PingCAP’s CEO talks about the philosophy of TiDB’s evolution and how PingCAP built TiDB in the past five years using user feedback along the way.

This article is based on a talk given by Max Liu at PingCAP Infra Meetup.

TiDB is an open source, distributed SQL database started by PingCAP. As the CEO of PingCAP, I’m also TiDB’s principal product manager, with veto power on the important features of our product. Rather than adding more features, my duty at PingCAP is to cut down unnecessary features so that TiDB stays focused yet flexible.

In this post, I will talk about the philosophy behind TiDB’s evolution, and, as a product manager, how I figured out where TiDB would be going and how we finally got there.

TiDB’s Evolution Philosophy

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