Data in the Hallway
A podcast series where we discuss community, database, open source, and other topics.
Email us at podcast@pingcap.com for your feedback or suggestions.
Episodes
33 episodes since 2023
Operational Data Store with TiDB
In this episode, we talk to Brian Foster (Director of Content Marketing at PingCAP) about the recent InfoWorld article titled "Operational Data Store with TiDB." We discuss our engagement with the periodical, what an Operational Data Store is, ...
September 17, 2024
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Episode 31
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28:44
Migration Playbook
In this episode, we sit down with Brain Walters (Head of Solution Engineering at PingCAP ) and Kyle Cao (Solution Engineer at PingCAP) to discuss the Database Migration Playbook their team has been developing. HTAP Sum...
August 28, 2024
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Episode 30
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31:08
Streaming Data & HTAP?
https://datastreaming-summit.org/https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/ticdc-sink-to-pulsar
August 14, 2024
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Episode 29
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33:38
What happens as we Scale?
In this episode, we welcome back Sam Dillard to discuss Scalability considerations for database systems. If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at podcast@pingcap.com.
July 30, 2024
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Episode 28
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31:09
TiDB Future App Hackathon (featuring TiDB Vector Search)
In this episode, we sat down with Xin Shi (Product Manager for TiDB Serverless) and Matthew Penaroza (PingCAP's Solution Engineer) to provide updates on TiDB #vectorsearch since episode 22 and discuss use case/project ideas for the upcoming in ...
July 10, 2024
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Episode 27
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25:39
Citizen Science
In this episode, we discuss Citizen Science with Laura Trouille and Zach Wolfenbarger at Adler Planetarium. We discussed citizen science projects at Zooniverse and how anyone can contribute to projects. Zooniverse website:: htt...
June 25, 2024
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Episode 26
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29:54
Distributed eXecution Framework (DXF)
In this episode, we welcome back Sunny Bains to talk about TiDB Distributed eXecution Framework (DXF) and how the feature can help meet users' expectations for resource usage as they scale. DXF documentation: https://docs.pingc...
June 11, 2024
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Episode 25
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28:24
First Anniversary Episode
In this bonus episode, we celebrate the first year of our podcast series and look ahead to Year 2. If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at podcast@pingcap.com.
June 11, 2024
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14:48
Coroot: an open source observability platform for database users
In this episode, we talk to Nikolay Sivko and Peter Zaitsev about their open source observability platform Coroot. We discuss Coroot's journey over the past two years and use cases for distributed database users. Coroot w...
May 21, 2024
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Episode 24
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32:33
Developing Software for Serverless
In this episode, we talk to Yan Cui (founder of THEBURNINGMONK) about how Serverless has emerged over the past decade and what developers need to consider as they develop applications for Serverless. TiDB Serverless: http...
May 07, 2024
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Episode 23
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36:56
Bringing Vector Search to TiDB
In this episode, we sat down with Xin Shi (Product Manager for TiDB Serverless) to discuss the new #vectorsearch capability in TiDB Serverless and plans to help users develop #AI applications. TiDB Vector Search page (incl. pri...
April 23, 2024
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Episode 22
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35:05
Addressing digital accessibility challenges for everyone
In this episode, we discuss an important issue of #digitalaccessibility with Emma Dawson, a software developer at @Futurice-Official and who's been working to make ...
April 09, 2024
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Episode 21
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23:48
TiDB Query Optimizers
In this episode, we talk about database & query optimization with Terry Purcell, who recently joined PingCAP as a Principal Optimizer Architect. * TiDB SQL Optimization Process: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/sql-optimiza...
March 25, 2024
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Episode 20
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34:58
The Cloud Native landscape in the age of AI
In this episode, Chris Aniszczyk and Ed Huang discuss motivations for contributing open source projects to foundations, how AI is impacting cloud native and database, outlook on open source, and KubeCon. To...
March 06, 2024
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Episode 19
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40:33
All about SCaLE (Southern California Linux Expo)
In this episode, Ilan Rabinovitch joins us to talk about the history of @socallinuxexpo (Southern California Linux Expo) including the early days of the event, how it evolved since 2002, and advice he has for people who may be attendin...
February 26, 2024
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Episode 18
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34:11
How TiAdvisor addresses challenges with database indices
In this episode, Ahmad Ghazal (Distinguished Engineer at PingCAP) returns to Data in the Hallway and to discuss #database indices, why they're important, and how TiAdvisor automates #index discovery to enhance user workload performance.
February 14, 2024
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Episode 17
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26:46
More than 20 years of conversation with database users
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 softwa...
January 29, 2024
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Episode 16
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33:06
What are LLMs (Large Language Models) and how do you build them?
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 ...
January 10, 2024
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Episode 15
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41:03
Where is open source today?
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...
December 13, 2023
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Episode 14
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38:03
Helping developers with cloud cost optimization
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.
November 29, 2023
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Episode 13
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34:06
Why is documentation important and how can we make it better?
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 commun...
November 10, 2023
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Episode 12
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29:55
Book club discussion: High Performance Data Architectures report
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 fr...
October 25, 2023
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Episode 11
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31:55
From database to backend as a service, how Data Service can help.
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 pag...
October 11, 2023
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Episode 10
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32:59
Helping farmers in sub-saharan Africa with TiDB Serverless
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 variou...
September 25, 2023
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Episode 9
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33:57
Getting the most out of events: for both organizers & attendees
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 ...
September 13, 2023
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Episode 8
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39:43