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Zhou Buqi took Boss Ma to see his private jet.

This buddy's eyes are shining, and he likes it very much.

"When can I fly?"

"The 28th of this month."

"So fast?" Boss Ma was very happy, "Well, very good!"

Zhou Buqi smiled, "If you want to use it, I can borrow it from you. I don't need it for my graduation ceremony on the 28th."

Boss Ma slapped his forehead, "Damn! I'd forget if you didn't tell me, you're still a college student!"

But there is no need to mention the matter of borrowing a plane. I have never used the newly bought plane, so I borrowed it first and drank the first soup? It's not human.

Zhou Buqi looked at his unfinished look, and said with a smile, "Aren't you going to buy one?"

Boss Ma's face collapsed, "I wanted to buy it, but... oh, forget it, don't mention it!"

Ali's stock price has fallen into single digits, which is too hip.

At this juncture, it is impossible to buy an airplane.

In fact, he just came out of the mountain recently, because the stock price collapsed so much that he was going crazy. He specially went to the Baiyun Temple in the mountains to practice, silenced for three days, copied scriptures by hand, and formulated the strategy of "digging deep holes, accumulating food widely, and not being king".

This strategy can be said to be a great success.

It is a magic weapon for Ali to rise again in the future.

This time I came to Beijing to look for Zhou Buqi. Looking at the plane is a trivial matter, but it is mainly some business cooperation.

Now that Ali is in a predicament, Lao Ma has kept a low profile and is very pragmatic.

Mainly the cooperation on cloud computing.

There is no way, Taobao is growing too fast, and Ali needs to make a breakthrough in technology. The first thing to pass is the technical barrier of 5,000 servers.

A system can only accommodate up to 5,000 servers.

However, the traffic of Taobao is getting higher and higher, especially when some promotional activities are carried out, the traffic will suddenly explode. The limitation of infrastructure has become a threshold that Ali must pass.

In order to cope with this hurdle, Ali also established a new business - Taobao Mall (the future Tmall).

Divide Taobao in the past into two websites, Taobao and Taobao Mall, which means that Taobao can have 5,000 servers, and Taobao Mall can also have 5,000 servers. Let Taobao Mall share part of the traffic, and it can withstand it.

However, the effect of Taobao Mall is not good, and everyone prefers to buy cheap commodities on Taobao.

Even though Taobao is divided into two, the traffic is not divided into two, and it is still concentrated in Taobao.

In fact, this problem is easy to solve, nothing more than continuing to split Taobao.

For example, splitting Taobao into clothing stations, shoes stations, daily necessities stations, electronic product stations, etc., and splitting it into multiple systems, each with a maximum of 5,000 servers, can solve the problem.

Simplify complex technical problems through business design that breaks down into parts.

This is what Ali did in the past. Lao Ma divided Ali into seven subsidiaries: B2B, Taobao, Alipay, Yahoo China, Alimama, Koubei and Alisoft.

The model of Ziweixing is the same.

Businesses with high traffic such as Weidian, Youyou.com, Xiaonei.com, Helo, and Toutiao are actually the result of “spin-offs”.

Once split, many different server systems will be formed, and every time a web page jumps, a new read must be completed in a different server system... The response speed will be slow.

Moreover, it is very troublesome.

Still a waste!

The server resources of Friends Network and Xiaonei Network must have surplus, which is a guarantee just in case. Each company must set aside blank resources to prevent server crashes caused by traffic surges. If these businesses can be integrated, it is only necessary to set aside a unified public blank resource, and waste can be reduced.

In short, the most important technological trend in the world today is "centralization".

Breaking through technical difficulties and integrating many scattered businesses can not only improve efficiency and user experience, but also reduce waste and arrange server resources more rationally.

The cloud computing platform is to put all different businesses on the cloud, and it is the master of centralization.

Only Ziweixing can do this in China.

Well, in fact, Ziweixing is not far behind.

Ziweixing has not yet broken through the technical bottleneck of 5,000 servers. According to Dr. Wang Jian, it will make a breakthrough before the end of the year.

This is a hurdle that must be passed to do cloud computing.

Theoretically speaking, cloud computing can connect countless servers to the same cloud system for management through complex distributed algorithms.

