Rebirth begins with e-commerce

Xihang, Alibaba headquarters.

It was already eleven o'clock in the evening, but the office was brightly lit.

Facing the ever-increasing number of visits, programmers stared at the system that loves to collapse or not.

A crash may or may not happen. Before it arrives, no one knows what the result will be. It can only be called "Schrödinger's system".

The waiters communicate closely with the merchants and deal with various emergencies.

"What should I do if the price is set incorrectly?"

"Inventory is locked, what should I do if I want to modify it?"

"What should I do if there is a conflict between store offers and official offers?"

...

Some questions are so young that my three-year-old son asked about, but they are still the key merchants on Taobao.

In this era, everyone is walking around in a row, and big businesses do not necessarily know more than individual shop owners.

However, staying up all night has become accustomed to the waiters.

In the eyes of merchants, they are just a group of species that do not have weekends, have no rest time, and perform tasks like machines.

Otherwise, you would not often post tasks in the merchant group at 12 o'clock in the evening and require the merchant to cooperate.

Although they are hard, they are blessed.

At this time, there were also bright lights and endless sleep, large and small e-commerce companies.

Pinru E-commerce is no exception. The employees' desktops are filled with snacks, pastries, Red Bull... food and beverages, and everyone is ready for the whole night.

The big TV in the conference room has been moved to the office lobby, and the interface of Taobao data cube appears on the screen.

The Data Cube is a data product released by Taobao. It can view store sales data and industry sales trends in real time.

At this time, the interface shows the sales volume on November 10th. Although not many people bought it, there are still people placing orders, and the sales amount changes in real time.

The countdown for the last ten seconds was that everyone couldn't help but put down their work, turned to stare at the data cube, as if waiting for the rocket to launch.

“…5,4,3,2,1,0!”

It officially arrived at 0:00 on November 11, and the sales amount on the data cube returned to zero, and then it could not be stopped.

About half a minute later, the number on the Rubik's Cube is still 0.

In the school auditorium, the singing and dancing performances had already ended. All the guests and reporters raised their heads and stared at the data cube interface on the projection.

"Didn't it start? Why didn't anyone buy it?"

"I don't know, the amount has not changed."

"It's because it's too late that the customers are all asleep, right?"

The people in the audience whispered and looked different.

The reporters are not afraid of big things when watching the fun, and they wait and see with the mood of watching the show.

Those suppliers share the honor and disgrace with Pinru E-commerce. Pinru did not sell well this Double Eleven, and their lives would not be better in the future.

After Pinru sells the volume, they don’t have to worry about not having orders in the future.

The sophomore student in the e-commerce department experienced last year's Double Eleven and had absolute trust in their teachers. They just wondered why the system was not responding and were not worried that no one would buy it.

The freshmen in their freshmen saw this scene, their eyes were full of confusion, but they were embarrassed to ask.

Luo Xiu smiled and said loudly: "Don't be anxious, let the bullet..."

What he wanted to say was to let the bullets fly for a while, but the movie seemed to be released next month, so he had to change his words and say, "Don't be anxious, wait for the wind to come."

A reporter asked loudly: "Why are you waiting for? Are you waiting for the northwest wind?"

Before he finished speaking, the number of data in the women's clothing store suddenly increased by more than one million, and it continued to increase.

At the same time, sales of several other stores also came out. Even the furniture store that had just opened recently, the sales amount in the previous minute exceeded 100,000.

It turned out that at the moment of 0 o'clock, because too many people paid at the same time, the system crashed briefly, resulting in data delays, and the amount was not displayed until now.

A supplier stood up, clasped his fists and congratulated loudly: "I just estimated that the combined sales of all Pinru E-commerce stores in the previous minute were nearly three million. Congratulations to Mr. Luo for creating another glory this year on Double Eleven!"

"Congratulations to Mr. Luo!"

"Congratulations to Mr. Luo!"

Others spoke out congratulations.

Especially those suppliers, they were finally sure that they had not bet wrong and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank you, thank you for your support!" Luo Xiuyi thanked him unanimously, but his face was still nervous and he did not completely relax.

The previous minute doesn’t mean anything, because each store has set up free orders, and the sales volume in the previous minute does not mean anything.

How much you can sell in the end depends on the next hour.

...

...

Ling Fei is a veteran chopper who likes to shop online. Her buyer accounts have two diamonds.

For the sake of Double Eleven, she suppressed her urge to shop and did not divulge a penny online for a whole month.

This month, she has also visited Taobao a lot and added her favorite products to the shopping cart.

She usually goes to bed at 10 o'clock, but now she has to wait in front of the computer and wait for twelve o'clock to grab it in order to make more than 50 items in the shopping cart.

Some of the products here are free orders for the first xx name, some are paid for gifts in the first ten minutes, while some are very small and will be snatched up later.

She experienced Double Eleven last year and knew that some hot selling items would be stolen at the moment they started selling.

She had to wait until midnight before she could sleep peacefully.

Yuqing is a newcomer to online shopping. A few days ago, she was planted with a Pinru juicer by a Weibo big v planted by her favorite.

The original price was sold for more than 3,000 yuan, but the Double Eleven dropped by 500 yuan, which made her feel very cost-effective and sent the link directly to her boyfriend.

"There is a juicer for a few hundred yuan, why buy it so expensive?" My boyfriend was obviously not happy.

"I have saved you 500 yuan, what else do you want?"

"Okay, okay, I'm wrong." My boyfriend quickly admitted his mistake.

......

Wei Xiong is a digital enthusiast and a graphics card enthusiast. He has been saving money since last year, just to buy the graphics card that is comparable to the dream lover's love home.

After accidentally learning that the graphics card was priced at Double Eleven, he could no longer hold back his thrilling heart and borrowed enough money from his friends around him.

In addition to these three, countless Taobao users were waiting in front of the computer, complaining that Taobao set the Double Ten to start at midnight, while waiting for the arrival of midnight with excitement.

At the last second, they kept refreshing the page, waiting for the price to change.

Some people pressed F5 badly and did not flash the page, some people entered the wrong password several times, and some people were stuck the moment before the payment...

At this moment, they finally knew how important it is to have a good internet speed.

What makes people even more helpless is that as the main online shopping subject at this time, many colleges are disconnected from the Internet on time after twelve o'clock.

Those who successfully paid can't sleep at this time, so they continue to go shopping on Taobao to see if there are any cheaper ones to pick up.