Leaving Facebook/Meta was the best thing we could do for the community

&gt; Engineers at these highly competitive companies must create memorable work, or they will not get the promotions they deserve.<p>If everybody gets promoted because of &quot;memorable&quot; work, maybe nobody actually deserves the promotions, and they&#x27;re just handed out at the whim of whoever remembers your work?

I&#x27;m curious to know if this is anyone&#x27;s first time hearing about Trino?

<i>&quot;Feedback from these engineers ultimately culminated in the managers making the decision to give automatic contributor rights to any Facebook engineer working on Presto, so that these engineers could move faster.&quot;</i><p>I&#x27;m confused -- does Facebook not have similar code review infrastructure as Google, etc. That is: nothing -- I mean <i>nothing</i> -- gets &quot;contributed&quot; at Google without it going through code review.<p>Were FB engineers able to commit directly without review? Or is it that they were given some kind of &quot;owners&quot; privilege to fast track reviews? This all sounds bad.

I love seeing there are people dedicated to keeping open-source projects like Trino alive, ready to make some hard decisions.

Just a quick follow up .. here is some of the innovation that happened in the project in the last decade - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trino.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;08&#x2F;04&#x2F;decade-innovation.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trino.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;08&#x2F;04&#x2F;decade-innovation.html</a>

why did Presto got renamed to Trino? so confusing...

Same problem occurs for consulting companies as well. You may get a big company, but they would exhaust all your time and attention, demanding changes that only benefit them.<p>Although, in this case it was code changes and features that only suited Fb

Maybe I&#x27;m just being cynical here, but did leaving Meta facilitate the creation of Starburst enterprise based on open source Trino?

TIL or xkcd.com&#x2F;1053 &quot;lucky 10,000&#x27;d&quot;:<p>&gt; <i>Presto, a distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics</i><p>&gt; <i>we were forced to rebrand and changed the name to Trino</i>