Reboot 2003

Chapter 306 086: Hard Technology (Two in One)

One thing to say is that Chen Qin really didn’t want to cheat him by selling cloud services to others, so it is very dangerous to manipulate the server. Of course, Alibaba itself seems to have done this kind of thing. There are rumors that they use their own cloud service. The service has used the domain name of competitor Huicong.com, but Chen Qin did not want to do this.

As for whether he wants to help Yahoo deal with Alibaba, it has nothing to do with him. As for using this thing to blackmail others, it is feasible, but what bad intentions can a middle school student have? If it is this kind of thing, everyone can see it. His machinations are still too difficult for him to control.

So if you really want to do some tricks on your own, you still have to use your knowledge as a reborn person.

After all... it's an e-commerce.

Although it is not as simple as making money by opening a website, as a person from the future, we are very clear about the future development direction of e-commerce.

From a user perspective, online shopping does have some different differentiation tracks; but overall, its advantage over traditional offline retail is mainly 'cheap'.

The basic logic of online shopping in the previous incremental era was 'I'll lower the price and wait for users to buy', but as the times evolve, the model of 'actively using price reduction information to induce users to consume' will begin to dominate, and the same goes for online payments. .

When the time comes, Juhuasuan, Double Eleven, and Cutting the Knife will appear one after another. These methods are useful, and they are a golden finger for the reborn, but there are no barriers. Maybe you use them in front of you, but the industry will use them in the back. The leader inside followed him.

Maybe you are a Double Eleven, and the opposite is a 618. You are a Juhuasuan, and the opposite is a Jushi. Of course, a temporary lead is also a lead, but these methods are basically nuclear weapons that can only be used once. If you use them well, you can overtake in corners. But if you don't do it at the right time, you're giving ammunition to others.

At the same time, these methods are not difficult to come up with. Not to mention that the "Cyber ​​Monday" on Melician's side has already begun, and the plan copied from the other side of the ocean is a universal golden finger for Chinese Internet companies.

What's more, limited-time promotions are also a commonly used promotional method among traditional retailers. If he doesn't use it himself, his opponents may figure it out on their own in two days.

But the reason why people are doing it now is that the problem is not the innovation that users can see, but the technical aspect.

After all, from a technical point of view, no matter it is Juhuasuan, Double Eleven or Qiandao, they are all just looking for trouble. If you are talking about a website that sells goods, if you want to sell goods, just sell your goods well. What’s the point of having users come to a certain point in time to buy something?Although the Internet is an asset-light industry, large-scale network services cannot be achieved by just adding a server. If resources are insufficient, forcing such activities is not as simple as "the website will become stuck." If there is no preparation plan, the server will It will definitely collapse.

Therefore, to carry out these promotional activities, we actually need a series of technology tree points. Back then, Shuixie Getai had a problem of insufficient bandwidth when it had millions of visits, and storing information requires distributed storage technology and the stability of the SQL system. Performance also needs to be tested. To sum up, these problems are how a website can withstand simultaneous visits by millions or even tens of millions of people without crashing, which is what the industry often calls 'high concurrency'.

This technology itself is a considerable topic, and of course it is not difficult to achieve promotions; especially for websites like Taobao and Amazon that are inherently faced with a large number of high-concurrency tasks.

Bandwidth itself is a money issue, and it is actually the easiest to solve. Galaxy Software has been studying distributed technology since Getai.com. It would be a long road for other companies to study it from scratch. They have to start slowly with Google's 04 paper. Yes, but this year the open source solution Hadoop came out, which is a good shortcut. When they have done enough technical homework, they will naturally come back to grab Chen Qin's promotional business method...

How can this work.

So Chen Qin kindly helped Alibaba arrange a set of cloud computing services.

Cloud computing is good at everything, and I really don’t want to help Yahoo deal with them. But the Internet virtual machine has not yet been completed. If Alibaba wants to engage in those businesses, it can only buy servers that can handle tens of millions of concurrency at any time. At this time, this is not a technical issue but an economic issue.

Because the research on automated virtual machines has not yet been completed, for Alibaba, this cloud service is probably like a sophon that can lock the technology tree. Although its own intention will be discovered sooner or later, Ma Yun is not reborn after all. Whether the person can think of this before signing the contract depends on his own destiny...

