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Although he went to Yang Mi's side, Zhou Buqi's mind was still immersed in his work.

Tang Binchen's words gave him a lot of inspiration.

Why did Renren and Kaixin fail? Why is Facebook on the other side of the ocean becoming more and more successful? They are all the same type of website, why not in China?

In the past, Zhou Buqi has been looking for gaps at the application level.

Now I understand that the technical level cannot be ignored.

At present, Friends.com is doing better than Facebook, with more functions, better experience, and stronger ability to make money. However, Friends.com is only a colorful appearance, and the interior is empty, and the technical exploration is far from enough.

Facebook's development is from the inside out, making technical reserves internally, launching a lot of technical exploration, and then slowly transforming to the application layer.

If it is not improved, Friends.com will be weak in succession, and Facebook will accumulate a lot.

Tang Binchen just went to Facebook for an internship for a period of time. He is not a high-level executive, but only works in the R\u0026D department. The information he has must be incomplete. He knows that Facebook is working on eight technology projects, which may be just the tip of the iceberg.

Friends network is still virtual...

"Inner void!"

Zhou Buqi sighed with emotion and planned to go to the bathroom to take a shower.

Yang Mi rolled over and got out of bed, followed behind, and said softly, "Mr. Zhou, you are not false! You are not false at all!"

This is a very ordinary two-bedroom apartment, the bathroom is outside the bedroom, the naked buttocks of the two of them, Ning Yaxian who is waiting in the living room can't help but have a panoramic view. YouQi almost burst out laughing when she heard Miss Yang's words.

After taking a bath and getting dressed, Yang Mi said carefully: "Mr. Zhou, this bed... seems to be of poor quality, it creaks, I'm afraid it will fall apart, why don't you change it?"

Zhou Buqi was very casual, "Well, just ask Secretary Ning for reimbursement after the replacement."

"Thank you Mr. Zhou!"

"By the way, you already have a house, do your parents know?"

"Didn't tell them." Yang Mi was a little embarrassed, bit her lip, and said in a low voice: "My mother said that when I graduate from college, I will be financially independent, and all the salary will belong to me."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Then don't run this way if you have nothing to do. Give Secretary Ning a set of keys. When she is free, she will arrange for someone to clean up for you."

Then, Ning Yaxian took the key and left with Boss Zhou.

After getting in the car, Zhou Buqi said to the driver: "Brother Luo, are you a scout?"

"right."

"Will you check the camera?"

"sure."

Zhou Buqi glanced at Ning Yaxian next to her, "Come over later, let Brother Luo check it out first."

Ning Yaxian didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Isn't it?"

Zhou Buqi snorted, "Be careful sailing for thousands of years!"

Ning Yaxian pursed her lips, her eyes teasing, "What about me? Do you want to check too?"

Zhou Buqi said in a spirited way: "If it's your sister, I'm still not at ease."

"She's going home, and she won't come after this year."

"ah?"

Ning Yaxian said: "She came here temporarily to help me take care of the children, so she can't be here all the time, right? Her work and friends are all in her hometown. It's not interesting to be alone in the capital."

Zhou Buqi said meaningfully: "One person can become two people."

Ning Yaxian broke down and said: "Boss, please let us go!"

Zhou Buqi snorted, "As if I would like to flatter you two sisters, love will come or not!"

...

Tang Binchen didn't take a vacation and came to work the next day.

Zhou Buqi organized Xu Liangjie, Cheng Binghao, Zhang Yiming, Guo Pengfei, He Yang, Wang Haoyang, Guo Pengfei, Wang Xing, and even called Yang Zhenkun from the R\u0026D center.

Yang Zhenkun is the chief architect of Ziwei Star in name, but in fact he has never participated in the company's strategic design and operation, and is only focused on developing his own distributed database.

This time I came here mainly because the topic of discussion is very important.

With the advancement of the times, more and more information, data exponential growth. It can be said that in the future IT field, all functions cannot be achieved without distributed design.

Yang Zhenkun patted his chest and promised, "This May, our distributed algorithm will be launched. Then, we can carry out more extended algorithm research on distributed algorithms. What Facebook can do, we can do too!" "

Xu Liangjie has never been optimistic about his project, and said lightly: "Distributed databases have not become mainstream. Even if they are made, it is still a question of whether they can be applied. Even if they are applied, they cannot be directly used in such important businesses as Friends.com. In my opinion, We should go in two steps."

Cheng Binghao also held the same opinion, "Yes, on the one hand, do research on distributed databases and consider for the future. On the other hand, we must learn from Facebook, adopt a multi-database architecture, and develop our data distribution system and various storage systems. In case of distributed If we don't make a database, at least we won't be crippled."

