Data Federation, Not Centralization, Is What Enterprise AI Needs

Jitender Aswani was customer zero for Presto at Meta, scaled it at Netflix, and now runs engineering and security at Starburst, the $3.35 billion data platform built on Trino. He explains why the average enterprise has 52 to 200 data sources, why centralizing them will never work, and what happened to Starburst's query volume the day they shipped an MCP server.