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This topic has been translated from a Chinese forum by GPT and might contain errors.Original topic: 选对了产品就选对了成功的路，论我选tidb和选股票
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username: tidb狂热爱好者
[TiDB Usage Environment] Production Environment / Testing / Poc
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[Reproduction Path] What operations were performed that caused the issue
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[Resource Configuration] Enter TiDB Dashboard - Cluster Info - Hosts and take a screenshot of this page
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I’ve been writing articles lately, but I only write articles that should be helpful to everyone. I won’t write articles that aren’t helpful, and I try to update daily.
Why do I say that choosing the right product is choosing the path to success?
I personally believe that personal development is closely related to the era’s background. A good era can help people progress, making work and life smooth, and choosing a good career in a good era is highly beneficial to individuals.
My database mentor, Tang Cheng, is such a lucky person. After graduating from university, he was assigned to the Xinjiang Post and Telecommunications Bureau. At that time, when the salary was only five or six hundred, he passed the Oracle certification exam, which cost more than 3,000 yuan, and started working with Oracle at Huawei and Alibaba. He happened to experience the era’s dividends in the telecommunications and e-commerce industries.
In the post-Alibaba era, Alibaba was moving away from Oracle, and his company sent them to maintain the existing Oracle business. However, the company was also organizing employees to move away from Oracle, severely threatening their career development paths.
He and his colleagues chose PostgreSQL, an open-source software similar to Oracle, and successfully transitioned.
In the tide of the times, an individual is just a small wave, carried by the tide. Even a pig can fly at the crest of the wave, but it might hit the bottom the next second. Only a few are lucky enough to be sifted out by the big waves.
As for me, I also benefited from the era’s dividends. Alibaba’s e-commerce and internet finance allowed me to spend more than a decade in the IT industry. I was lucky to grow up in Hangzhou, avoiding the wandering life in a foreign land.
Because I have always had a sense of crisis in the IT industry, I learned from not understanding network management to learning about switches and Linux, and in 2013, I learned Docker.
In continuous learning, I actually developed a special skill. Even if something is difficult or I don’t understand it at first, I will operate it, input commands, see the results, and try to understand it.
In this way, I learned a lot of knowledge that I didn’t need at the time. As an operations engineer, I could develop iOS software popular in 2014 and write Swift. I knew about GitHub, browsed GitHub, and joined an American company.
My personal experience has had ups and downs, but the only constant is my desire to explore the unknown.
In front of me, I don’t care whether I understand something or not. I will try it. If I don’t understand, it’s okay. If I make a mistake, I can start over.
Because I love reading, I connect the knowledge in books to my actual work. For example, the book that influenced me the most was an article in a newspaper about an American old lady who donated $10 million from stock trading. I vaguely felt that stocks could earn some pocket money.
I was born in 1982. When I have memories, bubble gum cost 1 cent. Now it’s 1 yuan, and bank savings had an annual interest rate of 30%. In the 1990s, China experienced a period of skyrocketing prices.
My parents’ salaries also increased from 10 yuan to 5,000 yuan. Inflation left a mark on my young mind.
There is a study abroad that shows children who experienced inflation in their childhood are more likely to accept stocks.
Stocks rise and fall. This year it might rise by 3 yuan, and next year it might fall by 5 yuan. But overall, it still rises. If you pursue a perfect fixed return rate of 2%, you can only save in the bank. If you want both fixed and high returns, you can only be deceived by an 8% return rate. To put it bluntly, annual returns of 300% or 400% are just internet companies lending at high interest rates. How can you personally enjoy such high returns? You can only be deceived.
So, essentially, stocks are the human version of the monkey eating chestnuts in the morning and evening. If you give the monkey three chestnuts in the morning and four in the evening, it will be happy because it gets one more in the evening. If you give it four in the morning and three in the evening, it will hit you because it gets one less.
You can’t accept the version of two chestnuts in the morning and evening for fixed returns. It’s better to give 30 chestnuts in the morning and take back 15 in the evening. That’s better than two chestnuts in the morning and evening.
If you look at it over a long period, buying any stock will make money. But it can’t be a financial fraud company like Jia Yueting’s accounting firm.
Good companies have high premiums because of high profits. Buffett never bought tech stocks before, but he quietly bought 10% of Apple.
Times are changing, and he is also adjusting himself.
Good stocks are related to marriage and companies. In a good company, the CEO is wise, leading the company to continuous development. To stay in the company and enjoy the dividends, you also work hard for the company. The company’s profits remain high, and the stock value remains high.
From my interaction with my cousin and Bao Ge, the happiness index of the entire TiDB company is very high. The employees are enthusiastic about working for the company. An open-source company that aligns with reality and rides the wave of AI databases, why can’t it explode?
Companies, families, and countries are all the same entities. They can only develop with good leadership.
Nasdaq, as the gathering place for the highest market value companies, has become the darling of the times. Any stock you buy will rise because stocks that don’t rise and fall below $1 are forced to delist.
Speaking of which, Jia’s Tesla was also on Nasdaq. Because of poor performance, it was forced to delist.
Choosing good stocks can ensure a worry-free life because you are riding the tide of the times.
TiDB, in the context of the Internet of Everything, will inevitably become one of the most important databases globally.
It may not develop well due to some mistakes, but it will never develop poorly forever. The navigation of the sea depends on the helmsman. I personally feel that TiDB’s management is a very smart group of people.
As ordinary people, we must ride the tide of the times, take advantage of TiDB’s momentum, maximize our career, take the salary TiDB gives, and buy TiDB’s stock after it goes public. Stand at the peak of the times and point the way together.
Reference: Nasdaq’s annual rise and fall over the years, 20 years of rise, 5 years of fall, annual rise of 30%.
The next few years will be years of dramatic industry changes. TiDB requires everyone to use AI-assisted programming. The highest rising company is Nvidia, which provides chips. The top three are the three clouds. Even Datadog, which does database monitoring, is on Nasdaq. Why can’t TiDB go public? It should be a matter of the next few years.
Reference: The rise and fall of countries
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