Data in the Hallway
A podcast series where we discuss community, database, open source, and other topics.
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Episodes
67 episodes
How Twintag federates TiDB with Apache DataFusion
In Episode 65, Michiel De Backker (CTO of Twintag ) explains how his company uses Apache DataFusion to federate multiple databases including TiDB to support digital product passports. Michiel's presentation at FOSDEM: htt...
Bling's Journey to TiDB
In Episode 63, we sit down with Cassio Perin and Everton Silva from Bling to discuss their migration journey to TiDB and their contributions to the TiDB community. Bling's migration journ...
Using TiDB during an AI Hackathon in Malaysia
In this episode 62, we talk with three representatives of the "Best Use of TiDB" winning teams (Redzwan Latif, Yi Cheng, and Chun Rong Lim) from the Cursor x Anthropic Hackathon Malaysia. We discuss their projects, their impression of TiDB, and...
TiDB at CrowdSnapAI
In Episode 61, we talk to Hasitha Ariyarantha (Founder at CrowdSnapAI ) and discuss his experience with TiDB and how his team is building a new analytics tool with features like TiDB Vector Search. 2024 TiDB Hackathon project ...
Why is FOSDEM Different?
In this episode, we talk to Charles Eckel (Principal Engineer at Cisco) and Ildiko Vancsa (Director of Community at OpenInfra Foundation) to discuss FOSDEM including tips for people attending the event for the first time and how everyone can co...
Zero Downtime Rolling Upgrades with TiDB
In Episode 59, we sit down with Ben Sherrill and talk about Zero-Downtime Upgrades in TiDB. Ben discusses why Zero-Downtime Upgrades are possible in TiDB and shares some tips for users to ensure smooth upgrades. Blog po...
Retro-computing: Lessons from Vintage Tech
In this episode, we talk to Mark Price (Co-founder of NetActuate) about restoring old hardware and what we lessons we can learn from working with old equipments. Serial Port YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@theserialpo...
Computer Science in the Age of AI
In this episode, we talk to Andy Pavlo from Carnegie Mellon University about his database classes and research. We then talk about how AI is impacting Computer Science education. Andy Pavlo faculty page: https://www.cs.cmu.edu...
Choosing your (first) database
In this episode, we sit down with Arnaud Adant (Database Team Lead at Jump Trading Group) to discuss key factors to consider when people are selecting their database(s). Clickhouse sink connector repo: https://github.com/Altini...
Celebrating TiDB AgentX Hackathon Winners
In this espisode, we talk to two winners of the TiDB AgentX Hackathon Aishwarya Nathani & Nikhil Mankani. We discuss the inspiration for their PetFitAI project and how they built their application with TiDB's AI features. P...
Open Source in Climate & Environmental Movement
In this episode, we sit down with Shannon Dosemagen of the Open Environmental Data Project to discuss the importance of openness and transparency in her Climate & Environmental Movement workShannon's keynote at the Open Source S...
Is TiDB always the right database for MySQL users?
In this episode, we sit down with Airton Lastori (Product Manager for TiDB ) to discuss how MySQL users can evaluate if TiDB is the right database for them and tools that are available to help with their migration.* MySQL BR Conf: https...
Guide to Open Source Databases
In this episode, we talk to Matthew Penaroza (Principal Solutions Engineer for TiDB) about different databases, their use cases, and Open Source options. TiDB Documentation (incl. integrations with other databases and too...
DBeaver and TiDB
In this episode, we sit down with David Stokes (Community Manager at DBeaver ) to discuss DBeaver and their support for TiDB. DBeaver Community: https://dbeaver.io/Connect to TiDB with DBeaver: https://docs.ping...
All about the TiDB AgentX Hackathon
We welcomeChris Dabatos (DevRel Manager for TiDB) to this episode to discuss this year's Hackathon called the TiDB AgentX Hackathon with more than $US 30,000 in prizes. Hackathon event page: https://tidb-2025-hackathon.devpost....
The backbone of RAG is structured data
We welcome back Sam Dillard to this episode and discuss RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and how TiDB can support developers working on RAG-based applications. Ask anything about #tidb at https://tidb.ai/ TiDB...
Talking Hyper (Hybrid Physical Design Advisor)
In this episode, we welcome back Ahmad Ghazal (Distinguished Engineer at PingCAP) to discuss recently published IEEE paper on Hyper (Hybrid Physical Design Advisor).
TiDB's success in India
In this episode, we sit down with Kabilesh P.R. (Founding Partner at Mydbops) to discuss what's driving the rapid growth of TiDB in India today. Kabilesh also shares examples of TiDB users in the country. Why Flipkart chose TiD...
Celebrating Ten Years of TiDB with a Hackathon
In this episode, we talk to two of the winners of the internal hackathon to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of TiDB. Terry Purcell (Chief Optimizer Architect) tells us about his team's project improve the Query Optimizer Cost Model in TiDB, a...
How TiDB addresses today's challenges in FinTech
In this episode, Loc Trinh (Head of Solutions Architecture at @PingCAP ) talks about where the #fintech industry is today and how #tidb is helping address these cha...
Optimizing Online DDL for TiDB
Mattias Jonsson (Sr. Database Engineer at PingCAP ) joins us in this episode to talk about how the TiDB team worked to optimize Online DDL and what types of results we're seeing. TiDB DDL optimizations blog post: https://www.pi...