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Original topic: 【TiDBer 唠嗑茶话会 34】怀旧现场：是在什么样的契机下，第一次认识&听说 TiDB ？
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Nostalgic Moment: What was your first encounter with TiDB? Do you have anything to say to the TiDB community?
Late at night, I stumbled upon Teacher Fang’s first episode of Lao Fang Talks Numbers, and saw friends in the comments sharing how they got to know TiDB.
I couldn’t help but sigh, time flies so fast…
Now, whether it’s TiDB or the community, our team is growing stronger, and the community is getting better thanks to everyone’s contributions and participation 
What is the TiDB community like?
To borrow Teacher Shao An’s words:
This is my 261st day in the community, and I feel honored, often moved and warmed.
Everyone respects each other, helps each other, learns and communicates with each other.
This is probably the best image of the community in my heart
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The first time was during the POC test on Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, JD Cloud, and Tencent Cloud. The database on JD Cloud was TiDB. At that time, there was an introduction, but I don’t know if it was from the original manufacturer. 
The company’s business needed to create a data warehouse, and it was still TiDB 4.0 at that time.
In 2019, I suddenly wanted to replace a large amount of MySQL.
Because of distributed databases, I got to know TiDB through indexing.
Because I got to know it through working in the distributed database industry.
XC is coming, starting to research domestic databases, and found that TiDB is very popular.
I first came into contact with TiDB during the proof of concept (POC) phase, and I remember it was still version 2.0 at that time.
Opportunity:
New product selection database: choosing from a pool of candidates, whether they are major or minor, I will select whoever I point to.
Message to the community:
Bigger, stronger, more open.
The first time was in 2017 when the project director mentioned TiDB, saying it would become popular in the future. So I looked into it once, and the first time I used it was in 2020 when I installed and deployed it myself.
I came across TiDB during an offline exchange event in 2021, and have been connected with it ever since.
When you need to use a distributed database
At the end of last year, on December 9, I wrote a report on the log4j vulnerability (log4j-2.15.0-rc1 version payload trigger) at Guanshan Kou, analyzing the impact of actual operations on the system’s running programs. I saw that the neighboring team had an open-source database TiDB and even loaded an open-source Apache Flink. This is incredible! I accidentally fell into a new fish pond dug by my old colleague…
The company’s new project is using TiDB, getting to know TiDB 3.0.
I can’t remember the exact time, but it should be in 2019 when I attended the Guangxun MES seminar. A handsome guy with gray hair explained the application of TiDB in Guangxun MES.
Due to insufficient database disk space and increasing data analysis demands, we need to reselect the database. After a series of screenings, we finally chose TiDB.
The first time I heard about it was in Xuan Jie’s class.
The first time I heard about it was at QCon.
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