OtterTune
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
OtterTune was a Pittsburgh cloud software company spun out of the Carnegie Mellon Database Research Group in 2020 by associate professor Andy Pavlo with Dana Van Aken and Bohan Zhang. Based on their academic OtterTune research project on self-driving database architectures, it offered a machine-learning service that automatically tuned database configuration knobs - hundreds of settings that affect performance and cloud costs - plus database health checks to mitigate outages. It supported PostgreSQL and MySQL on Amazon RDS and Aurora.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Andy Pavlo became CEO of OtterTune, Inc., co-founded with Dana Van Aken and Bohan Zhang; the company launched its private beta with a $2.5 million seed round led by Accel.
- Series A
OtterTune raised a $12 million Series A led by Intel Capital and Race Capital with Accel participating, bringing total funding to $14.5 million; it added support for Amazon Aurora and database health checks.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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