Because the old horse doesn’t understand technology, Zhou Buqi loves to show off that he understands technology in front of him, saying solemnly: “The current direction of technological development is centralization, which saves costs and improves efficiency. But the center Centralization also has disadvantages, too much centralization can easily lead to unequal resource distribution. If you want to pursue higher efficiency and user experience, the future trend may still be decentralization.”

Boss Ma almost died of anger, "Don't make a fool of yourself, you understand again?"

Zhou Buqi said with peace of mind: "I understand, of course I understand. I am different from you. I am young, with strong learning ability and quick adaptability. Although I am a layman, I can grasp the logic inside bit by bit. Unlike you, the knowledge system has become rigid and there is no room for improvement.”

Boss Ma said angrily, "Just one word, do you want to help?"

Zhou Buqi said bluntly: "Is there a need to ask? Of course I have. I have already said that after my cloud computing platform is set up, Taobao will be the first one to invite me."

"how much longer?"

"It will take a few years."

"Depend on!"

Boss Ma was very dissatisfied.

Zhou Buqi said helplessly: "Then what can we do? The technological gap is too great. Enterprises such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have achieved technological breakthroughs three years ago, and they can connect tens of thousands of servers. Our accumulated Still less. But don’t worry, my team will break through the bottleneck of 5,000 servers before the end of the year.”

"Really?" Boss Ma was pleasantly surprised. "At that time, the two sides can deepen cooperation."

Zhou Buqi pondered for a while, then nodded.

There are no secrets in Internet circles.

Another reason is that Internet technology is a "soft technology", which mainly exists in the concept. This is different from the "hard technologies" such as materials, vaccine chips, and semiconductors. The technical details of these fields have been made public.

Internet technology exists in the virtual world and has little to do with reality. Once you know it, you know it, and it doesn't involve craftsmanship. If others make it public, they will too.

Connecting more than 5,000 servers together is actually a soft technology. If you find a few key points, you will break through.

Then, the whole team will know it.

Copying can be done easily.

Once someone in the team jumps ship, or someone privately discloses some key technical links, other companies can easily do this.

Therefore, Ziweixing has made a breakthrough in this technical field. In a few years, other domestic companies will soon be able to catch up.

Just like Aliyun in the previous life, the early stage was full of snot and tears, extremely hard and difficult. But Alibaba Cloud has done a good job, and if other companies do cloud computing, they can easily follow suit. It's not because other companies have better technology. But because one is pioneering and enterprising, and the other is imitation learning.

In this regard, Zhou Buqi has a good attitude.

It is also right to suffer and suffer. Someone must take on more responsibilities and be the first to eat crabs to promote the development of the domestic Internet industry.

If we all want to imitate instead of pioneering, the innovation path of the domestic technology industry will never be established.

Zhou Buqi has this responsibility.

We even plan to disclose the distributed technology of server management to domestic counterparts for free at the right time, so that they can completely get rid of the technical limitations of the number of servers.

To prevent them from racking their brains to come and learn in a sneaky way, and to avoid spending huge sums of money on researching related technologies and retracing the path Ziweixing took, resulting in a waste of research and development funds.

Zhou Buqi explained this idea and told Lao Ma not to worry.

Ziweixing is doing many things that others have not done; Ziweixing will do it if others cannot do it.

When the cloud computing platform is built, it will be the first to open to Taobao!

Boss Ma laughed, "If everyone had half of your level of investment promotion, our country's GDP would have surpassed that of the United States!"

It can really go online!

Obviously they want to get Taobao to become a customer on Ziwei Xingyun computing platform, but they can still say a lot of truth.

...

Soon, a week passed.

Zhou Buqi is going back to school to attend the graduation ceremony.

Really a little nervous.

Mostly embarrassment.

As a student representative to participate in the ceremonies, it is nothing more than asking the principal to turn the tassels. He also wears two sets of clothes, one is a bachelor's suit and the other is a doctor's suit.

After graduating from a bachelor's degree, he directly becomes a doctor.

I really blush a little.

As if he was a privileged figure.

There is no other way, for the sake of the school's face, I can only accept it.

However, early this morning, he received a new piece of news that Rainbow Helo, which Ziweixing had indulged in, launched a new function, which directly forcibly binds Rainbow Helo and 51.