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Distributed Query Engines
Understand where single-node Postgres stops and distributed engines begin. Compare Trino/Presto-style execution with pragmatic guardrails for small teams.
Duration: 5 weeks · 44 hours · Format: Cohort with pair labs
Price (informational): ¥210,000
Request informationWhat is included
- Shuffle cost intuition with toy examples
- Spill-to-disk symptoms and fixes
- Federation patterns with latency budgets
- Metadata catalog hygiene
- When to refuse a distributed query
Outcomes
- Recommend engine choice with a latency table
- Sketch a catalog strategy for five sources
- Identify a workload that should stay in Postgres
Lead contact
Theo Andersson
Query engine performance specialist; former research engineer.
FAQ
Mentioned for awareness; labs use single-node Trino for simplicity.
Not covered.
No vendor benchmark marketing; numbers stay illustrative.
Participant notes
Spill file lab mirrored our Friday incidents. Federation section shorter than I wanted but precise.
Wei · Adtech vendor · 4/5
Latency table template went straight to architecture review.
Amelia · Platform engineer