Presto lets us trade APIs for queryable data-structures. Many APIs are already in Presto including Jira, TIPS, and DAG data. MARS uses Presto to run batch-procesing jobs against these data-structures. SQL is the (unfortunate) lingua-franca in this land.
This is a new and foreign situation for some of us, but it's not scary. If you know some MQL or even basic Python you can pick up Presto's SQL easily to quickly explore data within dev-prod and the rest of the company. And MARS is both simpler and more powerful than you might guess.
In a few days everyone in dev-prod and STAR will automatically have access to Presto. Let's hit the ground running.