Chapter 710 Ziwei Engineering Institute

Zhang Yiming continued to brainwash.

When the amount of data on the website increases, it is not enough to have a distributed database reading system, and a more complex distributed server cluster is required.

However, even with a distributed cluster, the speed is still very slow.

This requires distributed caching technology and distributed web page block loading technology.

Zhou Buqi blinked, "Haven't these two projects been done before? Three of them were approved at once."

Zhang Yiming said: "Yes, the distributed cache is the project applied by Micropoint Search, and the distributed webpage block loading technology is the project applied by Friends.com. The other is the distributed rendering of Micropoint browser."

Zhou Buqi nodded.

With distributed technology, it seems that the entire company's website architecture system will change.

Zhang Yiming added: "Besides, a big tree attracts the wind. As the scale of the website becomes larger and larger, we need a strong security team to ensure that the website can be well defended when it is attacked, and to prevent spam, malicious advertisements and Dissemination of malicious programs."

"Need a distributed firewall?"

"right."

"Is it being done at the R\u0026D center?"

"Yes, that's what I mean. The R\u0026D center is indeed working on some technologies, such as distributed storage and distributed reading, which are all aimed at databases. Yang Zhenkun is leading the work. But there are still many projects that are not related to databases enough. Closely, there must be another team to do it in a unified way.”

"Unite?"

Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows, and immediately grasped his words.

Zhang Yiming sighed and said: "Some time ago you approved 100 million and passed three projects. But I greatly underestimated the difficulty of the project. Although distributed papers are published one after another abroad, even the master-slave relationship The basic model has been proposed, but it is not popular enough. All articles are in English. Domestic programmers do not have enough understanding of distributed. It is very difficult to recruit.”

"So we need to concentrate on doing big things?"

"Well, it can only be like this. Integrate all distributed projects, find a technical leader, and let a dedicated team do it. At the beginning, it may be necessary to train new engineers before getting started."

Zhang Yiming is delegating power.

Purely for the benefit of the company.

Take the initiative to release the distributed projects of Youyou.com, gather superior forces, and make better use of company resources to do this. Instead of fighting each other, causing serious waste.

Zhou Buqi pondered for a moment, "How is Cheng Binghao's level?"

"Very high!"

"Does he understand distribution?"

"Of course, he is the chief technology officer! At the headquarters, he is the one who leads senior technicians to learn foreign cutting-edge technologies, including distributed technology. I have many questions that I don't understand, and I will ask him."

Zhang Yiming turned his head with a look of surprise, as if he couldn't understand why he asked such a question.

Zhou Buqi was a little helpless.

I said in my heart that it wasn't that I was suspicious, that Cheng Binghao didn't even go to university, he was a high school graduate, and his improvement of personal level was all through self-study. In the past, the company was small in scale and technically difficult, so he must be competent as a CTO.

But now that Ziweixing's scale is getting bigger and bigger, and the technical difficulty is getting higher and higher, his level may not be able to do it.

Zhou Buqi asked: "Cheng Binghao and Xu Liangjie, who is more skilled?"

Zhang Yiming said, "That must be Xu Liangjie."

Zhou Buqi asked again: "Then do you think Cheng Binghao can be responsible for these things?"

Zhang Yiming smiled and said, "Yes, it must be him, unless Yang Zhenkun is called over. But I heard that Yang Zhenkun's management level...is not very high, he is a technical talent."

Cheng Binghao is the chief technology officer. He is leading many high-end algorithm projects of Ziwei Star. He is in charge of six or seven research and development projects, such as recommendation algorithm, crawler algorithm, search algorithm, uncertainty algorithm, data processing algorithm and so on.

These algorithms are not oriented to a certain department.

Instead, it is aimed at all business groups under Ziwei Star, including Youyou.com, Weidian Search, Xiaonei.com, and even Jobseeker.com, Embarrassing Encyclopedia, and Weidian Security Center.

The pattern is clear.

It is in line with the corporate structure of "big research and development, small skin".

Business groups such as Youyou.com, Weidian, and Xiaonei.com are equivalent to "small skins", and these technical business projects that Cheng Binghao is in charge of are "big research and development", which is a research and development headquarters that provides advanced technical algorithms.

If several projects of the distributed system are assigned to Cheng Binghao, then the attribute of "big research and development" will become more obvious.

Zhou Buqi's thinking immediately diverged, thinking of a higher level.

It's not that his level is higher than Zhang Yiming's, but because the positions of the two sides are different. In many cases, the butt determines the head.

For example, in the internal training class of Ziwei Lecture Hall, He Yang talked about it many times, how to promote subordinates?

In fact, it is very simple, just boldly put him in a higher position.

In the lower positions, the ability he displayed does not seem to be able to control the higher positions. But as long as it is put up, with a higher position vision, the way of thinking will change.

Zhou Buqi said: "If this is the case, I think it is possible to set up a new department—Ziweixing Engineering Institute, and let Cheng Binghao concurrently serve as the first dean."

Engineering institutes are different from R\u0026D institutes.