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Yiming, Guo Pengfei and Wang Xing also held the same view.

Yang Zhenkun was embarrassed and helpless.

I feel that apart from the layman, the big boss, all the tech giants in the company are full of doubts about themselves.

Zhou Buqi frowned, "Binchen, what do you think?"

Tang Binchen was silent for a while, and said: "Facebook's database model is a common practice of Silicon Valley giants, represented by Google, including Microsoft and Amazon. This model is safe and can go through. Distributed The concept of the database is of course very good, but no one can say for sure how the actual application effect will be.”

The meaning is clear.

The technology giants in Silicon Valley have all gone ahead and walked out of a safe route. We just need to learn to follow suit. If you have to force a distributed database... From a theoretical point of view, it is certainly feasible, but in the process of implementation, it must be difficult and dangerous.

You can't use such an important project as Friends.com as a guinea pig to experiment with distributed databases.

Zhang Yiming said: "The direction of the distributed database is correct, but the technical difficulty is not small. More importantly, our engineers have no experience in using this type of database. We should start with small projects, improve and optimize the database on the one hand, and train our own database engineers on the other hand. When everything is mature, we will enter the core business.”

Zhou Buqi couldn't help but sighed.

The entire set of Internet standards was established in Silicon Valley. Now he wants to build a distributed database, a set of new gadgets that are not available in Silicon Valley, and he must encounter great resistance.

Everything has to be explored and researched by oneself.

It is easy to imitate, but too difficult to be original.

More importantly, excellent technical talents are big treasures. They like to use a traditional database like Oracle, and if they change it forcibly, they may have to leave the job.

As an Oracle engineer, he changed his job and is still an Oracle engineer. Changing to an engineer of Feitian database, this job-hopping will be troublesome, and I have to go back and re-learn Oracle. No one likes this process.

The entire IT industry is a standard set by Silicon Valley, from university textbooks, to computer application environments, to jobs. It is difficult to challenge this standard.

When he first entered the industry, Zhou Buqi was full of ambition and felt that he would be omnipotent after being reborn. But now that his career has achieved great success, the blind pride of being a reborn is gone.

Even if the distributed database is successful, it must be extremely difficult to promote it in the future.

However, always stick to it and work hard for it!

Zhou Buqi took a deep breath, "Then let's make a decision. See if there are any suitable projects on Facebook, and let's hurry up and do it... Well, can we buy it directly?"

"Okay... okay."

Xu Liangjie was also a little uncertain.

Wang Xing snorted coldly, and said loudly: "In my opinion, our technology industry has to be divided into three steps. The first step, as the boss said just now, is to go to Silicon Valley to buy technical services. Take the code. We are shareholders of Facebook and have cooperation experience, so we can buy it. The second step, as Tang Binchen said, we set up a secret 'X team' to poach people from the scientific research teams of large Silicon Valley companies , put the hope of new technologies and new horizons on them. The third step is to increase the strength of the technology research and development team. There must be external strength and internal strength.”

Xu Liangjie frowned and said: "Last year, we were able to reach a technical cooperation with Facebook because they were still very weak. Now Facebook has started a globalization strategy, and the Chinese market is indispensable. From this perspective, it is competition with Friends.com." Opponent, if you want to get the core code again... I'm afraid it will be very difficult."

Wang Xingdao: "So we have to go in three steps and cooperate with each other! Buying part, digging talents to return to China to study part, and self-researching part, it is enough."

Zhou Buqi couldn't help asking: "How is our self-research level? Can't we make it if we don't buy it or steal it?"

Cheng Binghao said: "The Internet is different from other industries. It is relatively open. Big companies in Silicon Valley will open source their core technologies from time to time to drive the progress of the global IT industry. Every Wednesday morning, we will hold a regular meeting to read and study the latest English materials. , Master the latest technological developments and directions. We can learn and do it slowly, and we can make it. But the time consumption is huge. The technology that can be made in Silicon Valley in 3 months may take us 12 months.”

Zhou Buqi understood now.

Just like the distributed algorithm, he also made the layout early. Facebook entered the market later. As a result, all the distributed algorithms of others have been applied, and the related expansion system research has been carried out through distributed technology, such as the distributed cache system. ...

Ziweixing is far away.

He Yang coughed lightly, and comforted him: "The objective reality exists, but we don't have to underestimate ourselves. Compared with the Silicon Valley giants, we may have some gaps, but in China, we are number one!"

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "This is the truth. Everyone knows about Baidu's pyramid scheme, right? Li Yanhong is ambitious and wants to spend 500 million yuan. This big project is a big data processing system under a distributed framework. In May, our Distributed algorithms can be easily applied, they are just getting started, at least we are ahead.”