PingCAP to Sponsor CEDEC 2026, Japan's Largest Game Developer Conference in July

PingCAP K.K. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Eric Han; hereinafter "PingCAP") announces its sponsorship of "CEDEC 2026," Japan's largest technical conference for game developers focused on sharing knowledge and technologies in the gaming industry. The event will be held over three days from July 22 to 24, 2026.

Event Overview

Name: CEDEC 2026

Date: July 22 (Wed) – 24 (Fri), 2026

Venue: Pacifico Yokohama North Hall F

Organizer: Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association (CESA)

Supported by: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; City of Yokohama

Admission: Paid (pre-registration required)

URL: https://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2026/

Session Overview

Session Date and Time: July 24 (Fri), 2026, 13:40–14:40

Venue: Room 11

Session Title: How We Fully Migrated the Backend of a Game Service After One Year of Operation

Session Description:

We launched a game service using an external BaaS for the backend. However, as operations progressed, an increasing number of requirements emerged that were incompatible with the features provided by the BaaS, leading to growing development workloads. Additionally, after launch, multiple related services were introduced, increasing the need for flexible control over the backend, which served as the core of the service ecosystem.

Given these challenges, we decided to bring backend development in-house.

For the new in-house backend, we adopted AWS and TiDB.

TiDB is a distributed database technology we had been closely watching as a solution to long-standing sharding challenges in large-scale game development.

Given that this was an already-launched service with predictable scale, we determined it to be the ideal opportunity for our first adoption of TiDB.

This session will present the full story of our backend migration project, which involved two major challenges: migrating one year's worth of data from a BaaS that does not provide an export function, and implementing a distributed database.

Speaker

AppBots Inc.

Server-Side Engineer

Mr. Shota Mino

[Profile]

Mr. Mino has experience in data analytics, internal system development, and game server development at multiple companies. He joined AppBots Inc. in 2021.

In this project, he served as the lead backend engineer, primarily responsible for technology selection and infrastructure development.

[Message to Attendees]

Discrepancies between expected and actual user scale, and mismatches between BaaS capabilities and requirements, are issues any service may face. While not easy, migrating a backend—even with one year's worth of data—is not impossible.

We hope our real-world example presented in this session will serve as a helpful reference for those considering migration or currently undergoing the process.

"CEDEC 2026" Special Campaign

100 lucky attendees who attend the TiDB session and complete the session survey will receive an original T-shirt!

After completing the session survey, please specify your T-shirt size and shipping address.

Eligibility and T-shirt Delivery Information

This offer is limited to engineers employed at companies based in Japan. * Students, freelancers, academic researchers, and employees of competing companies are not eligible.

Only those who attend this session are eligible to receive the T-shirt.

Multiple survey responses from the same email address or individual are not allowed. In cases of multiple submissions, only the first entry will be valid.

T-shirts will be shipped sequentially after the event concludes. Please note that we do not provide advance shipping notifications.

Entries with incomplete form information or confirmed fraudulent submissions may be invalidated. We appreciate your understanding.

* Company and product names mentioned in this press release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

About TiDB

TiDB, a distributed NewSQL database, is increasingly adopted in mission-critical systems across diverse industries including gaming, finance, payment services, e-commerce, content services, telecommunications, manufacturing, distribution, and media. It is used by over 4,000 enterprises worldwide. TiDB allows data access via SQL, just like traditional relational databases, and meets diverse data processing needs through its distributed architecture, offering horizontal scalability, strong consistency, high availability with MySQL compatibility, and high-performance analytical processing via columnar storage. With the adoption of the new "TiDB X" architecture, TiDB is evolving into a next-generation platform supporting multi-model workloads, including vector search. Combined with high scalability and cost efficiency, TiDB can handle AI agent workloads involving massive, high-parallel on-demand queries.

About PingCAP

Founded in 2015, PingCAP is an enterprise software services provider committed to delivering open-source, cloud-native, one-stop database solutions. The company's name combines "Ping," the network command used to test connectivity, and "CAP" from the CAP theorem. While the CAP theorem states that only two of three—Consistency (C), Availability (A), and Partition Tolerance (P)—can be achieved simultaneously, PingCAP embodies the aspiration to achieve all three and remain connected (Ping). For more information, visit https://pingcap.co.jp.

Company Overview

Company Name: PingCAP K.K.

Address: 9F, TOKYOTORCH Jōbanbashi Tower, 2-6-4 Ōtemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

Representative: Eric Han

Founded: March 15, 2021

URL: https://pingcap.co.jp/

Business: Providing open-source, cloud-native, one-stop database solutions centered around the distributed NewSQL database "TiDB"