The R\u0026D Institute is like a blind man trying to figure out an elephant, and a fish in troubled waters. I don't know anything, I rush up like a bet, what to do, how to do it... everything has no clue, and the probability of failure is extremely high. This is an exploration of future commercial applications through technological exploration.

The probability of failure of engineering institutes is very low, and what they do is project engineering. There is a need first, and then the project is started. It is an exploration of current commercial applications, and it is a plug-and-play product.

It was the "little skin" that submitted the technical requirements, and then the Engineering Institute did related product research and development according to the front-end requirements. It is equivalent to Ziweixing's "big R\u0026D" headquarters.

Zhang Yiming immediately understood what he meant, and was a little surprised, "You mean to hand over all the general product algorithms to this engineering institute?"

Zhou Buqi shook his head, "It has already been concluded before that the strategy of 'big research and development, small skin' is too aggressive. Even if it is going to be done, it must be done slowly, step by step. Ziweixing Engineering Institute is an attempt. No All global technical products are handed over to the Academy of Engineering, but some high-end technical algorithms are uniformly handed over to the Academy of Engineering, such as distributed algorithms, calculation algorithms, and data processing algorithms. Some small functions and small technologies are still maintained. , don't make a big move."

"this……"

Zhang Yiming hesitated slightly.

Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows, "What's wrong?"

Zhang Yiming coughed lightly, a little embarrassed, "If this engineering institute is established, all the high-end algorithm products of Ziweixing will be placed here, and Cheng Binghao will be the leader... the workload is not small, and the technical directions involved are too many and complicated. I feel...he may not be able to do it."

Zhou Buqi twitched the corner of his mouth, and said airily, "Didn't you say that he is competent?"

Zhang Yiming said: "I said that he is capable of bringing together the distribution. If you want to build such a centralized engineering institute, it will involve too much. The current model is that Cheng Binghao is in charge of part of the high-end technology. Some are led by Xu Liangjie, and some are distributed to various business groups. Cheng Binghao is best at search-related algorithms, and he is good at data processing, crawler algorithms, and distribution, but not necessarily others."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Let's go step by step, first put some advanced algorithms that Cheng Binghao is good at in the Academy of Engineering. Then slowly put all the advanced algorithms in, and then gradually put the low-end, general-purpose The technical products are also let go. Practice the strategy of 'big research and development'."

Zhang Yiming blinked, suddenly thought of something, lowered his voice, "I heard that Xu Liangjie is going to do something big? He wants to poach Shen Xiangyang?"

"There is such a plan."

"Dug him here, what are you doing?"

"Ziweixing Research and Development Institute focuses on the general direction of artificial intelligence. I heard that Silicon Valley has been doing it for many years, and there are many laggards in China."

Zhang Yiming agreed deeply, "Well, this direction is very good. However, he is the dean of the Microsoft R\u0026D Institute. Isn't it a bit overkill for us to recruit him to be the dean of Ziweixing R\u0026D Institute?"

"Um?"

"How big is the Microsoft Asia R\u0026D Institute? China, Japan, and South Korea all have R\u0026D centers with thousands of R\u0026D personnel. Our Ziweixing R\u0026D Institute is still an empty shell. It may not be so attractive."

Zhou Buqi didn't think so, he was full of confidence, "Don't you think Ziwei Star has become the backbone of the nation in the Internet industry? Ideals are the most attractive."

Zhang Yiming smiled and said: "That's what you say, but you can't always draw big cakes, and the actual benefits should be given more. In my opinion... If you can really recruit him, you can let him be the dean of the two academies. We will develop it later. The scale of the Academy and the Academy of Engineering has become larger, and the workload has exceeded the standard, so I will resign."

"Let's talk about it later!"

Zhou Buqi waved his hand.

The interests involved, corporate management structure, organizational appointments, business and technical allocation... are very complicated. It must be approved by the decision-making committee, and only by one mind can it be strongly promoted.

Otherwise, just because Boss Zhou made the decision, and the executives under him didn't agree with it deep down, the policy would not be able to be pushed forward, and it would become a dead letter.

For example, Boss Li of Baidu has repeatedly stated that he will restrict medical advertisements, and he also made a strong promise that Baidu not only does not advertise fake medicines, but also does not advertise real medicines!

But the decision has been made, and it can't be pushed at all.

The senior executives under him all need KPI assessment.

So many profitable projects have been cut off, and the KPIs of the executives are not up to the standard, what should I do? What if the stock price collapses? Whose responsibility is this?

If interests are higher than corporate culture, this kind of thing will definitely happen.

In this regard, Ali is the best. For example, Boss Ma once recruited an investment expert to serve as Ali’s vice president in charge of investment. After a few years, the investment was a great success and made a lot of money.

But Boss Ma always criticized him, but he couldn't take it anymore and fired him.

Because in Boss Ma’s view, Ali’s investment behavior must be in line with Ali’s strategy and corporate culture. Investing to make money is what capital does, not Ali's mission.

As a result, people from the outside world often criticize Ali, saying that Ali’s investment has failed. On the other hand, the investment effect of its competitor Penguin is very significant. It has made a lot of money and has changed from a technology company to an investment company. The reason is that the companies behind them have different pursuits.