Performance engineering · Satya Prakash Solanki

Case studies

Technical deep divePerformance
How do you benchmark a query engine so the numbers survive a second run?
A reference harness for running a workload derived from TPC-H on Trino and Iceberg, with controlled environments, statistical reporting and CI regression gates.
12 min read

Articles

1 Oct 2026 · 7 min read
TPC-H benchmarking with Trino · Part 4
Turning a query engine benchmark into a performance regression test
Baselines, noise, run counts, statistical comparison and per-query thresholds for catching Trino performance regressions in CI.
30 Sept 2026 · 9 min read
TPC-H benchmarking with Trino · Part 3
Reading Trino query plans to find bottlenecks in TPC-H derived queries
How to read EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN ANALYZE in Trino, and what fragments, exchanges, join distribution, dynamic filters and statistics tell you.
16 Mar 2024
TPC-H benchmarking with Trino · Part 2
Measuring Performance Excellence: Trino TPC-H Benchmark, Part 2 (opens Towards Dev in a new tab)
A hands-on walkthrough of setting up Trino, running the TPC-H workload on a test machine and generating an execution report.
Towards Dev
6 Aug 2023
TPC-H benchmarking with Trino · Part 1
Measuring Performance Excellence: TPC-H Benchmark, Part 1 (opens Towards Dev in a new tab)
Why benchmarking matters for data analytics platforms, what the TPC-H workload measures, its 22 queries, and the practical challenges of running it well.
Towards Dev

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