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 out https://datainthehallway.buzzsprout.com/. 

If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at [email protected]. 

————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————

PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedSQL database with #MySQL compatibility. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database.

————————— Developer resources —————————

💫TiDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/TiDB_Developer
💫Introducing TiDB: https://youtu.be/_QBrPBwFoWM
💫Quick start with TiDB: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/quick-start-with-tidb
💫TiDB in #Kubernetes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb-in-kubernetes/stable

————————— Connect with PingCAP —————————

🔹Twitter: https://twitter.com/PingCAP
🔹LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/pingcap
🔹Facebook: https://facebook.com/pingcap2015
🔹Slack: https://slack.tidb.io/invite?team=tidb-community&channel=everyone&ref=pingcap
🔹GitHub: https://github.com/pingcap

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 full list of podcast platforms, you can check out https://datainthehallway.buzzsprout.com/. 

If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at [email protected]. 

————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————

PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedSQL database with #MySQL compatibility. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database.

————————— Developer resources —————————

💫TiDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/TiDB_Developer
💫Introducing TiDB: https://youtu.be/_QBrPBwFoWM
💫Quick start with TiDB: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/quick-start-with-tidb
💫TiDB in #Kubernetes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb-in-kubernetes/stable

————————— Connect with PingCAP —————————

🔹Twitter: https://twitter.com/PingCAP
🔹LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/pingcap
🔹Facebook: https://facebook.com/pingcap2015
🔹Slack: https://slack.tidb.io/invite?team=tidb-community&channel=everyone&ref=pingcap
🔹GitHub: https://github.com/pingcap

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-summit/sept-2023/ 

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 out https://datainthehallway.buzzsprout.com/. 

If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at [email protected]. 

————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————

PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedSQL database with #MySQL compatibility. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database.

————————— Developer resources —————————

💫TiDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/TiDB_Developer
💫Introducing TiDB: https://youtu.be/_QBrPBwFoWM
💫Quick start with TiDB: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/quick-start-with-tidb
💫TiDB in #Kubernetes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb-in-kubernetes/stable

————————— Connect with PingCAP —————————

🔹Twitter: https://twitter.com/PingCAP
🔹LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/pingcap
🔹Facebook: https://facebook.com/pingcap2015
🔹Slack: https://slack.tidb.io/invite?team=tidb-community&channel=everyone&ref=pingcap
🔹GitHub: https://github.com/pingcap

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 such as Apple Podcast, Spotify, etc. For a full list of podcast platforms, you can check out https://datainthehallway.buzzsprout.com/. 

If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at [email protected]. 

————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————

PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedSQL database with #MySQL compatibility. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database.

————————— Developer resources —————————

💫TiDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/TiDB_Developer
💫Introducing TiDB: https://youtu.be/_QBrPBwFoWM
💫Quick start with TiDB: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/quick-start-with-tidb
💫TiDB in #Kubernetes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb-in-kubernetes/stable

————————— Connect with PingCAP —————————

🔹Twitter: https://twitter.com/PingCAP
🔹LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/pingcap
🔹Facebook: https://facebook.com/pingcap2015
🔹Slack: https://slack.tidb.io/invite?team=tidb-community&channel=everyone&ref=pingcap
🔹GitHub: https://github.com/pingcap

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 can also listen on your favorite podcast platforms such as Apple Podcast, Spotify, etc. For a full list of podcast platforms, you can check out https://datainthehallway.buzzsprout.com/. 

If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at [email protected]. 

————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————

PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedSQL database with #MySQL compatibility. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database.

————————— Developer resources —————————

💫TiDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/TiDB_Developer
💫Introducing TiDB: https://youtu.be/_QBrPBwFoWM
💫Quick start with TiDB: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/quick-start-with-tidb
💫TiDB in #Kubernetes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb-in-kubernetes/stable

————————— Connect with PingCAP —————————

🔹Twitter: https://twitter.com/PingCAP
🔹LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/pingcap
🔹Facebook: https://facebook.com/pingcap2015
🔹Slack: https://slack.tidb.io/invite?team=tidb-community&channel=everyone&ref=pingcap
🔹GitHub: https://github.com/pingcap

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-data-architecture-report/

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 out https://datainthehallway.buzzsprout.com/. 

