IOE means IBM's servers, Oracle's databases, and EMC's storage devices. They are all the top equipment vendors in the world and also have the highest prices.

General websites do not need to be of high quality.

But when it comes to financial transactions, you can't be careless. For example, in the banking industry, almost all banks around the world adopt the ioe architecture, which is the most stable, safest and most reliable.

For online shopping platforms like Taobao, you must use the best.

Even part of the business of Friends.com is the same.

NIC rents 20,000 servers in its data center and allocates 5,000 servers to Friends.com, which is enough. But there is one business that is not working - Taobao's preferred channel.

The equipment in the data center is very popular and low-end, so it is not suitable for online shopping.

So at the headquarters, Ziweixing also has a server room with about 1,000 servers, all of which are top-notch equipment, to operate Taobao channels and on-campus group purchases.

However, this is a solution of "the technology is not enough, the equipment must be made up".

After the gold coin wallet system is completed and the business is in place, you can abandon ioe and use some low-end equipment to complete high-end services. This is not only a technical issue, but also a creative issue.

The technical principle it relies on is to use distributed powerful data processing capabilities to perform multi-party calculations through a larger amount of data...

For example, Musk’s space rocket.

Traditional Chinese, Russian, European and American rockets use chips that cost more than millions of dollars and are even more high-end than military chips. Because there is particle radiation in space, after the rocket goes into space, the chips may mutate when exposed to radiation, causing calculation errors and leading to

The satellite did not enter the expected orbit. Therefore, the chip must be made of special materials and have special protection.

Musk is different. He directly installs civilian chips in his rockets, and the price is only US$100, which directly reduces the cost by tens of thousands of times.

The method is the same as the distributed principle.

Build three civilian chips in the rocket and connect them in parallel. Each calculation result must be calculated by three parties at the same time and the results must be given at the same time.

If the results of the three parties are the same, execute; if the results are different, feed back and recalculate until the results of the three parties are unified.

Even if radiation mutates the chip, the probability that all three chips will mutate is very small; even if all three chips mutate, it is almost impossible to give the same result.

Through this method, low-end equipment is used to achieve a breakthrough in high-end technology.

This is typical Internet thinking, which is completely different from that of traditional rocket experts. Distributed logic has been broken in the Internet, and traditional rocket experts are still making super high-precision radiation-proof chips.

For Taobao, including on-campus group buying and gold coin wallet systems, the current difficulty is that big data technology is not mature enough and the coordination of distributed algorithms is not unified enough.

The only way to make up for the technical shortcomings is through high-end equipment.

In this field, Ziweixing is at the forefront of the world, just a little behind Amazon. Amazon no longer needs high-end equipment like IOE, but eBay and PayPal do.

but……

Zhou Buqi is a bit strange.

Did this old man call himself out for tea just to talk about this? He couldn't have found another expert and had the idea of ​​​​doing cloud computing, right?

Boss Ma coughed lightly and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, I really admire you!"

"Yeah?"

Zhou Buqi smiled, knowing that there was something in his words, and he was very defensive, fearing that he would fool him.

Boss Ma sighed with emotion: "You are really successful in everything you do, including school network, friend network, anti-virus software, micro-search, and recently even outsourcing services. By the way, how many transactions have you made with your page loading system?"

Already?"

Zhou Buqi thought for a moment and said, "Less than 70 sets."

Boss Ma opened his eyes wide and was really shocked, "Sales of more than 200 million?"

"right."

"Fuck! Damn it!"

"Lao Ma, what do you mean by this? Pay attention to your quality!"

Zhou Buqi was amused by him.

Boss Ma took a deep breath and said, "Your business... is so irritating. You have taken all the good things."

Zhou Buqi laughed loudly, "Luck, good luck. Who would have thought that a system developed casually would be so popular, opening up the high-end outsourcing market all at once."

Boss Ma said: "When your outsourcing business is done well, it will be no worse than Alibaba's B2B business."

"It's over, it's over."

"Sure enough, selling technology is more profitable than selling products. You kid, you are incredible, a genius!"

"Okay, Lao Ma." Zhou Buqi stayed calm to avoid being flattered by him, "Don't go around telling me what's going on?"

Boss Ma sighed, "Ziweixing is doing really well! Alibaba Software has been doing it for a long time, but it can't continue. It's a good thing for you, just launch a new business and it can become the focus of the industry. Your Today's Toutiao,

It’s amazing!”

