Some time ago, I chatted with a few friends about the development of Cloud computing in China in the past ten years, and mentioned Xu Shiwei, ceo of Qiniu Cloud, saying that we are still old friends. However, the acquaintance with Lao Xu has to go back to 2009.
At that time, I was still considering joining Shanda Innovation Institute and decided to see it for myself. That day, on the "rail commuter car" of the Shanda Innovation Institute leading to No. 68 Huatuo Road, I met a shy young man carrying a backpack, and it took half a day to touch the body before he felt the coin as the fare, I think, he must be engaged in IT.
After I officially joined shanda innovation institute and dealt with Lao Xu a lot, I found that he was not just "WPS 2005 chief architect".
What impressed me the most was the pragmatic spirit of Lao Xu and the forward-looking vision of technology.
Late one night, I was arguing with a C++ friend about a C++ issue. Although I don't do C++ development, I'm sure I'm not wrong with this problem, but I can't say it. I had no choice but to ask Lao Xu for help, hoping that he would help me "take a breath.".
Who knows that after Lao Xu listened, he did not care about the friendship of colleagues at all, but pointed out that I was wrong, and the knowledge was not updated enough. I was depressed about the old Xu "elbow outward", but he did not notice at all, but he did not bother to tell me the ins and outs of this matter, and gave me a lot of reference materials to make sure I figured it out. By the time I closed the computer, it was already more than one o'clock in the morning...
In fact, although Lao Xu has done development for many years, he has always maintained a very good forward-looking habit. Shortly after Golang was born, he spent time studying, and vigorously introduced and promoted. It can be said that Golang can have today's development in China, and in the early days, Lao Xu was indispensable.
Lao Xu is also famous in the circle as approachable, no shelf.
At that time, Lao Xu led the team to work on the storage project, and later packaged an Everbox network disk project for end customers. Although I am not a member of the project team, I am also curious to know the situation of the project, so I proposed to Lao Xu that I could not attend their morning meeting. Unexpectedly, he agreed without any scruples - you know, many technicians can't let go of this point, and they are always worried that some problems will be looked down upon.
Later, I did attend the morning meeting for a while and gave their team some advice. On several occasions, the recommendations have really been seriously discussed and adopted.
Although in the technology industry, there are many people who are thinner and thinner the face is the longer the technology is done, the larger the shelf, and the first reaction to encountering different opinions is "Who are you, is it your turn to speak?" ”。 Lao Xu was different, the longer his technique was done, the more he could sink down and listen to people's opinions.
Lao Xu's management standards and respect for the laws of software development are also a point that impresses me.
Although I was not involved in the development of the Everbox project, I basically attended the morning meeting in the early stages. I found that Lao Xu would really spend a lot of time doing design, without the helplessness of "it should indeed be carefully designed, but there was no time" that was circulating in the industry.
I remember doing architecture and API design for the first three or four weeks and making sure everyone had a consistent understanding of the field. Although I knew this methodology before, it was the first time I had seen it in a team of more than 20 people.
Another thing that impressed me was that Lao Xu stipulated from the beginning that all third-party libraries were maintained by special personnel, and all dependencies must be centrally controlled. Although I knew before that this aspect was prone to problems, it was the first time I had seen it clearly from the beginning. Later, when I left my job, I found that many companies still retained the barbaric habit of "daring to use the next library from the Internet", and the problems emerged endlessly.
So it is not surprising that Lao Xu became the chief architect of WPS within 2 years of graduation and led the architectural design and development of WPS for 3 years.
In 2011, Lao Xu created Qiniuyun, who personally designed the architecture and wrote a lot of core code. He is not a traditional CEO, the entrepreneur is just his identity, I think Lao Xu has always been a technical person in his bones, he really loves programming, and he takes pleasure in it.
Therefore, when I learned that he had launched a column entitled "Xu Shiwei's Architecture Class", my first reaction was that it was too rare. It can be said that he is one of the few people who can clearly explain the "architecture", and an architect with qualifications and backgrounds like Lao Xu is so willing to export, probably a simple spirit of sharing.
When I first went on, I chased after the update and watched it again, and recently it was in the second brush. If you summarize this column in four words, I think it is: from a high position - both architectural views and methodologies, combined with The accumulation of Lao Xu's 20 years of experience, it can be said that it begins with the architecture and is higher than the architecture.
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Many articles in the column make me feel that it is worth the "ticket price" of the entire column, and it can no longer be summed up in the word "harvest". I feel very lucky to have encountered this class in the middle of my career, and I am really grateful to Lao Xu.
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This column, in Lao Xu's own words, is the first time he has fully and systematically shared his 20 years of architectural experience and thinking.
When I first went online, I remembered that the propaganda was 60 lectures, and as a result, Lao Xu wrote 89 lectures beyond expectations, which was also very distracting. Its organizational logic is completely different from the architecture books and courses we usually see, and Lao Xu wants to take us to build a macro perspective of understanding software architecture and return to the origin of information to think about the problem.
In this process, he started from infrastructure, gradually transitioned to business architecture, and finally completed a complete application design process, including basic platform, desktop platform, server-side development, service governance, architecture thinking, and software engineering, which not only explained the architectural paradigm of common business scenarios, but also their application in engineering practice.
From the examples in the column, you can see Lao Xu's skill, thinking of the sentence "Things will not be solved at the level of problems, only if they rise to a higher level will they be solved", Lao Xu teaches not only moves, but also a mood. Only those who really stand on a high place and control the overall situation can explain in such a simple and easy-to-understand way, just as the so-called road is simple, and there is a sense of transparency after reading it.
Before posting the article to read, this class has been 67,000+ people to learn, even the quality of comments are very high, see everyone in the message area to discuss the problem can learn a lot, casually cut some for your reference:
Whether you're an architect or a programmer who wants to become an architect, you can gain a lot more than you pay for with this column.
Before, I also wrote an article about him, in the comment area to see a few comments are very interesting, share with you to see:
However, it is such a legendary person, and in the propaganda of the column, there is no mention of such inflammatory words as "billion level" and "ten billion level", although his seven bull clouds have already reached such a level, which shows the simplicity of the old Xu people.
All I can say is that finding a life mentor to show you the way forward is a very fortunate thing, enough to kick you on the "fast track" of growth.
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Before reading an interview with Lao Xu, he said such a paragraph: The choice is related to the symmetry of the information. The less you know about something, the more you tend to choose a conservative approach, and when you know a certain area well enough, your decision-making process will be very natural.
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