If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at [email protected]. 

————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————

PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedSQL database with #MySQL compatibility. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database.

————————— Developer resources —————————

💫TiDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/TiDB_Developer
💫Introducing TiDB: https://youtu.be/_QBrPBwFoWM
💫Quick start with TiDB: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/quick-start-with-tidb
💫TiDB in #Kubernetes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb-in-kubernetes/stable

————————— Connect with PingCAP —————————

🔹Twitter: https://twitter.com/PingCAP
🔹LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/pingcap
🔹Facebook: https://facebook.com/pingcap2015
🔹Slack: https://slack.tidb.io/invite?team=tidb-community&channel=everyone&ref=pingcap
🔹GitHub: https://github.com/pingcap

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://devpost.com/software/mo-ai 

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 out https://datainthehallway.buzzsprout.com/. 

If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at [email protected]. 

————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————

PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedSQL database with #MySQL compatibility. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database.

————————— Developer resources —————————

💫TiDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/TiDB_Developer
💫Introducing TiDB: https://youtu.be/_QBrPBwFoWM
💫Quick start with TiDB: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/quick-start-with-tidb
💫TiDB in #Kubernetes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb-in-kubernetes/stable

————————— Connect with PingCAP —————————

🔹Twitter: https://twitter.com/PingCAP
🔹LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/pingcap
🔹Facebook: https://facebook.com/pingcap2015
🔹Slack: https://slack.tidb.io/invite?team=tidb-community&channel=everyone&ref=pingcap
🔹GitHub: https://github.com/pingcap

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 favorite podcast platforms such as Apple Podcast, Spotify, etc. For a full list of podcast platforms, you can check out https://datainthehallway.buzzsprout.com/. 

If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at [email protected]. 

————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————

PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedSQL database with #MySQL compatibility. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database.

————————— Developer resources —————————

💫TiDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/TiDB_Developer
💫Introducing TiDB: https://youtu.be/_QBrPBwFoWM
💫Quick start with TiDB: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/quick-start-with-tidb
💫TiDB in #Kubernetes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb-in-kubernetes/stable

————————— Connect with PingCAP —————————

🔹Twitter: https://twitter.com/PingCAP
🔹LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/pingcap
🔹Facebook: https://facebook.com/pingcap2015
🔹Slack: https://slack.tidb.io/invite?team=tidb-community&channel=everyone&ref=pingcap
🔹GitHub: https://github.com/pingcap

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/ 

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 out https://datainthehallway.buzzsprout.com/. 

If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at [email protected]. 

————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————

PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedSQL database with #MySQL compatibility. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database.

————————— Developer resources —————————

💫TiDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/TiDB_Developer
💫Introducing TiDB: https://youtu.be/_QBrPBwFoWM
💫Quick start with TiDB: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/quick-start-with-tidb
💫TiDB in #Kubernetes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb-in-kubernetes/stable

————————— Connect with PingCAP —————————

🔹Twitter: https://twitter.com/PingCAP
🔹LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/pingcap
🔹Facebook: https://facebook.com/pingcap2015
🔹Slack: https://slack.tidb.io/invite?team=tidb-community&channel=everyone&ref=pingcap
🔹GitHub: https://github.com/pingcap

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-unpredictable-workloads/ 

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 out https://datainthehallway.buzzsprout.com/. 

If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at [email protected]. 

————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————

PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedSQL database with #MySQL compatibility. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database.

————————— Developer resources —————————

💫TiDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/TiDB_Developer
💫Introducing TiDB: https://youtu.be/_QBrPBwFoWM
💫Quick start with TiDB: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/quick-start-with-tidb
💫TiDB in #Kubernetes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb-in-kubernetes/stable

————————— Connect with PingCAP —————————

🔹Twitter: https://twitter.com/PingCAP
🔹LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/pingcap
🔹Facebook: https://facebook.com/pingcap2015
🔹Slack: https://slack.tidb.io/invite?team=tidb-community&channel=everyone&ref=pingcap
🔹GitHub: https://github.com/pingcap