TiKV, TiDB and PingCAP, with Ed Huang

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

• Sippee cup
• Tippee cup
• Coffee cup

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
  • Episode 55, with Idit Levine
• 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
  • Episode 116, with Alex Ellis
• Jetstack CNI migration notes by Josh Van Leeuwen

Links from the interview

• Wandou Labs
• Codis clustering for Redis
  • twemproxy
• Spanner and F1 papers from Google Research
• TiDB
• TiKV
• PingCAP
  • CAP theorem
• Local Persistent Volumes in Kubernetes and beta launch blog explaining it
• TiKV’s CNCF journey:
  • Sandbox
  • Incubation
  • PingCAP’s $50m funding round
  • Graduation
• Chaos Mesh
• Wasm and Wasmer
• Dark Side of the Moon
• Ed Huang on Twitter