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Do you hate SQL and wish it would die & burn in hell? Or do you love SQL and wish it ran faster? If you answered 'yes' to either question then join our Spring 2025 @CMUDB Seminar Series: SQL or Death?
Mondays @ 4:30pm via Zoom.
Videos posted to YouTube: https://db.cs.cmu.edu/seminar2025/
Seminar Schedule:
Feb 10: Convex
Feb 17: The Germans (TUM)
Feb 24: Apache Pinot
Mar 03: Malloy
Mar 10: Google S
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Today is the new semester for @CMUDB's Intro to Database Systems! We're going harder into material than ever before. Projects are more challenging but you can use LLMs to help. We also have 10min talks each Wed from leading DB companies. Follow from home/prison on YouTube: https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2025
Everything is available for free to non-CMU students:
• Lectures on YouTube: https:/
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Spring 2026 @CMUDB Seminar Series: PostgreSQL vs. The World → https://db.cs.cmu.edu/seminars/spring2026/
Starting Mon Feb 2nd @ 4:30pm EST over Zoom. We will alternate between a speaker from either a Postgres DBMS or a non-Postgres DBMS. Open to the public. Videos available on YouTube afterwards.
SCHEDULE
‣ Feb 2: Redpanda Oxla
‣ Feb 9: Amazon Aurora DSQL
‣ Feb 16: TopK
‣ Feb 23: Microsoft Azure
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Next Monday Sept 22nd is the start of @CMUDB latest seminar series: Future Data Systems
We are hosting speakers from leading systems in the data lake / lakehouse space.
Mondays @ 4:30pm ET via Zoom. Open to the public. Videos posted to YouTube: https://db.cs.cmu.edu/seminars/fall2025/
🗓️ Schedule:
Sep 22: Apache Iceberg
Sep 29: Apache Hudi
Oct 06: MotherDuck DuckLake
Oct 13: SpiralDB's Vortex
Oct
📊 Post engagement
23
Avg engagement / post
1.5%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: New @CMUDB Course: Database Query Optimization This is a special · 53 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.2 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 7 text · 5 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
43×
Follows 36 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
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Spring 2026 @CMUDB Seminar Series: PostgreSQL vs. The World → https://db.cs.cmu.edu/seminars/spring2026/
Starting Mon Feb 2nd @ 4:30pm EST over Zoom. We will alternate between a speaker from either a Postgres DBMS or a non-Postgres DBMS. O…
Here is my latest article on the world of databases: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2026/01/2025-databases-retrospective.html
All the hot topics from the last year:
• More Postgres action!
• MCP for everyone!
• MongoDB gets litigious w…
Congratulations to the #1 ranked @CMUDB PhD student Wan Shen Lim for successfully passing his doctoral defense. Wan has been working on hard AF database research with me for the last *nine* years (undergrad+grad) at CMU. He also hates chi…
▶️ Do you like databases?
▶️ Do you want to hear two database professors rant about them?
▶️ Do you need one of those professors to have a Turing Award for databases?
If you answered yes, then join Mike Stonebraker and I next Wed Dec 10 @ …
Monday Sept 22nd is the start of @CMUDB latest seminar series: Future Data Systems
We are hosting speakers from leading systems in the data lake / lakehouse space.
Mondays @ 4:30pm ET via Zoom. Open to the public. Videos posted to YouTube…
Next Monday Sept 22nd is the start of @CMUDB latest seminar series: Future Data Systems
We are hosting speakers from leading systems in the data lake / lakehouse space.
Mondays @ 4:30pm ET via Zoom. Open to the public. Videos posted to Yo…
Today is the new semester for @CMUDB's Intro to Database Systems! We're going harder into material than ever before. Projects are more challenging but you can use LLMs to help. We also have 10min talks each Wed from leading DB companies. F…
Do you hate SQL and wish it would die & burn in hell? Or do you love SQL and wish it ran faster? If you answered 'yes' to either question then join our Spring 2025 @CMUDB Seminar Series: SQL or Death?
Mondays @ 4:30pm via Zoom.
Videos post…
We're banging into the new year with my annual retrospective of the last year in databases! Highlights include license change blowbacks, Databricks vs. Snowflake gangwar, DuckDB's shotgun weddings, and how to buy a quarterback with databas…
Alexey Milovidov's recent ClickHouse talk at CWI is hilariously off-the-chain. I highly recommend watching it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmVxfGEN0QQ
You can hear me yelling at him from the audience at 1:09, 2:40, and 7:33.
The video for my "What Goes Around Comes Around... And Around" talk at CWI is now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Woy5I511L8
📊Slides: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/slides/whatgoesaround2024.pdf
📄Paper: https://db.cs.cmu.edu/pap…
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Home server
discuss.systems
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✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 23 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.2× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
89/100
Excellent
Credibility score
99%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~1.5% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
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