Please comment below if Andy has in any way positively improved your life or helped you further your education/career.
I can start:
- Early in 2022, I decided I wanted to learn how databases like Postgres work and build one from scratch. If it wasn't for the CMU lectures available to the public on YouTube, I don't think I would have been able to give myself anywhere near a decent education.
- This year, Andy even made the homework-grading platform available to the public, so you could submit solutions to the database coursework and get graded as if you were a student attending CMU.
- Not only does Andy take the time to record, edit, and upload his lectures to the public, but he hosts a yearly seminar series where he interviews speakers from all over the database industry (https://db.cs.cmu.edu/seminar2022)
- Andy does all he does (Professorship) on top of running OtterTune, I have no idea how he functions. He truly is the realest of all gangsters, and a secret member of the Wu-Tang Clan. Andy makes databases fun.