Ten Years Building Tidb
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The author reflects on their 10-year journey building TiDB, a distributed database, sharing insights and experiences gained along the way, with the community responding with a mix of appreciation and curiosity.
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ottoke
3 months ago
TiDB has come a long way in 10 years! Most large (open source) MySQL systems today running either TiDB or Vitess, and many cloud providers seem to be copying TiDB's architecture in their new products.
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