Reflections on ApacheCon 2019 in Las Vegas: ShardingSphere’s First Participation and Community Insights
The article recounts JD Digits architect Zhang Liang’s experience representing the Apache ShardingSphere community at ApacheCon 2019 in Las Vegas, describing the conference atmosphere, community interactions, ShardingSphere’s observability talk and Shark Tank showcase, and the growing Chinese contribution to the Apache ecosystem.
ApacheCon 2019 took place in Las Vegas from September 9 to 12, and JD Digits senior architect Zhang Liang attended on behalf of the Apache ShardingSphere community, marking the project's first appearance at the conference.
The venue was located on the third floor of the Flamingo casino hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, surrounded by the city’s desert heat, bright lights, and famous nightlife.
Compared with domestic tech conferences, ApacheCon offered a more relaxed, peer‑to‑peer environment with smaller audiences, extensive hackathon sessions, and a mix of senior engineers who emphasized open‑source community building over formal presentations.
ShardingSphere participated in two activities: a talk on "Observability in Distributed Systems" that highlighted differences between Chinese and international tech focuses, and a Shark Tank lightning‑pitch session where ShardingSphere was one of five incubator projects showcased to the Apache Foundation.
The report concludes that Chinese companies and speakers made a strong presence at ApacheCon, underscoring the growing international contribution of the Chinese open‑source community and the continued evolution of ShardingSphere within the Apache ecosystem.
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