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I like the idea of supporting multi cloud, not cloud vendor lock-in, but I still doubt providing a tool can solve this. We have been building a DBaaS(database as a service) for man…

IMO, Using AI for image generation is the trend, whether we like it or not. But for me, as a software engineer, I still insist on creating pictures for my own blogs or presentation…

Using map or array instead of switch-case is a common optimization way, but please do a benchmark if you have no confidence whether you need do or not. E.g, it doesn't already work…

I highly recommend "A Philosophy of Software Design", the book teaches me a lot about how to manage complexity in programming.

Disclosure: The maintainer of TiDB here. When we started to build the distributed database TiDB, we had the similar discussion - whether we need to provide a so strong consistence …

yes, `FROM scratch` may be better most of the time. I just use `alphine` for many years, and have not tried `scratch` before.

We build our binary first with one image as the builder image, then use `copy` to copy the binary from the builder to the final executable image like alphine. an example Dockerfile…

As a chief engineer, I started to work with my colleagues to build an open source distributed, relational database from scratch 7 years ago. At that time, MySQL Sharding, or NoSQL …

IMO, multi cloud is the future, just as eggs can’t be in one basket. I’ve been building a distributed database for more than 7 years, and find that many of our customers had been u…

I've been building a distributed database product for more than 7 years, managing a team of nearly 300 R&D staff and serving hundreds of customers. Customer Support is hard for us.…

Very sad to hear this news, but not so unexpected. As a distributed database engineer, we have been working with some universities and exploring the optimization of database on Int…

I also recommend A Philosophy of Software Design, the book taught me a lot about how to manage complexity in programming.