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If you are not a householder, you don’t know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are.

Zhou Buqi and Cheng Binghao could no longer stand and talk without pain in their backs.

What kind of environment attracts what kind of talents.

Jingdong's technical foundation is too weak. Liu Qiangdong also wants to find a few super experts to quickly lead Jingdong to complete the technological industry upgrade, but...at that level of experts, demand exceeds supply in the market. Worry about finding a job.

Companies like JD.com are really unattractive.

Liu Qiangdong had no choice but to finally find the technical vice president of Oracle Greater China. With the promise of a high position and a generous salary, he was directly promoted to the third level to become the CTO of JD.com.

The person Ziweixing looks down on is a technical master on JD.com.

Cheng Binghao still seemed to be unaware, and persuaded: "Ziweixing Engineering Institute is the best outsourcing organization for high-end IT projects in China. It has cooperated with JD.com so many times, isn't it quite successful? I'm not afraid to brag to you. In this country, In the Internet market, Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM are not good, and the outsourcing projects they provide are not as good as Ziweixing Engineering Institute!"

Zhou Buqi said: "When have you ever heard that Internet giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook look for high-end outsourcing services from outside? Not only do they not purchase them, they often open source their own high-end projects. Because IBM, Oracle The technical level of outsourcing vendors such as Microsoft and Microsoft is far inferior to them!"

Cheng Binghao coughed slightly and added: "You can't say that. To be precise, the Internet technology level of these three outsourcing giants is not as good as that of Internet giants like Google and Amazon. There are specializations in the technical industry. If it is software , especially in the B-side business, giants such as Oracle, IBM, SAP, and Microsoft are still very powerful, stronger than Internet companies."

Zhou Buqi nodded and continued: "Ziweixing is on the same level as Google, Facebook, and Amazon. In the field of Internet technology, it is stronger than Microsoft and Oracle combined. I am very surprised. We obviously have it ourselves." Why should we buy the best technical services from outsiders at high prices?”

Cheng Binghao seconded: "That's right. With Ziweixing's level of strength, we can't grab the 12306 bid. Could it be that we can't even grab JD.com's bid? This is so unreasonable."

When the conversation came to this point, Liu Qiangdong could only tell the truth with an embarrassed face: "He works at Oracle. If you want to poach him, you can only buy Oracle's system."

"I go!"

Zhou Buqi really didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Also, only technicians can make the big boss of the company so frustrated.

Cheng Binghao was also speechless, "Is there a kickback?"

Liu Qiangdong said: "It's not a kickback. As you just said, the technical vice president of Oracle China is definitely not a front-line technical talent. After joining JD.com, if he wants to make results as soon as possible to prove himself, The best way to do it well is to work on the framework of the Oracle system that he is familiar with."

"Stop it now!" Zhou Buqi waved his hand, and then looked at Lao Cheng, "How about Ziweixing sending someone to be the CTO of Jingdong?"

"This..." Cheng Binghao was a little embarrassed, "Of course there is no problem with the company, it just depends on personal wishes."

If there are career development prospects in Ziweixing, who would be willing to join JD.com?

Zhou Buqi said: "It's nothing more than confidence."

"Yes, I have full confidence in Ziweixing, and I have full confidence in JD.com..." Cheng Binghao glanced at Liu Qiangdong sheepishly, "I am a little worried."

Liu Qiangdong was very angry and said self-deprecatingly: "That's how it is. In the past few years, JD.com has indeed lagged far behind in technological development."

Zhou Buqi said straightforwardly: "Old Cheng, let me name you. Who is suitable? If you don't understand the situation, call Dr. Wang Jian now."

In addition to being the dean of Ziweixing Engineering Academy, Cheng Binghao is also the vice chairman of the technical committee. He knows all the technical experts of Ziweixing very well, "You know, Abraham, the CTO of Xiaonei.com, is very good. Group buying on campus He restructured it."

"Who?" Zhou Buqi was slightly startled, "Foreigner?"

Cheng Binghao said with a smile: "No, he returned from studying in the United States. He is in his early thirties this year. His Chinese name seems to be Dong Quan or Dong Qun. Everyone is accustomed to calling him by his English name."

"Dong Quan?" Zhou Buqi remembered this name. He was one of only three master's students who worked part-time on the school network back then. "Did he graduate from BIT and work part-time on the school network in the early days?"

Cheng Binghao thought for a moment and then suddenly said: "It seems true. No wonder he became the CTO within two years of joining the school network and joined the technical committee. He turned out to be a veteran."

Now, Ziweixing has been established for 6 years.

Many of the early college students who worked part-time on campus have returned from studying abroad and officially joined Ziweixing in another capacity. This can be regarded as a kind of genetic inheritance.

Today's Xiaonei network has not been moved to Ziweixing's headquarters campus, but is still located on the university campus.

The headquarters of Xiaonei.com is located in the Sohu Building in Tsinghua Science and Technology Park, and it targets the majority of Tsinghua students. The branch at Beike has not been cancelled, and part-time jobs are still provided to college students on the Beike, BIT, and Beihang campuses every year.

