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This article will shed some light on the history of Raptor and why Meta eventually replaced it in favor of a new architecture based on local caching, namely RaptorX.

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Rongrong Zhong, Presto committer/TSC member and software engineer at Alluxio, shares the history of Raptor, and why Meta eventually replaced it in favor of a new architecture based on local caching, namely RaptorX.