On-Demand Videos
Nilesh Agarwal, Co-founder & CTO at Inferless, shares insights on accelerating LLM inference in the cloud using Alluxio, tackling key bottlenecks like slow model weight loading from S3 and lengthy container startup time. Inferless uses Alluxio as a three-tier cache system that dramatically cuts model load time by 10x.
In this talk, Jingwen Ouyang, Senior Product Manager at Alluxio, will share how Alluxio make it easy to share and manage data from any storage to any compute engine in any environment with high performance and low cost for your model training, model inference, and model distribution workload.
Storing data as Parquet files on cloud object storage, such as AWS S3, has become prevalent not only for large-scale data lakes but also as lightweight feature stores for training and inference, or as document stores for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). However, querying petabyte-to-exabyte-scale data lakes directly from S3 remains notoriously slow, with latencies typically ranging from hundreds of milliseconds to several seconds.
In this webinar, David Zhu, Software Engineering Manager at Alluxio, will present the results of a joint collaboration between Alluxio and a leading SaaS and data infrastructure enterprise that explored leveraging Alluxio as a high-performance caching and acceleration layer atop AWS S3 for ultra-fast querying of Parquet files at PB scale.
David will share:
- How Alluxio delivers sub-millisecond Time-to-First-Byte (TTFB) for Parquet queries, comparable to S3 Express One Zone, without requiring specialized hardware, data format changes, or data migration from your existing data lake.
- The architecture that enables Alluxio’s throughput to scale linearly with cluster size, achieving one million queries per second on a modest 50-node deployment, surpassing S3 Express single-account throughput by 50x without latency degradation.
- Specifics on how Alluxio offloads partial Parquet read operations and reduces overhead, enabling direct, ultra-low-latency point queries in hundreds of microseconds and achieving a 1,000x performance gain over traditional S3 querying methods.
Speaker: David Zhu
David Zhu is a Software Engineer Manager at Alluxio. At Alluxio, David focuses on metadata management and end-to-end performance benchmarking and optimizations. Prior to that, David completed his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, with a focus on distributed data management systems and operating systems for the data center. David also holds a Bachelor of Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
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ALLUXIO DAY 2021
January 19, 2021
ALLUXIO DAY 2021
January 19, 2021
Electronic Arts (EA) is a leading company in the gaming industry, providing over a thousand games to serve billions of users worldwide. The EA Data & AI Department builds hundreds of platforms to manage petabytes of data generated by games and users every day. These platforms consist of a wide range of data analytics, from real-time data ingestion to ETL pipelines. Formatted data produced by our department is widely adopted by executives, producers, product managers, game engineers, and designers for marketing and monetization, game design, customer engagement, player retention, and end-user experience.
Near real-time information for EA’s online services is critical for making business decisions, such as campaigns and troubleshooting. These services include, but are not limited to, real-time data visualization, dashboarding, and conversational analytics. Highly time-sensitive applications such as BI software, dashboards and AI tools heavily rely on these services. To support these use cases, we studied an innovative platform with Presto as the computing engine and Alluxio as a data orchestration layer between Presto and S3 storage. We evaluated this platform with real industrial examples of data visualization, dashboarding, and a conversational chatbot. Our preliminary results show that Presto with Alluxio outperforms S3 significantly in all cases, with a 6x performance gain when handling a large number of small files.
Datasapiens is an international data-analytics startup based in Prague. We help our clients to uncover the value of their data and open up new revenue streams for them. We provide an end-to-end service that manages the data pipeline and automates the process of generating data insights.
In this talk, we will describe how we have solved an issue with large S3 API costs incurred by Presto under several usage concurrency levels by implementing Alluxio as a data orchestration layer between S3 and Presto. Also, we will show the results of an experiment with estimating the per-query S3 API costs using the TPC-DS dataset.
This talk will focus on:
- The Hadoop ecosystem at Datasapiens
- Drastic increase of S3 API costs during performance tests with Presto
- S3 API costs tests with TPC-DS
- Implications to the cloud data lake architecture
Video: Presentation Slides: Presentation Slides: Powering Interactive Analytics with Alluxio and Presto from Alluxio, Inc.
For many latency-sensitive SQL workloads, Presto is often bound by retrieving distant data. In this talk, Rohit Jain from Facebook will introduce their teams’ collaboration with Alluxio on adding a local on-SSD Alluxio cache inside Presto workers at Facebook to improve queries with unsatisfied latency.
Presto, an open source distributed SQL engine, is widely recognized for its low-latency queries, high concurrency, and native ability to query multiple data sources. Proven at scale in a variety of use cases at Comcast, GrubHub, FINRA, LinkedIn, Lyft, Netflix, Slack, Zalando, in the last few years Presto experienced an unprecedented growth in popularity in both on-premises and cloud deployments over Object Stores, HDFS, NoSQL and RDBMS data stores.
Delta Lake, a storage layer originally invented by Databricks and recently open sourced, brings ACID capabilities to big datasets held in Object Storage. While initially designed for Spark, Delta Lake now supports multiple query compute engines including Presto.
In this talk we discuss how Presto enables query-time correlations between Delta Lake, Snowflake, and Elasticsearch to drive interactive BI analytics across disparate datasets.
Presto & Alluxio on AWS: How we build a Up-To-Date Data-Platform at Ryte. Video: Presentation Slides: Introducing the Hub for Data Orchestration from Alluxio, Inc.
This talk introduces T3Go’s solution in building an enterprise-level data lake based on Apache Hudi & Alluxio, and how to use Alluxio to accelerate the reading and writing of data on the data lake when compute and storage are segregated.