Xiaonei Network has an extremely important strategic positioning in Ziweixing, and it often represents the continuation of talents.

Zhou Buqi said: "That's easy, Lao Cheng. You go back and talk to Dong Quan to see if he is willing to come to JD.com to be CTO. Just like what I said, JD.com's future is full of hope. Becoming CTO of JD.com The honor is not much worse than the honor of being CTO at Ziweixing!"

"ah?"

Cheng Binghao's expression changed slightly, feeling that he was exaggerating too much.

Liu Qiangdong blushed, but he was quite honest, "No, just tell the truth, don't lie."

"Who lied?" Zhou Buqi was a little funny, "I'm just optimistic about JD.com's future! Lao Cheng, just repeat what I said. If he doesn't believe it, just call me and I'll tell him. If he If you still don’t agree, then look for someone else and see which technical executive from Friends.com or Toutiao is willing to come over.”

Cheng Binghao said dumbfounded: "You've said so, how can Abraham refuse? Okay, I'll tell him when I get back!"

Zhou Buqi looked at Lao Liu, "How about it? Can we cooperate with Ziweixing's Engineering Academy now?"

"good!"

Liu Qiangdong nodded.

Zhou Buqi said: "The outsourcing industry for high-end IT projects cannot always rely on foreigners. Ziweixing needs the support of domestic peers to do this business better. Dangdang's current architecture is also .NET, right?"

"It seems that this architectural model saves money, and the couple will be able to get through it."

"Where's Yi Xun? Where's Suning?"

"They should be similar..." Liu Qiangdong hesitated, "Yixun must be .NET. In the past few years, small companies have generally adopted this kind of architecture, which can reduce the initial startup costs. Suning is not sure. Suning is transforming, not starting a business. It has a big business and a lot of money. It is said that it wants to cooperate with IBM and make a big deal. It is very ambitious."

"IBM?" Zhou Buqi curled his lips, "Lao Cheng, try your best to get Suni's order! IBM knows nothing about e-commerce. You have a template for on-campus group buying. From here, give Isn’t it easy to transform Suning’s e-commerce platform?”

"I have the same idea. After JD.com is solved, Suning will be the next step." Cheng Binghao joked, "If we can't reach an agreement then, you still have to go out and persuade Mr. Zhang of Suning."

Zhou Buqi said decisively: "Okay, that's it. Lao Liu, what do you think about the financing?"

"There is great financial pressure. The fiercely competitive market requires price wars, technological innovation, and increased deployment in the logistics industry. The overall investment is not low."

"$300 million, how about that?"

"Can."

Liu Qiangdong is not ambiguous at all and has great ambitions.

Zhou Buqi said: "Okay, then it will be 300 million US dollars, diluting 20% ​​of the shares... Do you have any committed investment institutions over there?"

"No."

With Ziweixing on his back, Liu Qiangdong has never cared about money.

Zhou Buqi stood up and planned to leave, "Okay, I'll take care of the money. It's time to introduce some American investment institutions to prepare for future listings."

…

On the way back, Zhou Buqi and Cheng Binghao were still in the same car.

Zhou Buqi asked: "Does Dangdang need to change it?"

Cheng Binghao said: "If Dangdang gets better and better, the structure must be improved like JD.com. If Dangdang's performance fails and declines after it goes public, there is actually no need to change. If the traffic is not high, the current structure is sufficient."

Then, further explanations were given.

The impact of website architecture on e-commerce platforms mainly lies in three aspects: reliability, unit cost, and whether it is suitable for future development.

The most basic of these is reliability.

Reliability refers to the proportion of websites that can be opened normally. For first-line e-commerce platforms such as Dangdang and JD.com, the stability must reach 99.99%.

However, this is not enough.

99.99%, in fact, there is an error rate of 1 in 10,000.

This means that if the website's traffic is 1 million a day, 100 clicks will fail, the web page cannot be opened, the order submission fails, or the payment fails.

If it is a Japanese website, or a restricted website, this stability rate is already very, very high, and I am very satisfied. But e-commerce is not good. E-commerce is related to payment and needs to develop towards financial-level requirements.

Cheng Binghao said: "Nowadays, everyone is trying to figure out how many nines there are after the decimal point. Today's large websites are building open framework structures. The more open they are, the higher the failure rate. Just like the Android system has more problems than the iOS system Same. This puts forward higher technical requirements for the stability of the e-commerce website, which is not as simple as operating a .NET website. JD.com’s technical department needs to undergo a complete overhaul.”

Zhou Buqi said: "JD.com has been in the Internet business for so many years, and it is still so uncomfortable. You can imagine how much trouble Suning will encounter when it transforms into an online platform."

Cheng Binghao said with a smile: "Suning is much worse than JD.com. JD.com's technical level is too low, and Suning has none. If we can win over Suning, maybe... it's possible... maybe we can become the largest company in the history of Ziweixing Engineering Institute An order.”