structured data world! Watch Gene’s tech talk “From Files to Tables: Alluxio Structured Data Management” to learn more about Alluxio Structured Data Management. For an overview of the new features and improvements in Alluxio 2.1 as well as the latest community updates, check out the presentation “What’s new in Alluxio 2” by Calvin Jia and Bin Fan. Download and give it a try!
EVENTS
Community Online Office Hour | Improving Memory Utilization of Spark Jobs Using Alluxio | Nov. 26
In this month’s community office hour, Bin Fan will demo and compare the two approaches – caching data directly in-memory into the Spark JVM versus storing data off-heap via an in-memory storage service like Alluxio. Register to join!
Join us at Presto Summit NYC on Dec. 11th!
Don’t miss HY’s talk on Enabling Presto for the Cloud, and stop by our sponsor table in the exhibitor area. This is a free community event, but registration is required, so RSVP to save your seat!
Data Orchestration Summit Recap
In case you missed us at the first Data Orchestration Summit 2019, we’ve got you covered! All recordings and slides are now available to view here.
ODSC West Tech Talk – Simplified Data Preparation for Machine Learning in Hybrid and Multi Clouds
Check out Bin Fan’s recent presentation at ODSC West on how to leverage Alluxio to greatly simplify data preparation in hybrid and multi cloud environments.
BLOGS AND TUTORIALS
Kubernetes, Alluxio and the disaggregated analytics stack
Read about how Alluxio brings back data locality for the disaggregated analytics stack in k8s. Alluxio support for k8s helm charts is now available as well.
Improving Spark Memory Resource with Off-Heap In-Memory Storage
This article offers more on how Alluxio enhances Spark workloads by helping to optimize the memory utilization of Spark applications.
Introducing Wormhole: Dockerized Presto & Alluxio setups for blazing fast analytics
Read our guest blog introducing Wormhole – an open source Dockerized solution for deploying Presto & Alluxio clusters for blazing fast analytics on file systems. Achieving faster results in same or less time is solved by distributed computing with Presto and performance gains with Alluxio.
ALLUXIO 2.1 RELEASED!
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