PingCAP DevCon 2021: Foresee the future ecology of data technology

On July 24, the annual top data technology event PingCAP DevCon 2021 hosted by PingCAP was held in Beijing. With the theme of "Open x Connect x Foresight", this DevCon comes from China Everbright Bank, Zheshang Bank, WeBank, Ping An Technology, China Life, Xiaomi, Ideal Auto, Zhongtong Express, Zhihu, 58.com, iQiyi , 360, China Mobile Mobile Cloud, China Telecom Yipay, Digital China, Intel, AWS, Google Cloud, Databricks and many other PingCAP heavyweight customers and partners attended. More than 50 technical experts from all over the world focused on hot topics such as open source, cloud native, data infrastructure, data technology ecology, and digital scenario practice, bringing a technological feast to tens of thousands of online and offline audiences.

PingCAP DevCon is committed to discussing the integration of cutting-edge technology and digital trends, and is known as the vane of observing forward-looking trends in open source industries and databases. PingCAP released version 2.0 of the cloud-native chaos engineering platform Chaos Mesh®️ at the conference; released the Ti-Star plan for enterprise users to help the success of customer journeys through a hybrid ecosystem; TiDB Cloud announced that it will support global multi-regional data synchronization in the third quarter. Provide free TiDB Cloud clusters for individual developers in the fourth quarter. At the same time, PingCAP and China Academy of Information and Communications Technology released the industry's first "Open Source Community Maturity White Paper", and jointly released the "TiDB and Flink-based Real-time Data Warehouse Best Practice White Paper" with the Flink community.

Liu Qi, founder and CEO of PingCAP, stated at the conference that 2020 is a watershed year for databases. "Open source, simplification, and integration" have become a new technology trend, and a new generation of cloud databases has gradually become the mainstream of enterprise applications. A major experience change is taking place in the database market, and it is evolving in a more powerful, smarter, and more worry-free direction. TiDB is also empowering enterprises through an open technology ecosystem and releasing the innovative power of open source.

Qi Liu, Founder and CEO of PingCAP

Huang Dongxu, co-founder and CTO of PingCAP, described the development blueprint of TiDB at the conference, and analyzed TiDB's technological leadership from a technical point of view. "We have been imagining the core capabilities that databases should have in the future, and what PingCAP is doing is turning them into reality one by one." When talking about the fantasy of the ultimate form of the database, he said: “Databases may disappear as independent software with the development of pluggability, scheduling capabilities, cloud native and other technologies in the future, and will become a data platform. The form of service exists."

Huang Dongxu, Co-founder and CTO of PingCAP

Build a viable open ecosystem

The open talent ecology and technology ecology have evolved TiDB into a viable basic software. The open source projects created by PingCAP have a total of more than 41,600 stars and more than 1,400 contributors on GitHub in dozens of countries around the world.

Open source is the starting point of PingCAP and the best path to success in the field of basic software under the current globalization background. Liu Xiangming, co-founder of Titanium Media, He Baohong, Director of the Institute of Cloud Computing and Big Data of China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Chen Yu, partner of Yunqi Capital, and Sun Xiaoguang, Architect of Zhihu Fundamental R&D, in the "Innovative Value of Open Source Ecosystem" roundtable forum From the perspectives of media, industry, capital, and technology, they discussed the innovative value of the open source ecosystem.

PingCAP always believes that real scenarios are the best architects. In the three sub-forums of "Business Agility", "Real-time Insight" and "Innovation Ecology", nearly 50 global industry leaders from China Everbright Bank, Zhongtong Express, Xiaomi, Zheshang Bank, Databricks, etc. gathered together to share how the topics covered Relying on TiDB's large-scale OLTP capabilities to deal with business peaks triggered at any time to ensure business agility, HTAP's practical experience and innovative thinking, the future of cloud native technology, innovative cross-border solutions and other topics.

At the developer carnival the day before the conference, more than 300 developers immersed in their experience of the charm of code through the "5.0 Quick Start", "Tuning Competition", "Hands-on Experiments", "Course Experience" and other links. The PingCAP technical team met the developers face to face during the "Working Conference" and "Tucao Conference" to discuss the development path of TiDB. The developer's carnival will never close!