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Either you have a good eye. Taobao is the first advertiser of Toutiao. As Toutiao has just started, it is not well-known and there are not many advertisers, Taobao has taken the lead."

What a bargain."

"yes."

Boss Ma admitted it frankly.

That's why he came here today.

Baidu has officially announced that it is going to be an e-commerce company, and Li Yanhong publicly made harsh words to overthrow Taobao within three years! Starting next year, Taobao and Baidu will officially break up and block each other.

For Taobao, it will lose a large source of traffic.

However, in the past month, Taobao’s statistics have been astonishing.

In the past month, the traffic imported to Taobao through Toutiao was only 31% less than the traffic imported to Taobao through Baidu! And more importantly, the traffic imported from Toutiao has shown an increasing trend.

According to Taobao's internal calculations, at the current growth rate, within a year, Toutiao's traffic to Taobao may be equal to that of Baidu.

In other words, after Taobao broke up with Baidu, there was another traffic substitute - Toutiao.

Combined with Weidian and Friends.com, Taobao has no shortage of traffic at all!

There is no need to be afraid of the menacing Baidu!

The purpose of coming here this time is to strengthen the cooperative relationship between Taobao and Toutiao. Just advertising is not enough. In other words, Toutiao has just been launched, and Taobao has taken the lead. When Toutiao becomes bigger in the future, advertising fees will definitely increase.

Taobao’s advertising budget may not be enough.

I can only rely on Alimama.

Boss Ma said: "I see there are many channels on Toutiao today, including attention channels, recommendation channels, news channels, entertainment channels, sports channels, and financial channels."

"Yes, the main ones are follow channels and recommended channels. The former is the media account that users follow, and the latter is the main channel, which is the homepage recommended by the algorithm."

"Why is there no video channel?"

"This channel is too big and it won't be available in a short period of time. There should be one in the future. Take your time. But there will be a comic channel online soon."

"Where's the shopping channel?"

"Um?"

Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows and looked at him.

Okay!

Now I understand.

It turns out that this is Lao Ma’s purpose, to turn Toutiao into a Taobao customer.

It was indeed a brilliant move!

Toutiao ranks relatively high in Baidu searches. Baidu has blocked Taobao, but there is a Taobao channel in Toutiao. It is equivalent to Baidu indirectly providing traffic to Taobao.

In addition to Weidian, Friends.com, and the recently opened msn Chinese website, Sohu.com, Maopu, and Taobao, the traffic matrix has been established.

Baidu has just established an e-commerce department, and Taobao has already set up a dragnet, just waiting for Li Yanhong to take the bait.

Boss Ma asked: "How is it? The cooperation between Taobao and Friends.com is doing very well. Last month's transaction volume exceeded 200 million, right? Your commission there is also 20 to 30 million."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Old Ma, your calculation is brilliant. Just now, you said that Taobao's peak traffic is too high and there are not enough servers. This time, I want to let Toutiao help you share the load."

Just like the Taobao channel of Friends.com, Taobao is used in the background and Friends.com is used in the front. It is equivalent to Friends.com taking half of the traffic load for Taobao, and the pressure on Taobao's servers is reduced.

"Don't do it?"

Boss Ma is also a little unsure. After all, Toutiao has just been launched not long ago, and the first priority is to stabilize the basic market, rather than busy making money.

Zhou Buqi said: "Do it! It has to be done! The contract will be in accordance with the friends.com?"

Boss Ma was very happy, "No problem! In order to show the sincerity of cooperation, Taobao's advertising budget on Toutiao can be increased by 20% next year, reaching a scale of 60 million yuan. How about this? This scale is not small, right?"

Zhou Buqi said: "It's just so so. I signed a big deal a few days ago with Baihe.com, with an annual advertising budget of 30 million. Hyundai Motor is even more powerful. Calculated in terms of PV volume, it has given a maximum advertising budget of 50 million."

fee."

Boss Ma twitched his lips.

I thought in my heart that this kid jumped out from some crack in the rocks. He is simply a monster. He makes money more like picking up money.

Zhou Buqi suddenly thought of something and frowned: "Lao Ma, the online shopping environment is getting better and better now, but the infrastructure is a little behind. I'm talking about the payment system, which is an obstacle."
To be continued...