MTL - Internet 2010-Chapter 32 WeChat idea

Lu Zhou opened a blank document, and after thinking for a while, he named the title "WeChat Vision".

He deduced various possibilities of development in his mind, and he assumed a major premise: that before the release of Penguin Prestige, the channels of the banana market can be quickly spread out, and the user level of no less than 10 million can be obtained. The distribution channel of WeChat, coupled with the advantages of its own rebirth, can barely offset the hundreds of millions of users of Penguin itself.

To meet this premise, Luzhou needs to lead the team to quickly complete the development of the banana market, and quickly promote the installation and promotion of the banana market, and try to complete a round of enclosure before the completion of WeChat development as much as possible.

Of course, the tens of millions of users in this major premise is just an assumption.

Although the Android system has released version 2.1, it is still not the most mature version, and domestic mobile phone manufacturers are still in the stage of development and adaptation, and have not officially entered the field of Android mobile phones, so the users of Android mobile phones have not imagined so many.

Even after the banana market satisfies this major premise, Luzhou still needs to face many problems in developing WeChat.

The first is the most direct cost - server resources. The number of users of Penguin Prestige has grown rapidly to 100 million within one year after its release. During this year, Penguin Telecom's bandwidth and server hosting expenses have increased by nearly 700 million yuan compared with the previous year. Part of this is due to the increase in server resources brought about by the expansion of the number of Prestige users.

At the moment, Lu Zhou still has to wait for one million to sell his scarf to send money. Seven hundred million is undoubtedly an astronomical figure.

Moreover, since the launch, this application still needs to expand the market by eating hundreds of millions or even more than one billion dollars every year, let alone two or three years.

Even if you introduce venture capital, you still need a larger user scale before others are willing to spend money for you to develop.

Maybe Luzhou can compress the scale of server erection in the early stage, but it will explode in the future sooner or later. Instead of passively changing, it is better to prepare everything in advance. After all, even Luzhou does not know how much impact his butterfly will have.

Lu Zhou remembered the pain of the penguin's earliest development, "I understand that when Pony was a penguin, every time a drip sounded in the background, I was shocked. This thing eats how much money for a house every day."

Then, the question after money and server resources—the question of server management.

Even if WeChat discounts the initial deployment volume, Luzhou still needs thousands of servers to support the corresponding business. These servers need to be deployed at least in several major cities in China and face huge operation and maintenance pressure.

Social applications have microservices with a large number of functional modules. The daily average request and the peak value drop are extremely large, which may be several times. It is inevitable to be equipped with a resource scheduling and overload control system, and to realize the automation of services.

Simply put, it is impossible for people to manage so many machines, and a software system is required to automatically manage and schedule server resources.

Luzhou needs to promote technical exploration and practice in cloud computing, pull up an operation and maintenance team and cloud computing development team, and quickly realize a commercial management platform.

Next, the development of the background program of the application itself.

From the message model, the data synchronization protocol, to the three-layer architecture of access, logic and storage, it is obviously impossible to make it from scratch by relying on the road boat alone.

In the entire Dream Valley team, perhaps Fang Qiang can keep up with the rhythm of Luzhou. Others can follow the needs of Dream Valley advertising and banana market step by step, but if they do this, they lack a lot of ability.

Luzhou needs to rebuild a development team to support the regular development of WeChat.

In addition to regular development, there are two directions for Luzhou to list them, one is payment, and the other is cutting-edge research.

The first is the issue of cutting-edge research. After all, if it involves algorithms or from cutting-edge theory to practical fields, even Lu Zhou himself does not dare to promise that he has the ability to realize it.

For example, the memory cloud PaxosStore developed by Penguin Prestige later, its theoretical basis comes from the article "The Part-Time Parliament" published by computer scientist Leslie Lamport in 1990. There is a huge gap between the derivation of mathematical proof and the writing of actual code, even if In the previous life, Lu Zhou had studied the class library that Penguin later open-sourced, and it was impossible for it to be fully realized.

Therefore, Lu Zhou needs to pull up another research team with high-level scientific research capabilities.

Since you want to be a penguin, you have to think about how to lead to the end from the beginning, and it is impossible to achieve it. How can you be the first? How to support a giant application with a peak daily request of up to trillions in the future.

Then there is the payment method. Around the WeChat ecosystem, Luzhou will need to have its own payment application in the future.

At present, the payment methods of corporate bank transfer and Alipay are adopted in the Dream Valley market. The money transactions of advertisers generally use bank-to-public transfer, while Alipay mainly facilitates the income and expenditure of developers. In a short time, there is no need to use their own demand for payment channels. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

However, if the idea of ​​WeChat is put on the agenda, then you must have your own payment channel. In the future development of WeChat, there will be a large number of usage scenarios that require payment behavior. Giving the payment channel to others is tantamount to handing over your back. to the enemy.

For the establishment of payment channels, one is qualification and money, and the other is the development team of the financial-level system.

"The scalp is numb, and the scalp is numb. That is to make tens of billions of dollars every year, and the penguin dad who has someone, money, technology, and users can afford it. I want money but no money, I want people and no one, and I want technology and technology. not home."

After Lu Zhou sighed, he finally sorted out the ideas and wrote them down on the document after removing some future joints.

After writing a paragraph, he muttered to himself, "The manpower in Dream Valley advertising and banana market can't be moved, and now the tasks are barely enough. I have to go to Vancouver to pull a cloud computing team. WeChat's routine The development team may actually only have the batch of graduates in June. It is estimated that Fang Qiang will have to come in after the situation. The research team is a trouble, and my own shortcomings are too big. I have to talk to Dean Zhang to see if I can Can't recommend anyone. Payment channels, no clue."

At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, Lu Zhou finished writing the last paragraph.

"Huh. That's it, that's the only way to do it. If you write more, there will be empty talk. Tomorrow, there will be Dream Valley Advertising 2.0, the back-end program of the banana market, and the banana server. I have to go to Yuan Haizhou... ..."

During the Qingming holiday, there was the loan at home, plus the old affairs of Chen and his family, and the various feelings of interacting with Ye Qingchen, Lu Zhou had almost let himself empty in the past few days, and when he returned to work, countless Things kept bubbling up.

"Sleep and sleep, the dog's life matters."