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This isnt really true, Meta if anything has doubled down on Velox.

Curious if you’re both right. Could it be because of the orgs involved? Which teams are using it? What products?

Presto is actively switching to use Velox as the backend ( https://github.com/prestodb/presto/tree/master/presto-native... ) . It is also being used extensively internally, again the paper describes these and their usages have grown , not reduced.