How Hackathons can help developers

07/05/23 • 34 min

In this episode, we discuss with our guest Rajendra Kadam (Sr. Backend Engineer at GitLab) his prior experience with Hackathons and how they can help developers especially early in their careers. Rajendra talks about how Hackathons helped with his job searches and shares advice for anyone considering participating in hackathons.
Link to the TiDB FutureApp Hackathon: http://tidbhackathon2023.devpost.com
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————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————
PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedSQL database with #MySQL compatibility. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database.
————————— Developer resources —————————
💫TiDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/TiDB_Developer
💫Introducing TiDB: https://youtu.be/_QBrPBwFoWM
💫Quick start with TiDB: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/quick-start-with-tidb
💫TiDB in #Kubernetes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb-in-kubernetes/stable
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🔹LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/pingcap
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🔹Slack: https://slack.tidb.io/invite?team=tidb-community&channel=everyone&ref=pingcap
🔹GitHub: https://github.com/pingcap

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