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Early Impressions of Go From a Rust Programmer

Go vs. Rust — I’ve been using Go for the past few weeks. It’s my first time using Go for a large(-ish), serious project. I’ve previously looked at Go a lot, and I’ve played with examples and toy programs when researching features for Rust. Real programming is a very different experience. I thought it…

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Early Impressions of Go From a Rust Programmer

3 days ago

A brief history of database and evolution of next-gen Database

A history of Databases It is rare for any technology to exist for more than 50 years in a rapidly changing IT industry. Databases have a longevity that is an anomaly, as other technologies come and go with the times. If we look back at the history of databases, we can distinguish five stages: …

Database

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May 15

Long Live MySQL: Kudos to the Ecosystem Innovators

Author: Ed Huang (Co-Founder & CTO at PingCAP) This post is the second part in our series. You can find the first part here: Long Live MySQL: Good Old MySQL Should Be Rejuvenated. I am a firm believer in MySQL and its ecosystem. As I said in my previous article…

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Long Live MySQL: Kudos to the Ecosystem Innovators

May 13

Long Live MySQL: Good Old MySQL Should Be Rejuvenated

Author: Ed Huang (Co-Founder & CTO at PingCAP) This post is the first part in our series. You can see the second part here: Long Live MySQL: Kudos to the Ecosystem Innovators. Imagine you’re an application developer, and your manager tells you to prototype a new application in a week…

My SQL

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May 5

Explore Deep in 4.6 Billion GitHub Events

4.6 billion is literally an astronomical figure. The richest star map of our galaxy, brought by Gaia space observatory, includes just under 2 billion stars. What does a view of 4.6 billion GitHub events really look like? …

Opensource

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Explore Deep in 4.6 Billion GitHub Events

Apr 2

Reducing P99 Latency to 150 μs and Hardware Cost by 75% with a Scale-Out DBMS

How TiKV outperforms AWS Aurora and Pache Ignite. — Written by Yunsong Liu (DBA at Tuya Smart) Tuya Smart is a global Internet of Things (IoT) development platform. It builds interconnectivity standards to bridge the intelligent needs of brands, original equipment manufacturers, developers, and retail chains across a broad range of smart devices and industries. By the end of…

Tikv

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Reducing P99 Latency to 150 μs and Hardware Cost by 75% with a Scale-Out DBMS

Mar 24

Go Entity Framework Ent Announces Preview Support for TiDB

Hello World with Ent and TiDB! — Written by Amit Shani (Ent Engineer) Ent’s latest version now has preview support for TiDB with a new migration engine Atlas enabled. Ent Ent is an entity framework for Go that makes developing large applications a breeze. It was open-sourced in late 2019 and officially joined the Linux Foundation in September…

Tutorial

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Go Entity Framework Ent Announces Preview Support for TiDB

Mar 23

How TiDB Improves Opera’s Ads Business

How TiDB distributed SQL has helped Opera Ads to solve challenges with the Data Management Platform (DMP). — Opera, headquartered in Oslo and listed on NASDAQ, is a global web innovator with an engaged and growing base of hundreds of millions of monthly active users who seek a better internet experience. …

Database

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Mar 3

Build a Real-time Analytics Application with TiDB Cloud

In this tutorial, you will build a prototype for PingExpress_DemoCorp’s real-time analytics dashboard that runs on a TiDB Cloud Proof-of-Concept (PoC) cluster. — Written by Chenhao Huang (Developer Relations Specialist at PingCAP) and Phoebe He (Technical Content Manager)

Tidb

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Build a Real-time Analytics Application with TiDB Cloud

In this tutorial, you will build a prototype for PingExpress_DemoCorp’s real-time analytics dashboard that runs on a TiDB Cloud Proof-of-Concept (PoC) cluster.

Written by Chenhao Huang (Developer Relations Specialist at PingCAP) and Phoebe He (Technical Content Manager)

Mar 3

Evaluating TiDB against the MySQL Test Suite

Can we use the history of discovered bugs in MySQL to improve the quality of TiDB? — Written by Morgan Tocker (SQL Engine Team at PingCAP) There is an old saying that history has a tendency to repeat itself, and I have software proof of that. For those not yet familiar, TiDB is a distributed SQL database that is compatible with MySQL. …

Tidb

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