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When Zhou Buqi talked about this, Wang Jian had no choice but to tell the truth, "Indeed, I intend to leave my job, and I am indeed very interested in the direction of cloud computing."

"That's not good!"

"The company I am optimistic about is Ali."

"No way?"

Zhou Buqi opened his eyes wide with surprise.

Zhang Yiming was at a loss, "Doctor, are you going to Ali? Why? Ali is playing marketing and has no technical reserves at all. You may not know that our open platform sold the source code to Ali for 100 million yuan .But they said that they were not confident that they could study and understand the source code, so we had to send technicians to help them build the Taobao open platform.”

"yes……"

Dr. Wang Jian sighed, quite helpless.

Zhou Buqi was very surprised, "Cloud computing is the most cutting-edge technological project in the world, that is, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and IBM are capable of doing it. Such a high-end big project, if you go to Ali, which is a technological desert, this is not a secret investment by a bright pearl." ?"

Wang Jian hesitated for a moment, as if he was in a dilemma.

Zhou Buqi said: "It's okay, if you have anything to say, just say it."

Wang Jiandao: "It costs too much money to do cloud computing. Moreover, the current direction of cloud computing is not clear, and it needs to be explored. Once the direction is wrong, it will cost more money. I heard that you are in the distributed The research and development investment of the database is 100 million per year?"

"right."

"But doing cloud computing, the annual cost may reach 1 billion US dollars!"

When Zhang Yiming heard this, his expression changed.

Zhou Buqi had a clue in his mind, knowing that Dr. Wang Jian was scaremongering, so he said calmly and indifferently: "In my opinion, the problem that money can solve is not a problem!"

Wang Jian shook his head, disapprovingly, "When billions of dollars have been invested, no effect can be seen. Even if you agree to such a big project, others will not agree, and the investor will not agree."

Zhou Buqi laughed and said: "Ziweixing is not good, but Ali is fine?"

Wang Jian said firmly: "Ali is fighting with his back to the wall. If he can't do it, he has to do it. This is the only way out!"

"Um……"

Zhou Buqi immediately understood what he meant.

Wang Jian said categorically: "Based on Ali's current model and the rapid growth of Taobao, Ali does not have a cloud computing platform, and there is only one dead end. Among domestic Internet companies, only Ali can grit its teeth and die in cloud computing. Or die, Either smash cloud computing, there is no second way to go."

Zhang Yiming couldn't help asking, "Why do you say that?"

Wang Jiandao: "Taobao's model is very easy when it is small. Once the scale becomes larger and the traffic increases, it will be the most complicated model. The amount of technical engineering is larger than that of Baidu, Weidian, and friends."

He then explained this point of view.

The traffic of Baidu, Weidian Search, and Friends.com is larger than that of Taobao. However, the traffic of these websites is very average, and there is not much difference in traffic every day and every hour.

This has a big advantage.

It is enough to build a server cluster, set a traffic red line, and carry it.

Because the traffic is within the controllable range, there will be no sudden explosive growth in a certain period of time, far exceeding the load of the server.

Taobao is different.

Taobao plays a marketing model and often does some promotional activities. The usual traffic is relatively low, and a small-scale server is enough. But once the promotion is launched, the traffic will skyrocket and break through the peak in a short time!

In particular, placing an order is an extremely complicated process. Ordering, payment, confirmation, and payment, this process requires the client and server to complete dozens of protocol confirmations.

When doing activities, there may be hundreds of thousands of orders per second, and then hundreds of millions of visits to the server are completed within one second.

This is an unimaginably huge pressure on the server.

There is also the behavior of canceling an order after placing an order, and the situation is even more complicated.

Wang Jiandao: "Although the traffic of Youyou.com is very large, the operation difficulty is actually not high. Search engines such as Baidu and Weidian have great technical challenges. It is necessary to accurately retrieve the search results among tens of billions of entries. As it emerges, large-scale data processing technologies are increasingly needed. Fortunately, Baidu and Micropoint only face big data retrieval challenges without server pressure. Taobao’s future dilemma will be server The double whammy of pressure and big data pressure."

Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows, "Big data?"

"Taobao also has search! Otherwise, why did Alibaba acquire Yahoo China two years ago? Wasn't it just for their search technology? But after two years of work, Yahoo's technology failed to integrate into Taobao. Didn't Yahoo China change the person in charge recently? ?”

"Taobao's search is very large? Comparable to Baidu and Weidian?"

Zhou Buqi didn't quite understand.

Baidu, Weidian, what kind of traffic is this?

Dealing with billions of searches every day!

With Taobao’s traffic, 100 million searches per day is not bad.

Moreover, Baidu and Weidian want to search out the correct results among tens of billions of web pages. The number of products on Taobao is only 100 to 200 million, and the search scale is not an order of magnitude at all.

Zhang Yiming shook his head and explained: "This is different. Web searches like Baidu and Weidian are more about retrieving text. A web page only retrieves titles, which may only be 1KB. But Taobao products are different, except for product descriptions. , and high-definition pictures, each search result may cost 1MB."

