Tim OReilly draws on lessons from networked platforms to show how our economy and financial markets have also become increasingly managed by algorithms, making the case that income inequality, declining upward mobility, and job losses due to technology are not inevitable; they are the result of design choices we have made in the algorithms that manage our markets.

Wojciech Biela and ukasz Osipiuk offer an introduction to Presto, an open source distributed analytical SQL engine that enables users to run interactive queries over their datasets stored in various data sources, and explore its applications in various big data problems.

Michael Noll explains how Apache Kafka helps you radically simplify your data processing architectures by building normal applications to serve your real-time processing needs rather than building clusters or similar special-purpose infrastructurewhile still benefiting from properties typically associated exclusively with cluster technologies.

Teradata joined the Presto community in 2015 and is now a leading contributor to this open source SQL engine, originally created by Facebook. Join Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski to learn about Presto, Teradata's recent enhancements in query performance, security integrations, and ANSI SQL coverage, and its roadmap for 2017 and beyond.