How We Doubled System Read Throughput with Only 26 Lines of Code

Explore how TiKV, a strongly consistent key-value database, implemented the Follower Read feature to double system read throughput with minimal code changes. Dive into the TiKV architecture, understand the motivation behind introducing Follower Read, and learn about its implementation process. Discover how this feature significantly reduces the load on Region leaders and improves overall system performance by balancing read operations among multiple followers. Gain insights from Minghua Tang, an Infrastructure Engineer at PingCAP, as he shares the technical details and benefits of this optimization in a 35-minute webinar presented by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).