How We Reduced Multi-region Read Latency and Network Traffic by 50%
High read latency and network traffic are common issues for a multi-region architecture. At TiDB Hackathon 2019, a team won 2nd place by reducing multi-region read latency and network traffic by 50%. Read this post to learn how they did it.
The Rust Compilation Model Calamity
In this first episode of the Rust Compile time series, Brian Anderson, one of Rust's original authors, shares with you his researches and experiences with Rust compile times, using the TiKV project as a case study.
AutoTiKV: TiKV Tuning Made Easy by Machine Learning
AutoTiKV is a machine-learning-based tuning tool that helps decrease tuning costs and make life easier for DBAs. This post shows AutoTiKV's design, its machine learning model, and the automatic tuning workflow.
Squashed Bugs, Served Hot and Fresh with Failure Rate Heatmaps
At TiDB Hackathon 2019, a team won the third prize by building a bot that helps quickly locate bugs in the code. Read this post to get more details.
Building a Large-scale Distributed Storage System Based on Raft
This post introduces the PingCAP team's firsthand experience in designing a large-scale distributed storage system based on the Raft consensus algorithm.
How We Compiled a Golang Database in the Browser Using WebAssembly
We compiled a Golang database (TiDB) into an in-browser database using WebAssembly (Wasm). This post introduces why and how we built an in-browser database.
How TSQ Becomes a Performance Bottleneck for TiKV in AWS ARM Environment
Explore into Linux kernel to find out how TSQ becomes a performance bottleneck for TiKV in an AWS ARM environment.
Porting TiDB to Arm64 for Greater Flexibility
This article describes how PingCAP compiled and benchmarked TiDB on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Arm64 platform.
Migrating the TiKV Rust Client from Futures 0.1 to 0.3
This post introduces Nick's experience in migrating the TiKV Rust client from Futures 0.1 to 0.3.
Why Benchmarking Distributed Databases Is So Hard
Benchmarks are hard to get right, and many articles touting benchmarks are actually benchmarketing, showcasing skewed outcomes to sell products. This post introduces some of the motivations for benchmarking and the common tools, and discusses a few things to keep in mind when benchmarking.
The KOST Stack: An Open-Source Cloud-Native Hybrid Database Stack
A new infrastructure pattern is emerging called the KOST stack (Kubernetes, Operator, Spark, TiDB). This blog post introduces each component of the KOST stack and cloud-native HTAP in the wild.
TiDB Passes Jepsen Test for Snapshot Isolation and Single-Key Linearizability
TiDB's first official Jepsen Test report is published. This post introduces some additional context to the test results and PingCAP's thoughts on what's next.