Luan Xiaofan, partner of Zilliz: For me, The Apache Way is altruism

The Apache Way to me is altruism

———Luan Xiaofan

ApacheCon is the official global series of conferences of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). As a prestigious open source feast, ApacheCon has attracted much attention in the open source community and is also one of the well-known activities in the early days of the open source movement.

As early as 1998, before the establishment of ASF, ApacheCon had attracted participants at all levels to explore "tomorrow's technology" in more than 300 Apache projects and their different communities. Also in this session, developers who developed HTTPD services gathered together and decided to establish the Apache Software Foundation.

ApacheCon is held once a year, usually in Europe or North America. It is an excellent opportunity for Apache developers to communicate, discuss, and meet offline, as well as a rare occasion for sharing ideas and exciting ideas. Through hands-on practice, keynote speeches, actual case studies, training, hackathons, etc., showcase the latest development and emerging innovations of the Apache project.

This year, in order to better serve the rapidly growing Apache users and contributors in the Asia-Pacific region, the first ApacheCon online conference for the Asia-Pacific time zone, the ApacheCon Asia conference, was held online from August 6 to 8, 2021.

In order to let everyone know more about open source and ApacheCon Asia, SegmentFault will interview some Track Chairs or conference lecturers to let you know the stories behind the preparations for the conference and the stories of these experts.

Today, what we bring to you is our interview with Luan Xiaofan, a partner of Zilliz.

The following is the content of the interview with Luan Xiaofan by SegmentFault Sifei:

About Luan Xiaofan

Luan Xiaofan, partner and engineering director of Zilliz, member of technical advisory committee of LF AI & Data Foundation. He has worked in Oracle's US headquarters, software-defined storage startup Hedvig, and the Alibaba Cloud database team. He was responsible for the research and development of Alibaba Cloud's open source HBase and the self-developed NoSQL database Lindorm. Luan Xiaofan holds a master's degree in computer engineering from Cornell University.

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The story of Luan Xiaofan’s first exposure to open source

Joined a software-defined storage Hedvig in 2015. The founder of the company is Avinash Lakishman, the author of Apache Cassandra. The company used very early cassandra code. At that time, it was discovered that there was a bug in the gossiper module that would cause the information synchronization to be slow, so the feedback was fixed. To the cassandra community. Later in Ali, I also engaged in HBase development work for a long time, and have been following the development of Apache Hbase and HDFS communities.

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When participating in open source and contributing to the Apache community, what are the personal and company gains?

For individuals, it has increased technical aesthetics and made like-minded friends. For Zilliz, open source is an important way for us to rapidly iterate products. We also hope that through our technology, we can help more users solve the challenges of unstructured data and expand our technical influence.

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Luan Xiaofan understands "The Apache Way"?

The apache way to me is altruism, calling for companies and individuals with this spirit to help others. In addition to providing usable products, this kind of help also includes helping others grow through code reviews and other methods. We have always followed the principle of Community over code and made products better through community collaboration.

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Luan Xiaofan and ApacheCon Asia

The Track I am on this time is A Vector Database for Unstructured Data Processing, which includes: what Vector Database, what problems can help us solve, the design practice and design principles of Milvus 2.0, and common scenarios. I hope that after listening to my sharing, you can understand what a vector database is and the problems it can solve, as well as the design principles behind cloud-native databases.

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About Milvus / Zilliz

Milvus is the world's leading open source vector database system. MIlvus was open sourced in October 2019, and formally passed a technical committee vote in March 2020, and successfully joined LF AI & Data (Linux AI Foundation) as an incubation project. The Milvus project is booming and is widely used in image retrieval, video content analysis, Internet search, recommendation systems, virtual assistants, intelligent customer service, network security, virtual compound screening and gene sequence analysis and other fields. It has more than 1,000 companies worldwide user. In June 2021, Milvus passed the review and vote of the technical committee and became a graduation project of the LF AI & Data Foundation.

Zilliz is an open source basic software company that focuses on the development of unstructured database systems and provides data infrastructure for various AI applications. In November 2020, Zilliz completed a US$43 million Series B financing, setting a record for the largest single round B financing in the global open source basic software field.

Zilliz's recruitment email: [e-mail], long-term recruitment of C++/Go developers, database development engineers, AI algorithm engineers, data engineers, high-performance computing engineers, developer relationship managers and other positions.

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ApacheCon Asia full agenda address:
https://www.apachecon.com/acasia2021/zh/sessions.html

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