Celebrating the TiDB Future App Hackathon 2024

During the recent HTAP Summit, I had the honor of celebrating another successful TiDB Future App Hackathon and announcing our winners. This year, we had close to 2,100 participants–about 40% increase from 2023–joining us from 80+ countries. If you visit the Hackathon project gallery, you will be able to see the winners and all other […]

Dify.AI x TiDB: Build Scalable AI Agent with Knowledge Base

Introduction Building AI Agents can be an intricate affair, but it doesn’t have to be with the right tools. The combination of TiDB’s new Serverless Vector Search, now welcoming users in its Public Beta phase, alongside Dify’s intuitive low-code platform, simplifies the creation of scalable, efficient AI solutions. This guide offers a clear pathway to […]

Announcing the TiDB Future App Hackathon 2024

We’re excited to announce that another edition to TiDB Future App Hackathon will be taking place between July 26 – August 23, 2024! Our first global Hackathon last year was an amazing success with almost 1,500 participants from 87 countries (see the recap blog for more details) and we’re looking forward to an even bigger […]

Inaugural TiDB Docs Dash Recap: Celebrating all Contributors and Winners

When I started at PingCAP back in April 2023, one of the things I started thinking about was a global event where our community members can come together to collaborate. Many open-source communities organize Hackathon-type events where people contribute code, but I wanted to focus on documentation (or docs) for a couple of reasons.  One […]

Why Documentation is Important

Documentation (or “docs”) is such a key part of any open-source software project. If you have good docs, users will find it easy to get started. They’ll also be able to find answers on their own for the majority of questions as they use the software.  Even before I start evaluating technical products or organizations, […]

Introducing Data in the Hallway: A New Podcast Series for Open Source Data Enthusiasts

According to the Forbes article, there are more than two million independent podcasts today. So, it was only natural to ask ourselves: Does it make sense to start yet another podcast? Some of the reasons why we personally like podcasts are that they’re easy to consume, have a more casual format, and there’s a sense […]

Celebrating the Successful TiDB Future App Hackathon 2023

On August 15, we announced the winners of this year’s TiDB FutureApp Hackathon and celebrated the closing of a great community event that kicked off on June 6. During the Hackathon, we had 1,490 participants from 87 countries forming 180 teams and submitting 100 projects. Beyond the quantity, we were extremely impressed with the quality […]

Announcing TiDB FutureApp Hackathon

Announcing TiDB FutureApp Hackathon 2023, a global community event for developers everywhere to collaborate and develop exciting applications on TiDB.

Develop Apps Faster with the Integration of Vercel and TiDB Cloud

TiDB Cloud has been integrated with Vercel. With the integration, building web applications becomes much faster, more streamlined, and more automated.

Painting with a Database

Let’s paint with a database and your imagination.

How to Query Data from TiDB with SQL or Java 

You’ll learn how to query data from a SQL database with SQL and Java respectively.

Building a Web Application with Spring Boot and TiDB

This post shows you how to quickly build an application by leveraging Spring Boot and TiDB.
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