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Andy Pavlo

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Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University,

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’15’20’25
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26 from 26 Aug 2013 to 4 Jan 2026
Posting
now and then (1 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog
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2026 1

  1. Databases in 2025: A Year in Review

2025 1

  1. Databases in 2024: A Year in Review

2024 1

  1. Databases in 2023: A Year in Review

2023 2

  1. Yes, PostgreSQL Has Problems. But We’re Sticking With It!
  2. The Part of PostgreSQL We Hate the Most

2022 2

  1. Databases in 2022: A Year in Review
  2. Ten Database Crack Commandments

2021 2

  1. Databases in 2021: A Year in Review
  2. You Are Overpaying Jeff Bezos For Your Databases (And The Things He Does With That Extra Money)

2020 1

  1. On Naming a Database Management System

2018 2

  1. An Updated Guide on Where to Apply for a PhD in Databases in the US (2018)
  2. What is a Self-Driving Database Management System?

2017 1

  1. Building a New Database Management System in Academia

2016 6

  1. Where to Apply for a PhD in Database Systems in the US (2016)
  2. Chasing the Dragon of OLTP Databases
  3. My Favorite Database Shirts
  4. The Carnegie Mellon Database Application Catalog
  5. CMU's New Graduate Database System Internals Course
  6. Should You Email a Professor During the Ph.D. Admissions Season?

2015 2

  1. How to Write a Bad Statement for a Computer Science Ph.D. Admissions Application
  2. The Next 50 Years of Databases

2014 2

  1. Open Problems in Transaction Processing (Part 2 of 3): Many-Core CPU Architectures
  2. Open Problems in Transaction Processing (Part 1 of 3): Non-Volatile Memory

2013 2

  1. Fall 2013 Database Research Projects
  2. Whereupon Andy Gets a Blog

Undated 1

  1. Pavlo cv2026.pdf