Data in the Hallway

In this episode, Nabil Nawaz (Principal Solutions Engineer from PingCAP) shares his experience from more than two decades of work with database customers. He also talked about what adjustments he had to make for working at an open source software company. You can also listen on your favorite podcast platforms such as Apple Podcast, Spotify, etc. For a full list of podcast platforms, you can check...

In this episode, we talk to Jules Damji from  @anyscale and discuss what LLMs are and how they relate to AI. We also have an in depth discussion on what's involved in building LLMs and some of the data requirements.  To learn more about the ray.io community, you can visit https://www.ray.io/  You can also listen on your favorite podcast platforms such as Apple Podcast, Spotify, etc. For a ful...

In this episode, we talked to Peter Zaitsev (Founder of Percona)  about where open source is today following his presentation at the HTAP Summit 2023. We discussed recent developments/challenges in open source software and Peter's thoughts on a "spectrum" of approaches that open source companies can take.  HTAP summit session replays are available at https://www.pingcap.com/htap-sum...

In this episode, we talk to Stephen J. Barr (Principal Architect & Technical Evangelist at CloudFix) about how developers can get a better understanding of their cloud costs and optimize their AWS cloud infrastructure investments.   AWS Made Easy Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@awsmadeeasy  CloudFix blogs: https://cloudfix.com/blog/  You can also listen on your favorite podcast platforms...

In this episode, we talk to Mike Jang (Lead Technical Writer at Forescout Technologies) about his philosophy on what makes a good documentation and how having an open source documentation makes it easier to get feedback from the end user community.  TiDB Docs Dash blog post: https://www.pingcap.com/blog/why-documentation-is-important/ Event page: https://www.pingcap.com/event/tidb-docs-dash/  You...

In this episode, we talk to Brian Foster (Director of Content Marketing at PingCAP) about the O’Reilly Report titled High-Performance Data Architectures. We discuss what was involved in creating a report, what our community members can learn from the content, and future plans.   High-Performance Data Architectures (O’Reilly Report): https://www.pingcap.com/ebook-whitepaper/oreilly-high-performance...

In this episode, we talk to Arun Vijayraghavan (Principal Product Manager at PingCAP) about the TiDB Cloud Data Service, including its benefits, target audience, use cases and future plans.  TiDB Cloud Data Service documentation page: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidbcloud/data-service-overview#tidb-cloud-data-service-beta-overview  Convex AI project page (from the TiDB FutureApp Hackathon): https://d...

In this episode, we talk to Festus Idowu and Victor Olufemi about their TiDB FutureApp Hackathon project Argobotfarms to help farmers in sub-saharan Africa. Festus and Victor discuss when they first got the idea for their project and how various features of TiDB Serverless were used.  Check out the Argobotfarms project page: https://devpost.com/software/agrobotfarms  You can also listen on your fa...

In this episode, we talk to Emily Kyle (Head of Marketing at ProjectDiscovery.io) about why we do events, how events can be more meaningful for the developer audience, and if events changed after the Covid-19 pandemic. We also discuss tips for developers and technical audience on how they can get the most out of conferences.  Check out the HTAP Summit page: https://www.pingcap.com/htap-summit/  Yo...

In this episode, we talk to Adam Furmanek (Head of DevRel at Metis: https://www.metisdata.io/) about what database developers can do to ensure their applications work and scale. Adam discusses monitoring, observability, and things to consider pre & post production.  Joint meetup with PingCAP & Metis on September 6, 2023: https://www.pingcap.com/event/what-you-need-to-know-to-tame-unpredict...

In this episode, we discuss being a product manager at an open source company with our guest Sam Dillard (Principal Product Manager at PingCAP). Sam talks about his role as a Product Manager and how he likes to collaborate with community members.   If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at podcast@pingcap.com.  —————————  About PingCAP and TiDB ————————— PingCAP is...

In this episode, we discuss database benchmarking with our guest Ahmad Ghazal (Distinguished Engineer at PingCAP). Ahmad talks about the limitation of existing benchmarks for HTAP (Hybrid transactional/analytical processing), and the work he's doing with other researchers to develop a new HTAP benchmark for modern user cases such as Web3.   If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes...

In this episode, we discuss with our guest Fan Wang how OSS Insight got started. Fan discusses how   OSS Insight  continues PingCAP's tradition of contributing to open source, technical challenges for OSS Insight, and how TiDB helped meet these challenges. We also discussed integration with Open AI and the upcoming OSS Insight Lite, which will help developers create personalized GitHub dashbo...

In this episode, we discuss with our guest Matt Germonprez (Professor at University of Nebraska-Omaha) the history of academic research on open source and open source community health. We then discuss the CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics in Open Source Software) project including how the project got started and how it has evolved to address the DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) efforts in c...

In this episode, we discuss with our guest Sunny Bains how MySQL is still very popular today. We talk about the community and some of the key features of MySQL.  Link to the TiDB Development guide that was discussed when discussing contributions to MySQL or TiDB communities : https://pingcap.github.io/tidb-dev-guide/  If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at podcas...

In this episode, we discuss with our guest  Rajendra Kadam (Sr. Backend Engineer at GitLab) his prior experience with Hackathons and how they can help developers especially early in their careers. Rajendra talks about how Hackathons helped with his job searches and shares advice for anyone considering participating in hackathons.   Link to the TiDB FutureApp Hackathon: http://tidbhackathon2023.dev...

In this launch episode of the new podcast series, Data in the Hallway, series co-hosts Brian Foster, Daniel van Eeden, and Ray Paik discuss the goals of the series, the significance of the podcast name, and what listeners can look forward to in future episodes.  If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at podcast@pingcap.com.  —————————  About PingCAP and TiDB ———————...