Data in the Hallway
Episodes
Retro-computing: Lessons from Vintage Tech
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedS...
Computer Science in the Age of AI
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedS...
Choosing your (first) database
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Arnaud Adant (Database Team Lead at Jump Trading Group) to discuss key factors to consider when people are selecting...
Celebrating TiDB AgentX Hackathon Winners
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this espisode, we talk to two winners of the TiDB AgentX Hackathon Aishwarya Nathani & Nikhil Mankani. We discuss the inspiration for their Pet...
Open Source in Climate & Environmental Movement
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Shannon Dosemagen of the Open Environmental Data Project to discuss the importance of openness and transparency in h...
Is TiDB always the right database for MySQL users?
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Airton Lastori (Product Manager for TiDB ) to discuss how MySQL users can evaluate if TiDB is the right database for...
Guide to Open Source Databases
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Matthew Penaroza (Principal Solutions Engineer for TiDB) about different databases, their use cases, and Open Source optio...
DBeaver and TiDB
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with David Stokes (Community Manager at DBeaver ) to discuss DBeaver and their support for TiDB. DBeaver Community: h...
All about the TiDB AgentX Hackathon
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We welcomeChris Dabatos (DevRel Manager for TiDB) to this episode to discuss this year's Hackathon called the TiDB AgentX Hackathon with more tha...
The backbone of RAG is structured data
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We welcome back Sam Dillard to this episode and discuss RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and how TiDB can support developers working on RAG-based ...
Talking Hyper (Hybrid Physical Design Advisor)
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we welcome back Ahmad Ghazal (Distinguished Engineer at PingCAP) to discuss recently published IEEE paper on Hyper (Hybrid Physical D...
TiDB's success in India
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Kabilesh P.R. (Founding Partner at Mydbops) to discuss what's driving the rapid growth of TiDB in India today. ...
Celebrating Ten Years of TiDB with a Hackathon
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to two of the winners of the internal hackathon to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of TiDB. Terry Purcell (Chief Optimizer ...
How TiDB addresses today's challenges in FinTech
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Loc Trinh (Head of Solutions Architecture at @PingCAP ) talks about where the #fintech industry is today and how #tidb is helping a...
Optimizing Online DDL for TiDB
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mattias Jonsson (Sr. Database Engineer at PingCAP ) joins us in this episode to talk about how the TiDB team worked to optimize Online DDL and what ty...
Migrating 3 Billion rows to TiDB
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedS...
Highlights of the TiDB 8.5 Release
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Ben Meadowcroft (Product Lead for TiDB Core) about the latest Long-term Support (LTS) release TiDB 8.5 and discussed highl...
We don't need no (old school) education
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedS...
TiDB Replication and Upgrades at Bolt
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Leandro Morgado (Sr. DBRE at Bolt) to discuss Bolt's journey to TiDB and their experience with data replication and #...
A History of SQL
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Markus Winand (a SQL Renaissance Ambassador) about #sql, its evolution and some of the misconceptions that people have. ...
Are you outgrowing your database?
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Mark Donsky (Product Lead at PingCAP) to discuss some of the telltale signs that you maybe outgrowing your database and ho...
Why do we need a separate definition of Open Source for AI?
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sat down with Stefano Maffulli (Executive Director of Open Source Initiative) to discuss why we need a separate definition of Open...
Building Gen AI Applications
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Chenhe Gu (Head of DevRel at Dify) and discuss Gen AI and how Dify can help developers build AI applications. Dify websi...
Re-licensing, forks, and community impact
24 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Dawn Foster (Director of Data Science at the CHAOSS Project) on re-licensing of major #opensource projects over the past d...
Optimizing your Kafka environment with Superstream
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Yaniv Ben Hemo (Co-founder and CEO of Superstream) to discuss how his company got started and how they're helping opt...
A conversation with TiDB Future App Hackathon winners from Indonesia
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to two winning team members from the TiDB Future App Hackathon 2024. They are Ahmad Nurfadilah who worked on the Zapfeed proj...
Database design and modeling with PostgreSQL and MySQL
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Alkin Tezuysal (Director of Services at Altinity) and Ibrar Ahmed (a Principal Engineer at pgEdge) about their recent ...
Operational Data Store with TiDB
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Brian Foster (Director of Content Marketing at PingCAP) about the recent InfoWorld article titled "Operational Data S...
Migration Playbook
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Streaming Data & HTAP?
