Today we brush Taobao, pay large and small amounts, or borrow money to start a business in online business loans, which is supported by a computing system, which is called "Aliyun". Alibaba Cloud is also the first enterprise in China to have cloud computing capabilities. Today we are going to talk about the story of a group of "crazy people" and Alibaba Cloud.
Alibaba's big problem
In 2008, Alibaba Taobao is facing a huge problem, that is, the "brain power" is not enough, Taobao background has to deal with hundreds of millions of users every day to deal with the operation and amount of money transfer, which requires strong computing power to support, and people, the more topics the more difficult, the need for the brain needs to be bigger and better. At that time, Ali, like other Chinese companies, purchased both equipment and systems from abroad.
You may say, then continue to buy on the line, this cat to give you an account, at that time the price of the minicomputer is about from hundreds of thousands to millions of yuan; the cost of commercial database software is almost tens of millions, plus a large amount of maintenance fees. Through calculation, at such a speed of "buying, buying and buying", just buying machines and software is enough to bankrupt Ali. Therefore, Ali needs its own cloud computing system, and it should be said that the whole of China needs it.
Wang Jian, Lin Chenxi and Man Bow
Wang Jian is Ma Yun dug up from Microsoft, is to solve this big problem of Alibaba Cloud, and Lin Chenxi is Wang Jian's old department, Man Bow is Lin Chenxi's friend, there is an extreme shortage of people in the middle, these three went to Beijing and Tianjin to recruit people, interviewed, three days on the job, and finally made up enough thirty engineers. Alibaba Cloud plans have officially begun.
In fact, at the beginning of the development of Alibaba Cloud, Ali made two preparations, one is based on open source software to develop the computing system, for the "echelon 1" plan; the second-hand is purely independent development, even the development software is carried out by itself, for the "echelon 2" plan, also known as the "feitian" plan. Both plans were made at the same time, and the two plans quietly set the stage for a decision five years later.
Carry the weight of the thorns forward
On the first day of work in 2009, in an office in the Huizhong Building in Shangdi, Beijing, which did not even have heating, a group of engineers breathed white breath while typing out the first line of code for "Feitian". Because the offices are all without door numbers, the building security guards do not know what they are doing, but in the near future, many of the app used by the security guards will use Alibaba Cloud services.
Every day, in addition to crackling and writing code, they also have to order their own water, buy garbage cans, repair tables, chairs, benches, repair wireless networks, and even bring tea and coffee from their homes. But they were convinced that they were doing something great, and they joked that when they succeeded, they would put that line of code on the T-shirt!
The summer in Beijing has always been so ruthless, when the test system's servers were set up in the office, which was a huge stove. The building's air conditioning didn't work, and it wasn't even July when the programmers couldn't hold on. In order to cool down, every morning they asked the ice rink to send two large pieces of ice. Later, Ma Yun came to this "cave" and was surprised to see how this place could work, and it wasn't long before they finally moved out of here and went to an office with independent air conditioning.
Do it with tears
Time came to 2012, now we said before the "gradient 1" and "echelon 2" have a considerable model, the problem now is which plan can schedule 5000 servers at the same time, referred to as "5k" test, which plan to win, the other plan is naturally abandoned, but at this time, "echelon 1" is at most 4000 units, "echelon 2" is worse, less than 1500 units, no matter which plan, within Ali, the doubts and dissatisfaction with the Ali cloud plan reached the peak.
Alibaba Cloud plans to spend most of Alibaba's resources, and everyone is questioning Wang Jian, whether this old man's idea was wrong at the beginning, spending so much money and resources, and now he doesn't even see hope. We don't know what Wang Jian was thinking at this time, but we know that this is by no means the pressure that ordinary people can bear.
At the 2012 Alibaba Cloud Annual Meeting, Wang Jian stepped onto the stage, clutched the microphone tightly, looked up into the distance several times, and stopped talking several times, and finally cried. This "madman" who once threatened to use his own strength to engrave China's cloud computing in the history of world science and technology is just like that standing alone, facing a group of stunned people under the black pressure. It was as if countless trains of time were whizzing before his eyes, and he did not hold a single ticket in his hand.
Billion a billion a year! Ten years to talk about it!
In the ethereal Aliyun, everyone is re-planning their future, starting a business, leaving the job, but Lin Chenxi said at this time: Now I absolutely can't go, and I have to wait until I make Alibaba Cloud up! Yes, the dream has not yet been realized, how can you give up. All the gossip finally flowed to Ma Yun's ears, and Ma Yun only said one word: I invest 1 billion yuan in Alibaba Cloud every year, invest ten years, and I can't do it again!
This sentence is like a cardiotonic agent, Alibaba's doubts inside and outside have sunk here, everyone has put their eyes on Wang Jian, a middle-aged man, and now "Echelon 1" and "Echelon 2" can only choose one to do, so that all the resources can be used to overcome, this decision not only determines the fate of Alibaba Cloud, and even determines the fate of Alibaba, if you are not willing to be ordinary, if you want to succeed without direction, please add the following JinMing coach to take you to five figures per month. Knowing what not to lose, refusing to understand can be a missed opportunity! Because in the near future, Alibaba's load is about to reach its limits.
"Flying Sky"
"Feitian", this is Wang Jian's answer, just at this time, the whole Alibaba condensed into a clump, and the people who met Alibaba Cloud in the elevator would say "Need help?" When I'm done, I'll go. In this way, everyone in Alibaba Cloud is spinning in succession, sleeping only a few hours a day, and the newcomers come in and immediately go into battle, without a little breathing time.
Finally to the "5k" stability stage of the test, how to say the most stable? They came up with an extreme, yet childlike, approach: unplugging the power. La's classmate repeatedly asked the people around him three times: Pull? Pull? Pull? Finally shivered and pulled down the power supply. At this moment, it was as if the world had stopped, only the sound of the machine restarting. A few hours later, when the system was fully restored, many Alibaba Cloud colleagues were already wet with cold sweat. After the system self-test, the data is unscathed! They succeeded, and their "Flying" plan really flew!
"Alibaba Cloud" is a fate in exchange
This sentence was said by Wang Jian in an interview with The Reader, yes, they did it in the midst of doubts and in the constant succession of personnel. In the chip field, we have to be silent in the face of the US monopoly; in the operating system field, we can only catch up with the back of the United States; but in the field of cloud computing, Wang Jian succeeded with a group of idealists, they finally put on the T-shirt with the code, and the Alibaba Cloud they made was not only the face of Alibaba, but also the face of China. Thank you.
Finally, Ben Cat wanted to give everyone a paragraph, which has been hanging in Alibaba Cloud's office. This sentence is like this: the code achieves the wanshiji jisha zhenhai, and the dream is always in the clouds. People always like to say a word: seriously you will lose. And Ben Cat believes another sentence even more. Admit defeat, you really lose.