HBaseConWest2018 was held on June 18 in San Jose, California, hosted by Hortonworks. Attending HBaseCon West in Silicon Valley each year has become routine for the Xiaomi HBase team—our community presence is well known (seven HBase Committers, two PMC members), and the company is willing to share a year-in-review of internal practice and community contributions.
In 2018 we submitted the talk “HBase Practice at Xiaomi,” spent considerable effort preparing it, and rehearsed in English three times internally. Unfortunately, US–China relations were tense that year and our visas did not arrive on time. In past years, applying about a month ahead was enough. We interviewed at the embassy on May 14, were asked for supplemental materials, submitted the organizer’s visa letter on May 16, and as of this writing the visas still had not been issued. With no onsite attendance, we planned to present at HBaseConAsia on August 17 instead. After email with the committee—they had ranked our talk highly and liked the content—they offered a remote session. To guard against equipment issues, they asked for a recorded video we could fall back on. We recorded one, the quality was acceptable (editing helps), and we suggested playing the video onsite with remote Q&A for anything unclear.
What appeared at HBaseCon West 2018 was the PPT and video below. Part one covers Xiaomi internal practice (Jingyun Tian); part two covers replication improvements (me).
Missing the live conference was disappointing. Ted Yu (Hortonworks) and Tianying (Pinterest) had planned to meet us and those plans were canceled, along with other US travel. We are glad that, with the organizers, we could still summarize and share a year of Xiaomi’s work with the US HBase community. Thanks to the committee and community, and to Duo and Xiaohao for valuable feedback during rehearsals.