Online Children’s English head brand “PingCAP” and the new distributed database company “PingCAP” reached a deep strategic cooperation, the two sides will carry out long-term cooperation in products, technology and talent training, give full play to and share their respective advantages. Jointly promote the optimization of companion fish service experience and the development of TiDB community user ecology.
PingCAP and Pingfish became connected four years ago, and witnessed the rapid development of both sides during the whole process from attention to use of TiDB. Banyu will share their use of TiDB with the technical community to let more people know about TiDB. TiDB technical team also provides 7 X 24 hours online technical support and irregular offline technical communication for fish. PingCAP co-founder and CTO Huang Dongxu is very grateful for PingCAP’s contribution to TiDB’s ecological construction.
As for the close cooperation with PingCAP in various aspects, Wang Qiang, CTO of PingCAP, said that PingCAP is a company with ideal technology and encourages engineers to participate in the open source community and do things with technical feelings. This time, the two sides will carry out further cooperation in Talent training. Based on TiDB Talent Challenge Program, Panyu will recruit outstanding college interns in TiDB community to participate in the development of open source projects, cultivate professional R&D talents, and serve as a reserve for the Talent team of Fish.
In 2020, Banyu has developed into the leading enterprise of online Children’s English track. From December last year to August this year, the number of its users has jumped from 20 million to 40 million, and the number of paying users has jumped from 500,000 to 1.6 million. The rapid development of the four product lines has brought about an explosive growth in the amount of data and the concurrent amount of one-to-one online classes. In addition to the large demand for professionals, Panyu also has more stringent requirements on the overall response speed and stability of the system, especially the key infrastructure of database.
TiDB, as a distributed relational database developed by PingCAP, has such core features as distributed strong consistent transactions, online elastic horizontal expansion, high availability of fault self-recovery, cross-data center multi-activity and so on. It is an ideal database solution in the era of big data and provides a very strong boost to the rapid development of PingCAP.
At the signing ceremony, Huang Dongxu said that with the conclusion of this strategic cooperation, the two sides will further establish a long-term and stable in-depth cooperative relationship, assist each other in relevant superior resources and technologies, innovate together and explore more industry possibilities.
It is understood that the cooperation between the two sides in terms of product and technology mainly focuses on the joint development of TiDB database and ecological construction of open source community. Specifically, the two parties will jointly develop software needed for TiDB ecology, such as database governance, operation and maintenance and other peripheral tools. Meanwhile, panyu technical team will participate in TiDB performance and execution plan optimization related research and development. This means that the data security of Banyu is more guaranteed, and the user experience can be further optimized at the level of intelligent data processing and real-time service.
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