About
Andy Pavlo is an Associate Professor of Databaseology in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the co-founder of OtterTune (https://ottertune.com). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University under Stan Zdonik and Mike Stonebraker.
OtterTune: An Automatic Database Configuration Tuning Service
Using Machine Learning to Automatically Optimize Postgres
presented by Andy Pavlo
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Database management systems (DBMS) expose dozens of configurable knobs that control their runtime behavior. Setting these knobs correctly for an application's workload can improve the performance and efficiency of the DBMS. But such tuning requires considerable efforts from experienced administrators, which is not scalable for large DBMS fleets. This problem has led to research on using machine...
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