Someone asked Tan Wait (Baidu search engine architect): Looking back on your career, what is the thing that has affected you the most? Tan To say: In 2007, I entered Baidu and began an internship

Someone asked Tan Wait (Baidu search engine architect): Looking back on your career, what is the thing that has affected you the most?

Tan To say: In 2007, I entered Baidu to start an internship and joined a team that focused on cloud computing. At that time, this team gathered the best people from Baidu, and the company also gave great support.

On the one hand, as soon as I graduated, I joined a team that can be said to be the best in the country at that time, and got the guidance of many cattle people, which was very helpful for personal growth, and the most important thing was to develop a good technical literacy and way of doing things in this process, which played a foundational role in my career.

On the other hand, the project failed, it had the best team to do something like cloud computing that was in line with the technology trends, but it failed in the end. It can be said that if it succeeds, then it has not touched me so much.

I often review the reasons for its failure, and one of the biggest reasons is that it didn't keep pace with the development of the product.

It's a technology-based project, but it's ultimately about serving a business and a product. However, at the beginning of the design of this project, it was out of step with the product, and its development plan did not fit the development plan of the product very well. Therefore, although its technology is excellent and the results achieved are good, the product cannot wait for it to produce results and programs, and finally uses other programs. For this project, it was a failure.

As we all know, technology should combine the development of business and products, but as the old saying goes, it is easier said than done, and it is difficult to know and know, and it is difficult to achieve the unity of knowledge and action. Many technical personnel, in the process of implementation, will unconsciously pursue the most cutting-edge technology, will naturally think about the problem from their own point of view, and forget to consider the needs and pace of the product, which eventually leads to a disconnect between the two.

On the one hand, it has helped me cultivate a very good technical literacy, so that I know how to look forward and look far when doing technical planning; on the other hand, it also reminds me that you can stand very high and see far, but every step you take, you must be grounded, step on the rhythm of the business side.