Ed Huang is co-founder and CTO of PingCAP, creators of the TiDB distributed database and the TiKV key value store. Ed worked on clustering Redis while at Wandou Labs, creating and open-sourcing a tool called Codis. Deciding to focus on this space, he created TiDB and then TiKV, and founded PingCAP. He shares the story behind the projects, bridging the gap between China and the West with open source, and his Desert Island Disc.

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Links from the interview

Wandou Labs
Codis clustering for Redis
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Spanner and F1 papers from Google Research
TiDB
TiKV
PingCAP
- CAP theorem
Local Persistent Volumes in Kubernetes and beta launch blog explaining it
TiKV’s CNCF journey:
Chaos Mesh
Wasm and Wasmer
Dark Side of the Moon
Ed Huang on Twitter

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