TiKV, TiDB and PingCAP, with Ed Huang
Episode 121 of the Kubernetes Podcast from Google podcast, hosted by Abdel Sghiouar, Kaslin Fields, titled "TiKV, TiDB and PingCAP, with Ed Huang" was published on September 15, 2020 and runs 38 minutes.
September 15, 2020 ·38m · Kubernetes Podcast from Google
Episode Description
Ed Huang is co-founder and CTO of PingCAP, creators of the TiDB distributed database and the TiKV key value store. Ed worked on clustering Redis while at Wandou Labs, creating and open-sourcing a tool called Codis. Deciding to focus on this space, he created TiDB and then TiKV, and founded PingCAP. He shares the story behind the projects, bridging the gap between China and the West with open source, and his Desert Island Disc.
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Chatter of the week
News of the week
- Lens 3.6.0
- Security groups for Pods on AWS EKS
- CNCF End User Technology Radar for Observability
- Kotary by CA-GIP
- OnePanel and its docs
- WebAssembly OCI spec
- Red Hat Marketplace by IBM
- Stackrox lands $25m in funding
- Introducing Nutanix Platform Services by Amit Jain
- Confidential Computing on GCP and GKE
- New Serverless training course by Alex Ellis
- Jetstack CNI migration notes by Josh Van Leeuwen
Links from the interview
- Wandou Labs
- Codis clustering for Redis
- Spanner and F1 papers from Google Research
- TiDB
- TiKV
- PingCAP
- Local Persistent Volumes in Kubernetes and beta launch blog explaining it
- TiKV's CNCF journey:
- Chaos Mesh
- Wasm and Wasmer
- Dark Side of the Moon
- Ed Huang on Twitter
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