So after it was settled, Chen Qin hurriedly went to talk to the company, but he didn't explain the purpose of this cooperation.

I just want to talk about a big deal and let everyone get ready quickly... The biggest significance of cloud computing services is to reduce costs and increase efficiency. At present, domestic programmers and operation and maintenance are still very cheap, and there is basically no need for this technology. , even if you can rely on publicity and hard promotion, you must at least have a pilot business to let the market know the benefits of this thing.

Of course, several key technologies of cloud computing are still under development. There was no need to worry about this matter, but now we have a ready-made major customer in advance. In short, it is a good thing. The company will soon become busy.

Cloud computing is different from Kaitian system. In terms of commercial purposes, Kaitian system actually achieved its purpose last year. However, cloud computing is related to the company’s future development direction for who knows how many years. In short, the company attaches great importance to this matter. , before the negotiation, I was also asked to give a [-]% discount on the quotation. Although Yahoo is paying the money, there may be some minor problems with the first order, so I ask the customer to be more patient...

Just like that, the Olympic Games were officially underway, and the blank page of Galaxy Browser was hung with a news page. The first page was the Olympic gold medal list, and users seemed to have good reviews.

And his career is coming to an end, mobile phones from friends are starting to go on sale, Fota's popularity continues to heat up, and the first version of the transplanted version he worked so hard to create is about to be released...

Everything else went smoothly, but for some reason, there seemed to be some new twists and turns in Alibaba's migration to the cloud.

Of course, the business has started. Alibaba, Yahoo and Galaxy have been arguing for a long time, and finally finalized the specific scope of Alibaba's cloud migration, which is probably Taobao and an advertising distribution system that is being built. As for Alibaba, he was a little unhappy at first, but Galaxy was willing to cooperate and said it would help them back up data on external servers. Yahoo would also notify Yahoo in advance of any news. It also secretly signed a concerted action agreement in the small joint venture established. Alibaba felt that there was no problem. , and happily prepared to go to the cloud.

But Ma Yun himself seems to be quite dissatisfied with this matter. It is said that at an industry seminar in Shanghai, Ma Yun semi-publicly said that the Kaitian system was nothing special.

During this period, there seemed to be some new rumors in the world. It was said that the equity dispute between Alibaba and Yahoo had some new developments. There were rumors that Galaxy Software was secretly supporting Yahoo. There were even rumors pointing out the recent incident. The sub-cloud service provider is related to this...

Chen Qin disagrees with this. If selling a set of cloud computing services can be regarded as aiding the evil, then of course Alibaba's development of a compatible system can be regarded as a stab in the back.

However, the information discussed in the media and the Internet is still relatively far away, but when you are around you, your feelings sometimes become a little clearer.

For example...the group of people in the small warehouse next door to New Era.

It seemed that they were already planning to hang out there and then wait to return to their Lin'an headquarters. After the initial discussion, they seemed to have reached a consensus from top to bottom.

As a result, they suddenly started to work hard and prepare to work overtime recently.

Not only was he as busy as ever during the day, but there was nothing he could do about it, after all, "Relics Brawl" was about to be launched.When I was looking through game test reports in the company mailbox, I found that there were a lot of work reports from expatriates at Alibaba.

Occasionally when running there at night, I pass by the downstairs of New Era and see that the overtime lights upstairs are still on. At this time, I will also think about what they are trying to do.

On the day before the end of the summer vacation, Chen Qin was eager to start the public beta of the game. Although it was a little faster than expected, the market response seemed to be quite good, and it seemed that it had really achieved the initial goal-today's smart phone system The number of users is not high. If we do not take into account the legacy of the candy bar button machines of Galaxy network mobile phones, now after one or two years of development of large-screen smartphones, the number of users is probably in the millions.

If there is a game with a wide enough audience - usually they are game IPs with an audience base of tens of millions.

Even if it is just a publicity stunt, it is still an important source of user supplement for the system.

Perhaps because this opportunity came so quickly and fiercely, the group of people from the Bodhidharma Academy in the small warehouse seemed to be even more nervous.

The brothers who were following him couldn't stand it anymore. Xiao Gao said that they worked overtime until early in the morning every day. Chen Qin took the time to go to their place and took a look, but he didn't see anything he hadn't seen before. However, whether it was volunteering to help with optimization or Continuing to work on their Alibaba Cloud OS, the progress pressure seems to be high.

