diff --git a/script/formatting/config/pylintrc b/script/formatting/config/pylintrc
index 721c40d..02ade7d 100644
--- a/script/formatting/config/pylintrc
+++ b/script/formatting/config/pylintrc
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ profile=no
 
 # Add files or directories to the blacklist. They should be base names, not
 # paths.
-ignore=CVS,.git,manage.py,0001_initial.py,0002_enable_compression.py,0003_load_initial_data.py,0004_add_lhs.py,0005_add_workload_field.py,credentials.py,create_knob_settings.py
+ignore=CVS,.git,manage.py,0001_initial.py,0002_enable_compression.py,0003_load_initial_data.py,0004_add_lhs.py,0005_add_workload_field.py,0006_session_hyper_parameters.py,credentials.py,create_knob_settings.py
 
 # ignore-patterns=**/migrations/*.py
 
diff --git a/server/website/website/settings/constants.py b/server/website/website/settings/constants.py
index a476dd7..51da41d 100644
--- a/server/website/website/settings/constants.py
+++ b/server/website/website/settings/constants.py
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@
 # These parameters are not specified for any session, so they can only be set here
 
 # address categorical knobs (enum, boolean)
-enable_dummy_encoder = False
+ENABLE_DUMMY_ENCODER = False
 
 # ---PIPELINE CONSTANTS---
 #  how often to run the background tests, in seconds
-run_every = 300
+RUN_EVERY = 300
 
 
 # ---------------------------------------------
diff --git a/server/website/website/tasks/async_tasks.py b/server/website/website/tasks/async_tasks.py
index c7a2583..fc4c2da 100644
--- a/server/website/website/tasks/async_tasks.py
+++ b/server/website/website/tasks/async_tasks.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ from website.models import PipelineData, PipelineRun, Result, Workload, SessionK
 from website import db
 from website.types import PipelineTaskType, AlgorithmType, VarType
 from website.utils import DataUtil, JSONUtil
-from website.settings import enable_dummy_encoder
+from website.settings import ENABLE_DUMMY_ENCODER
 
 
 LOG = get_task_logger(__name__)
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ def combine_workload(target_data):
     X_matrix = np.vstack([X_target, X_workload])
 
     # Dummy encode categorial variables
-    if enable_dummy_encoder:
+    if ENABLE_DUMMY_ENCODER:
         categorical_info = DataUtil.dummy_encoder_helper(X_columnlabels,
                                                          mapped_workload.dbms)
         dummy_encoder = DummyEncoder(categorical_info['n_values'],
@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ def configuration_recommendation(recommendation_input):
     best_config = res.minl_conf[best_config_idx, :]
     best_config = X_scaler.inverse_transform(best_config)
 
-    if enable_dummy_encoder:
+    if ENABLE_DUMMY_ENCODER:
         # Decode one-hot encoding into categorical knobs
         best_config = dummy_encoder.inverse_transform(best_config)
 
diff --git a/server/website/website/tasks/periodic_tasks.py b/server/website/website/tasks/periodic_tasks.py
index b99fa26..bb789fd 100644
--- a/server/website/website/tasks/periodic_tasks.py
+++ b/server/website/website/tasks/periodic_tasks.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ from analysis.preprocessing import (Bin, get_shuffle_indices,
                                     DummyEncoder,
                                     consolidate_columnlabels)
 from website.models import PipelineData, PipelineRun, Result, Workload
-from website.settings import run_every, enable_dummy_encoder
+from website.settings import RUN_EVERY, ENABLE_DUMMY_ENCODER
 from website.types import PipelineTaskType, WorkloadStatusType
 from website.utils import DataUtil, JSONUtil
 
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ MIN_WORKLOAD_RESULTS_COUNT = 5
 
 
 # Run the background tasks every 'RUN_EVERY' seconds
-@periodic_task(run_every=run_every, name="run_background_tasks")
+@periodic_task(run_every=RUN_EVERY, name="run_background_tasks")
 def run_background_tasks():
     LOG.debug("Starting background tasks")
     # Find modified and not modified workloads, we only have to calculate for the
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ def run_knob_identification(knob_data, metric_data, dbms):
             nonconst_metric_columnlabels.append(cl)
     nonconst_metric_matrix = np.hstack(nonconst_metric_matrix)
 
-    if enable_dummy_encoder:
+    if ENABLE_DUMMY_ENCODER:
         # determine which knobs need encoding (enums with >2 possible values)
 
         categorical_info = DataUtil.dummy_encoder_helper(nonconst_knob_columnlabels,
diff --git a/server/website/website/views.py b/server/website/website/views.py
index e203cb8..d9e608b 100644
--- a/server/website/website/views.py
+++ b/server/website/website/views.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ from .tasks import (aggregate_target_results, map_workload, train_ddpg,
                     configuration_recommendation, configuration_recommendation_ddpg)
 from .types import (DBMSType, KnobUnitType, MetricType,
                     TaskType, VarType, WorkloadStatusType, AlgorithmType)
-from .utils import (JSONUtil, LabelUtil, MediaUtil, TaskUtil, ConversionUtil, get_constants)
+from .utils import (JSONUtil, LabelUtil, MediaUtil, TaskUtil)
 from .settings import LOG_DIR, TIME_ZONE
 
 from .set_default_knobs import set_default_knobs