Create a complete enterprise-level service capability

The digital transformation of enterprises puts forward higher requirements for business agility and timeliness of data. Real-time transaction processing, real-time feedback, real-time insight, and real-time convergence have become a must for all-scenario digitization. TiDB has iterated five major versions in six years, and has continuously improved product reliability, stability, and ease of use. Large-scale OLTP and real-time HTAP have become TiDB's core competitiveness. In April this year, TiDB released version 5.0, a milestone aimed at the enterprise level, and it has been applied in the production environment of dozens of large enterprises.

TiDB has been a new generation of enterprise-level database designed for the digital age from the beginning of its release. This is also the reason why TiDB initially chose to develop products from the digitally native Internet industry. As companies in all walks of life accelerate their digital transformation, the digital native TiDB expertise is precisely the two major directions of the company's digital transformation: business agility improvement and real-time data consumption.

TiDB gives full play to the advantages of cloud-native distributed architecture, supports business agility improvement with agile and highly scalable OLTP, supports real-time data consumption with real-time HTAP, and has accumulated a wealth of infrastructure solutions and applications through practices in various industries Architecture solutions. From infrastructure solutions such as "data migration, business continuity, cloud access, and security" to application solutions such as "real-time data service, real-time risk control, distributed batch, and comprehensive data query", it fully assists enterprises in applying TiDB to achieve business Success, providing a one-stack solution for real-time data insight, real-time analysis, and real-time realization of data for enterprises in digital transformation.

In addition to providing products and solutions for corporate customers, TiDB also provides professional support services and reliable guarantees for corporate customers, so that they can use TiDB more securely, at ease, and smoothly. Today, TiDB products, solutions and services have been used by many corporate customers in the fields of finance, new economy, telecom operators, manufacturing, logistics, retail, public utilities, etc., to promote technological innovation and empower business growth.

Wang Yang, chief engineer of the database team of Ping An Technology, shared the open source innovation road of Ping An Technology at the conference: from supporting property insurance promotion activities, to launching Ping An Life’s gold butler, to serving various business scenarios of different subsidiaries, TiDB established Ping An Technology and As a connecting bridge for the open source community, Ping An Technology has successively participated in open source projects such as TiDB and Chaos Mesh®️. While applying the results to business innovation, it also contributes the results to the global open source community, and continues to promote the progress of database technology.

Shen Yang, CIO of Digital China, believes that open source technology is leading the development of the entire information technology industry. Digital China and PingCAP have established a long-term ecological linkage. In addition to launching TiDB and Digital China distributed database all-in-one, and landing end-to-end industry solutions, The technical team of Digital China has deeply participated in the open source community and developed TiDB for PostgreSQL, achieving new breakthroughs in open source technology and service solutions.

Connect the global scene and the cloud world

Through TiDB, connecting scenes, connecting the world, and connecting to the cloud is PingCAP's long-term internationalization strategy. Shen Li, head of PingCAP's international business, said: "After being polished by the extreme scenarios of Chinese Internet companies and corporate users, TiDB seamlessly connects to overseas users to help users solve large-scale data processing, risk control, real-time decision-making, and data middle-office services. Needs, these are all connected through scenarios and communities."

Regarding the challenge of how to efficiently deliver the value demand of TiDB from global users, PingCAP chose to launch TiDB Cloud products in overseas regions, and put the value of TiDB in the hands of every developer in the world, allowing users to enjoy the scale of OLTP anywhere and at any scale. And Real-Time HTAP capabilities.

In terms of international services, PingCAP has greatly increased its local teams in North America, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Europe in order to better serve local users. Whether it is a globalized customer or a Chinese user going overseas, TiDB will provide them with valuable services. At this conference, there are also many overseas users from Databricks, Ninja Van, Pinterest, Singapore Ministry of Health, NetStars Co., Ltd. and other overseas users to share stories about TiDB's help to upgrade their business.

PingCAP looks forward to working with every developer to inspire unlimited creativity with an open ecosystem and jointly create a prosperous open source future.