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I had a feeling this was OtterTune's product through a reading of the abstract before I noticed the names. Really interesting and excited to see where they take it.

ps. Brent you helped kickstart my career when I was exposed to your early contributions on StackOverflow and MetaStackOverflow. By far the largest accelerant I ever had on the DBMS front, really cool seeing you around so I wanted to send a friendly thank you.

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> I had a feeling this was OtterTune's product through a reading of the abstract before I noticed the names.

No, this project is separate from OtterTune. I keep our CMU research strictly firewalled from OtterTune for legal reasons.

The Database Gym project rose up from the ashes of the NoisePage self-driving DBMS project. See my comment from last week about why it failed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36355963

a random aside, I truly thank you for your course. You're the teacher I wish I had in my bachelor's 8 years back. Singlehandedly revived my interest in learning databases. :).

Through your course, I reached a stage where I can help OSS projects and its features.

> so I wanted to send a friendly thank you.

Awww, thanks! That's awesome to hear! My big goal is to make other peoples' journeys through data easier.

I can second his appreciation, posts on your site helped me keep my sanity as a junior developer who stood to close to a database server.

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