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
https://datastreaming-summit.org/https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/ticdc-sink-to-pulsar————————— About PingCAP and TiDB ———...
What happens as we Scale?
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we welcome back Sam Dillard to discuss Scalability considerations for database systems. If you have any feedback or suggestions for ...
TiDB Future App Hackathon (featuring TiDB Vector Search)
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sat down with Xin Shi (Product Manager for TiDB Serverless) and Matthew Penaroza (PingCAP's Solution Engineer) to provide upd...
Citizen Science
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss Citizen Science with Laura Trouille and Zach Wolfenbarger at Adler Planetarium. We discussed citizen science projects at Z...
Distributed eXecution Framework (DXF)
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we welcome back Sunny Bains to talk about TiDB Distributed eXecution Framework (DXF) and how the feature can help meet users' ex...
First Anniversary Episode
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 episod...
Coroot: an open source observability platform for database users
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Nikolay Sivko and Peter Zaitsev about their open source observability platform Coroot. We discuss Coroot's journey ...
Developing Software for Serverless
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 co...
Bringing Vector Search to TiDB
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sat down with Xin Shi (Product Manager for TiDB Serverless) to discuss the new #vectorsearch capability in TiDB Serverless and pla...
Addressing digital accessibility challenges for everyone
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss an important issue of #digitalaccessibility with Emma Dawson, a software developer at @Futurice-Official and who's ...
TiDB Query Optimizers
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk about database & query optimization with Terry Purcell, who recently joined PingCAP as a Principal Optimizer Architect. ...
The Cloud Native landscape in the age of AI
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chris Aniszczyk and Ed Huang discuss motivations for contributing open source projects to foundations, how AI is impacting cloud nati...
All about SCaLE (Southern California Linux Expo)
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ilan Rabinovitch joins us to talk about the history of @socallinuxexpo (Southern California Linux Expo) including the early days of ...
How TiAdvisor addresses challenges with database indices
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ahmad Ghazal (Distinguished Engineer at PingCAP) returns to Data in the Hallway and to discuss #database indices, why they're im...
More than 20 years of conversation with database users
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Nabil Nawaz (Principal Solutions Engineer from PingCAP) shares his experience from more than two decades of work with database custom...
What are LLMs (Large Language Models) and how do you build them?
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Where is open source today?
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Helping developers with cloud cost optimization
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Stephen J. Barr (Principal Architect & Technical Evangelist at CloudFix) about how developers can get a better underst...
Why is documentation important and how can we make it better?
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Mike Jang (Lead Technical Writer at Forescout Technologies) about his philosophy on what makes a good documentation and ho...
Book club discussion: High Performance Data Architectures report
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Brian Foster (Director of Content Marketing at PingCAP) about the O’Reilly Report titled High-Performance Data Architect...
From database to backend as a service, how Data Service can help.
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Arun Vijayraghavan (Principal Product Manager at PingCAP) about the TiDB Cloud Data Service, including its benefits, targe...
Helping farmers in sub-saharan Africa with TiDB Serverless
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Festus Idowu and Victor Olufemi about their TiDB FutureApp Hackathon project Argobotfarms to help farmers in sub-saharan A...
Getting the most out of events: for both organizers & attendees
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 de...
How can we ensure our database applications work and scale?
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Adam Furmanek (Head of DevRel at Metis: https://www.metisdata.io/) about what database developers can do to ensure their a...
Walking the tight rope: How to product manage open source databases
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss being a product manager at an open source company with our guest Sam Dillard (Principal Product Manager at PingCAP). Sam t...
There are lies, damn lies, and Benchmarks
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss database benchmarking with our guest Ahmad Ghazal (Distinguished Engineer at PingCAP). Ahmad talks about the limitation of...
The birth of OSS Insight
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss with our guest Fan Wang how OSS Insight got started. Fan discusses how OSS Insight continues PingCAP's tradition ...
Open source community metrics
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss with our guest Matt Germonprez (Professor at University of Nebraska-Omaha) the history of academic research on open source...
How Hackathons can help developers
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss with our guest Rajendra Kadam (Sr. Backend Engineer at GitLab) his prior experience with Hackathons and how they can hel...
The ongoing popularity of MySQL
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss with our guest Sunny Bains how MySQL is still very popular today. We talk about the community and some of the key features...
Series Kickoff
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this launch episode of the new podcast series, Data in the Hallway, series co-hosts Brian Foster, Daniel van Eeden, and Ray Paik discuss the goals ...