🎵 Yo what’s up! We’ve got a special intro for you this week And a 🔥 episode with OtterTune’s Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social) & Dana Van Aken 🎛️ Tune in to get a primer on database knob tuning and learn where ML fits in Listen: apple.co/3AcshLl

Check out last week's episode of The Data Stack Show to hear Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social) and Dana Van Aken discuss how OtterTune's algorithms do their best work over time to optimize your database and provide you peace of mind. datastackshow.com/podcast/databa…

Everyone loves PostgreSQL these days. But there is a part of Postgres' architecture from the 1980s that causes many performance + storage issues for people. So Bohan Zhang and I wrote a new OtterTune blog article about why it is and why it sucks: ottertune.com/blog/the-part-…

Join us at #PerconaLive2023 for a talk by Andy Pavlo from CMU/OtterTune on "Why Machine Learning for Automatically Optimizing Databases Doesn't Work". Don't miss out on this insightful discussion on May 22-24 #DatabaseOptimization #AIinDatabases #MLfails percona.com/live/conferenc…

Do you like tacos & Postgres?! If so, we have just the event for you!🌮💻🎉 YugabyteDB is hosting the next PostgreSQL SV meet-up, where database expert Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social) will present 'Why Machine Learning for Automatically Optimizing Databases Doesn't Work.'💡 hubs.la/Q01Xk5-Z0

🚀 We launched on Product Hunt 😸 yesterday! 🎉 To celebrate, we're giving 25% off OtterTune to the first 25 customers that use a special promo code. Check out our page to learn more and get the promo code 👉 producthunt.com/posts/ottertune.

Today's ML⇄DB Seminar Speaker: Dana Van Aken (CMU Computer Science Department PhD'21) will present OtterTune's approach to using ML to automatically optimize PostgreSQL and MySQL databases. Zoom talk is open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available afterwards: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/ml-db-2…

🦦 OtterTune Co-Founder Bohan Zhang will be presenting at TiDB, powered by PingCAP's HTAP Summit. He will discuss lessons learned from applying machine learning to optimize databases in the real world. While the summit is sold out and registration is closed, you can click on "Sign Up for

🎙️DATA MASTERS PODCAST ALERT We chat with Dana Van Aken, the genius behind OtterTune - a game-changing SaaS harnessing the power of Bayesian optimization and AI to redefine how we tune databases. 🚀 open.spotify.com/episode/5fTfBl…

.CMU Database Group ML⇄DB Seminar Series Video #2 — Dana Van Aken (Dana Van Aken) OtterTune: AI-Powered Database Optimization as a Service! youtube.com/watch?v=glBoRy…

Did you miss OtterTune Co-Founder Dana Van Aken's database optimization talk for CMU Database Group? Catch a replay. She covers how OtterTune works and helps optimize databases, real-world database challenges and answers audience questions. youtube.com/watch?v=glBoRy…

🎙️ Thanks to Tamr for having OtterTune CTO and Co-Founder Dana Van Aken on the Data Masters podcast to talk about using AI to tune and improve databases. Check out the full podcast episode here ➡️ tamr.com/podcast/bayesi….

Did you miss Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social)'s "Databases in 2023: A Year in Review" blog? Check out our video companion where he goes over the blog and provides additional commentary youtube.com/watch?v=UJ-CKr…

Last week's Seattle Postgres User Group meetup is online! youtube.com/watch?v=Lu4Qqq… The spring lineup is amazing: OtterTune Bohan on MVCC, Paul Ramsey on PostGIS, Joseph Conway on PostgreSQL dev & release, and Drew Wolin on higher level data analysis. meetup.com/seattle-postgr…

We're super fortunate to have Liam Francis Walsh provide illustrations of DJ OT for OtterTune. Check out the dedication that goes into these. View more of Liam's work at liamfranciswalsh.com and ottertune.com.

Want to learn the good, the bad and the ugly about Postgres internals? Specifically its MVCC implementation? Details are now on the Seattle Postgres User Group site for our next meetup March 7 w Bohan Zhang meetup.com/seattle-postgr… For updates, join at meetup.com/seattle-postgr…

Somebody tipped me off that a 2022 paper out of Saudia Arabia blatantly stole our entire 2019 ICDE Bulletin survey paper on using ML automatically optimize databases. + 2022 Plagiarism: eajournals.org/ejcsit/vol10-i… + 2019 Original: db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2019/pa…

Vector databases won't replace SQL! Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social) is on The Data Engineering Show 🔥: firebolt.io/blog/vector-da… #dataengineering #sql #database

I'm to sad to announce that OtterTune is officially dead. Our service is shutdown and we let everyone go today (1mo notice). I can't got into details of what happened but we got screwed over by a PE Postgres company on an acquisition offer. ottertune.com/index.html

It took three years to finish, but our follow-up to the 2006 "What Goes Around Comes Around" is finally out! Stonebraker and I examine the last 20 years in databases and discuss why relational databases + SQL will continue to remain on top. 📄PDF: db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2024/wh…