In an era of increasing open source emergence, there is a growing number of commercialized companies building products around top-tier Apache projects. Start-ups of top projects are also gaining more favor from the investment community, such as Tributary Technologies, the commercialization company of the open source microservice API gateway Apache APISIX, SphereEx, which uses Apache Shardingsphere as its cornerstone, Easy View, which donated Apache DolphinScheduler, and Timecho, which is built around the temporal database Timecho Technology, built around the Apache IoTDB. So, how does the Apache Top Project title help in commercialization? What are the constraints? How to balance the two things: open source and commercialization? We invited Wen Ming, Co-founder & CEO of Shenzhen Tributary Technology, Zhang Liang, Founder & CEO of SphereEx, Lidong Dai, Director of Big Data Platform & Apache DolphinScheduler PPMC of Eview, and Huang Xiangdong, Apache Member and PMC Chair of Apache IoTDB, to give their views on the top project startups. We will present our views on the top project start-ups from different perspectives.

Speakers:

Xiangdong Huang, Apache Member, Apache IoTDB PMC Chair, Ph.D. 2012, Tsinghua University School of Software, Assistant Researcher, Tsinghua University School of Software. He is also a member and secretary of the Special Committee on Open Source Technology of the Chinese Society of Communication. He has more than 30 patents related to temporal data management. He received the First Prize of Science and Technology Progress of Chinese Meteorological Society, the First Prize of Technical Invention of Ministry of Education, and the First Prize of Science and Technology Progress of Beijing.

Jialin Qiao, Apache IoTDB PMC and core module development. D., Class of 2016, School of Software, Tsinghua University, Assistant Researcher, School of Software, Tsinghua University. He received the First Prize of Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award and National Scholarship for PhD students. He is the author of the public number “Iron Head Qiao”.

Ming Wen, co-founder & CEO of Shenzhen Tributary Technology, PPMC of open source microservice API gateway Apache APISIX, founder and first chairman of OpenResty Software Foundation, initiator of 360 Open Source Committee, columnist of “OpenResty from Beginning to Practice” in Geek Time.

Liang Zhang, founder and CEO of SphereEx, is a well-known practitioner in the database field, with more than 10 years of experience in database exploration and practice, loves open source, is good at distributed architecture, and promotes elegant code. He has worked in several large Internet companies as architecture and database team leader, Apache Member, Microsoft MVP, Aliyun MVP, Tencent Cloud TVP, Huawei Cloud MVP, Apache ShardingSphere Founder & PMC Chair, and published the book “Future Architecture - From Service to Cloud Native”. He has published the book “Future Architecture - From Servitization to Cloud Native” and the paper “Apache ShardingSphere: A Holistic and Pluggable Platform for Data Sharding” in ICDE.

Dai Lidong, Co-founder of WhaleOps, Apache DolphinScheduler PMC Chair, Apache Member, Apache SeaTunnel PPMC, Apache Incubator Mentor, ApacheCon Asia Bigdata Track co-Chair, big data technology community(with over 10,000 members) organizer, and Top 33 Chinese Open Source Pioneers in 2021. He devotes himself to the research and development of data platform architecture in the data field for more than 10 years and is a skilled expert in data platform construction and data lake and warehouse construction.