@InProceedings{zhang_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.34, author = {Zhang, Yihong and Suciu, Dan and Wang, Yisu Remy and Willsey, Max}, title = {{Database Theory in Action: Search-Based Program Optimization}}, booktitle = {28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025)}, pages = {34:1--34:6}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-364-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2025}, volume = {328}, editor = {Roy, Sudeepa and Kara, Ahmet}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.34}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-229759}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.34}, annote = {Keywords: Query optimization, program optimization, Cascades framework, equality saturation, Datalog} }