Wang Jian nodded, "In addition, check the product page. This page contains product attributes, detailed descriptions, reviews, and seller information. These contents need to be read from our own server, at least from the cache. Baidu’s search results are different. After clicking to enter the webpage, it corresponds to the server of the website, not Baidu’s server. The load capacity is completely different.”

This time, Zhou Buqi, a layman, understood.

It is no wonder that in Silicon Valley, Amazon, which is a "technical desert", was the first to develop cloud computing. In China, Ali, which is a "technical desert", created a precedent for cloud computing.

There is an inherent technical logic behind this!

Only e-commerce websites have the necessity to develop cloud computing! It's a fight to the death, you have to do it if you do it, you have to do it if you don't do it! When pushed to the limit, an astonishing combat power can erupt.

This time, Zhou Buqi was able to understand from the perspective of an expert the remarks about cloud computing made by the three giants of BAT in the previous life.

Lao Ma said that cloud computing is a big trend.

Lao Li ridiculed that cloud computing is old wine in new bottles.

Xiao Ma also disagrees, saying that cloud computing may be realized in the era of Avatar.

This is the ass decides the head.

Lao Ma sat in that position and decided that he must do cloud computing.

Wang Jian said from the bottom of his heart: "Mr. Zhou, it's not that I don't believe you, but I'm a science major, and what I believe in is logic. Ali should do cloud computing, which is an inevitable step under the derivation of technical logic. It’s like deriving a formula. As for Ziweixing… To be honest, I don’t see any point in doing cloud computing.”

Zhou Buqi said awe-inspiringly, "Doctor, you still don't know much about me. What is the significance? The biggest significance of Ziweixing's cloud computing is to drive the country's technological development, so that the domestic Internet industry will not lag behind Silicon Valley too much! Amazon cloud has already done It came out, and Google Cloud and Microsoft Cloud also started research and development. But in China, many people don’t even know what cloud computing is. How to fill this huge gap like a gap? Ziweixing is not a propagandist, Ziweixing is a pioneer official ! We use our feet instead of our mouths! We are willing to go forward and be the first to rush forward!"

Zhang Yiming sighed, "Doctor, our old Zhou's thinking structure is really very high, very high. Ali's cloud computing may be to survive. But Ziweixing's cloud computing is to become a high-tech industry in this country. a flag."

Zhou Buqi waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's a bit hypocritical to talk about the feelings of family and country. Although I really think so, it is indeed limited in persuasion. But...Dr. Well, can’t we serve Taobao? In terms of technical strength, the probability of Ziweixing’s success in cloud computing is far greater than that of Ali, right? Ziweixing has made cloud computing, and Ali can live just as well.”

Wang Jian still hesitated.

That's what it says.

But in the future, no one can say for sure, he still believes in technical logic more.

The cloud computing business is too high-end.

He is not confident that it can be done. Even if it is done, it must be a history of hardships and struggles comparable to the 25,000-mile long march. If there is no last stand, and the situation that can only advance but not retreat, it may not be possible to make it.

In cooperation with Ali, the cloud computing project must not be cut down. Even if it dies, it will die with Ali.

Cooperating with Ziweixing, if there is any accident in the future, maybe the project will be cut off.

Zhou Buqi speaks better than sings.

But Wang Jian didn't dare to treat him like a child at all. It's amazing that he has made such a great achievement at such a young age! Returning national righteousness and family and country feelings is like a news broadcast.

However, these words are not easy to say directly.

Wang Jian could only perfunctory, and said in a very embarrassed way: "Oh, resignation is also a troublesome thing! Our old Shen said that he wanted to go out for a break, and almost lost his job."

"What's the meaning?"

"In March, there was a deputy dean of the research institute who left with more than 20 senior engineers and went to Baidu. This matter had a great impact, and Bill Gates was very angry. You know, a few days ago Li Kaifu's job-hopping incident in 2010 caused Microsoft and Google to fight a lawsuit for more than a year."

Zhou Buqi blinked, "Microsoft headquarters is not allowed to lose any more talents from the research institute?"

Wang Jian nodded, "Yes, the headquarters feels that the loss of the core team this time is due to Lao Shen's lack of management ability, and it seems that he will be transferred back to the United States. If I resign, his job must be lost."

"This old Shen, is Dean Shen Xiangyang?"

"right."

This time, Zhou Buqi understood.

No wonder!

No wonder Xu Liangjie said that he was secretly contacting Shen Xiangyang and wanted to poach him. At the beginning, Zhou Buqi didn't believe it at all, thinking it was unrealistic.

After hearing Wang Jian's words, it seems that there is a good chance!

It seems that Lao Shen's life at Microsoft Research Institute is not easy!

Oops!

No, Wang Jian and his team must be packed away quickly!

Then the Microsoft headquarters was furious, and Shen Xiangyang was dismissed!

When the time comes, it will be double happiness.