data infrastructure, platform teams struggle to tune clusters to meet business demands due to expertise, or the sheer volume of workloads running (e.g. you cannot manually tune 10K jobs) Alternatives Gradient Opinionated optimization Leverage years of research and millions of DBUs managed that have shaped opinions about the right metrics to monitor and power Gradient’s intelligent insights & custom optimizations. Advanced ML models Gradient’s self-improving ML algorithms were developed at MIT. They use closed-loop feedback to continue to improve Passive recommendations Lists of optimizations that might have an impact, can only take you so far. Active management of data infrastructure Gradient automates compute optimization with ML-powered optimizations, customized per workload