After a rough look, it seemed that the leader had given him a task. The executive from the galaxy had dark circles under his eyes and was a little listless when talking to Chen Qin: "Xiao Chen, your game seems to be quite popular."

"It's not bad, it's all thanks to you."

"The task is heavy," he said, "but it's almost over. Today our boss will come to visit the front line. You can come and have a chat then."

"Who is the boss of Bodhidharma Academy?"

Chen Qin hadn't asked carefully yet, but the other party replied: "It's our Mr. Ma. He wants to inspect the work personally."

Chen Qin was a little surprised, but he didn't think much about it at this time. He just thought that Ma Yun might really value this system.

And since the other party invited him, he waited in the small warehouse that afternoon, and Ma Yun really came.

It's not the first time I've seen him, and the bosses of Internet companies generally pay more attention to a "vigorous and vigorous" personality, and usually don't pay much attention to the pomp and circumstance.

Before going upstairs, I asked the driver to wait downstairs, and just came up with the logistics. When passing by the second floor, I seemed to look at the "Relic Brawl" banner hanging outside the New Era wall for a while.When I entered the office, I immediately became brothers with everyone in the small warehouse and even started to talk to each other, saying how important your work is, not to mention the bonus after the project is over, and saying that it is really hard for everyone to work in this small warehouse. Okay, I’ll give everyone paid holidays after this project is over...

After a lot of pie drawing, the programmers with dark circles on the scene became energetic, and the executives were also excited and talked more. However, the other party obviously came to the scene just to talk about these things. There were no tables and chairs for everyone. Just sitting on the bench together.

"When we first founded Alibaba, we were crowded into a small shabby house like this. At that time, everyone had little money and couldn't talk about money, so they just worked hard..."

Mr. Ma personally had a good time with a group of technical experts. Everyone was very happy because of the big deal, but now they are not even a few years away, and they are a little embarrassed.

"Of course everything is getting better now, and we will take advantage of it if possible. But now that the Yanjing Olympics has been successful, our country is also facing great opportunities. I believe we can do better in the future. Now we are standing on the cusp of the times..."

What follows is a grand narrative, and everyone is fascinated by the distant events.

"But as we said last time, we must be prepared for danger in times of peace and have a sense of crisis. If we don't move forward, we will be surpassed by others, just like we surpassed others..."

At this time, everyone's thoughts were piqued. Of course there is no problem with this, but we must be prepared for danger in times of peace. Where does the danger come from?

"The future is an era of large-screen smartphones, and the system you are building is related to our prospects at Alibaba in the next few years, or even ten years..."

It turned out to be this.

Chen Qin secretly felt funny. If your own e-commerce company doesn't know how to do it well, what's the fuss about?

But then Ma Yun seemed very serious and his face turned serious——

"We are now cooperating with the galaxy, but we cannot rely on others everywhere. If we don't have something of our own, we will be looked down upon by others sooner or later..."

"Why can they lead the trend, why can't we? Are we Alis born to be different from others? Of course not..."

The men listened carefully and Ma Yun spoke seriously.

Chen Qin is sitting in the corner. Why does he feel a little vindictive?

Chen Qin was still a little suspicious at this time, wondering if he had discovered the 'Zhizi' plan?

But it didn't feel like it. Leaving aside the part about getting chicken blood, it sounded like he was just a little unconvinced.

"What you said just now is not a secret, and it doesn't matter if any of you tell Xingxing! But now that we are cooperating with Xingxing, what I want to say is that we also have our own things! I heard that Xiao Chen's game has been completed recently, and we have no plans to start a project. It’s been several months; Ping Yi Zhi, why don’t we talk about the recent work progress now!”

Ma Yun issued a military order to the executive. It turned out that his nickname was Ping Yizhi.

In any case, everyone was busy showing the recent work progress to Mr. Ma.

Having said so much, everyone in the small warehouse seemed to be nervous. His subordinates took out their mobile phones for demonstration and showed Ma Yun the results of their recent work.

"Our system is already compatible with almost all formats of Kaitian and Fuchsia. Although there are still some UI layer projects that have not been completed, the program is almost ready to run..."

