Ed Huang is the co-founder and CTO of PingCAP, a distributed system expert, a senior software engineer, and an architect who has worked at Microsoft Research Asia, NetEase Youdao and WandouLabs. He is an active open source enthusiast and open source software author, whose representative work includes Codis, a distributed Redis caching solution, and TiDB, a distributed relational database. At present, the TiDB project has accumulated more than 29000+ stars on GitHub, making it one of the world's top open source projects in this field.
He is one of the "Top 10 Outstanding Contributors to Open Source in China in 2020", one of the "33 Pioneers of Open Source in China in 2020" and one of the "OSCAR Open Source Vanguards". His first-author paper, TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database, is the first paper in the industry on the Raft-based implementation of a real-time HTAP distributed database.
The Next Revolution From On-Premises Databases to DBaaS
We used to take it for granted that databases should run on hardware. However, this assumption is changing profoundly these days, and that perception will continue to change. Next-generation database engineers will ...