The executive named Ping Yizhi demonstrated it to Ma Yun. Alibaba's OS interface is simple and elegant, and the pre-installed programs are also presentable. Looking at the parameter interface, it is indeed a third-party system based on Kaitian System, and it has everything it should have. have.

Ma Yun looked at his phone: "Is this from Lenovo?"

"Yes, but we can flash our system. Flashing requires some tools." A programmer introduced, "Everyone will be able to flash our system. Of course, we can also directly provide software to hardware vendors. Bag."

Ma Yun nodded: "What about compatibility?"

The system was developed by the entire DAMO Academy, and it is not entirely their fault. The compatibility is the result of this small studio itself.

"You can install it. Look, Mr. Ma, this is the No. 1 mini-game "3D Block Drawing" for this time." Ping Yi pointed out to him to demonstrate. After opening the program, a 3D interface appeared, with a table with a A stack of actionable building blocks with a physics engine.

"This is a project supported by Kaitian System itself. Neither Google's Fuchsia nor the third-party system developed by Lenovo can run it, but our own system can run it."

As he spoke, he smoked blocks on the system. The smoke was very smelly and destroyed the mountain of blocks at once, but the picture looked quite smooth.

For comparison, they also took a Galaxy's own Guazi mobile phone: "Mr. Ma, look, we also built a Guazi mobile phone for comparison..."

The two phones were turned on at the same time, and indeed they had the same screen and similar configurations.

When I turned on the Jenga Blocks, I could clearly see that the frame rate on the Guazi phone was a little lower, especially after they performed a draw and the entire Jenga tower collapsed. The frame rate on the Guazi phone's screen was visibly laggy, compared to the Lenovo phone with Alibaba OS. There is obviously a lot of difference.

Ma Yun was surprised: "Isn't this great? The configurations on both sides are the same?"

"Yes, it's basically the same." Ping Yi pointed out confidently, "Google's Fuchsia can't run, but we can, and it's faster than anyone else."

In fact, there are some hardware gaps. Last year, large-screen mobile phones were popular, but the hardware supply chain was not ready yet. Especially the graphics technology was basically still in a very primitive stage. This year, the overall performance of the hardware is better. It is difficult to say what the picture just said. The performance advantage is entirely due to Alibaba OS.

But even Chen Qin looked at it and nodded. At least no matter what, the picture performance of this Lenovo mobile phone is much better than that of Guazi. Ma Yun was also very happy: "Okay, we need this kind of innovation, this is what we need Hard technology!”

That’s about it for understanding the situation. Mr. Ma is very satisfied and has already talked to everyone on the spot about the bright prospects after catching up with Galaxy in the future.

"I think neither Google nor Galaxy really realizes the importance of technology. Map support and developer ecology are secondary. If we improve the technology now, these things will come to us. In the past 30 years, The history of semiconductor technology tells us that only technological progress is the biggest driving force for the development of the times, and our path now is the right path!"

Mr. Ma spoke impassionedly, and Chen Qin shrugged secretly after hearing this. No wonder he made a special trip today. He didn't seem to have discovered the 'Sophon' plan, but he was coaxed like a child and had to fall behind others. He probably I'm a little bit unconvinced.

But others didn't seem to see any problem with this.

The programmers were as excited as before. Under the illusion of leading the times, something seemed to become lighter, but compared with the bonus vacation, those things seemed to have become unimportant.

But after Ma Yun finished speaking, he saw that there was another junior high school student at the scene. Xiao Chen, who had been sitting next to him, was bored and playing with his mobile phone.

It's just a small game, so it's insignificant compared to this kind of hard technology, but I've sent people to optimize it before, so let's take a look.

After Ma Yun finished drawing the pie, he remembered this and said, "By the way, Xiao Chen's game has started testing today."

Speaking of this, everyone's expressions changed a bit. Ping Yi pointed out: "Yes, but they are internal testing..."

But after Xiao Chen understood his purpose, he waited for a long time, just waiting for now.

He quickly jumped off the stool and took out the USB flash drive, cleared his throat and said, "It doesn't matter. I have a lot of activation codes here. I heard that Mr. Ma is coming for testing, so I have prepared the installation package in advance!"

　Stop scolding, stop scolding, tonight, tonight!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)