Micro Message Concept
Lu Zhou opened a blank document and pondered for a moment before naming it "Micro Message Concept."
He deduced various possibilities in his mind, assuming a major premise: that before Penguin Weixin's release, the channels in the Banana Market would quickly expand, gaining no less than tens of millions of users who would distribute micro messages through the Banana channels. Coupled with his advantage of being reborn, this would barely offset Penguin's hundreds of millions of users.
Assuming this major premise is satisfied, Lu Zhou needs to lead the team in rapidly developing the Banana Market, swiftly promote the installation and promotion of the Banana Market, and strive to complete a round of market expansion before Micro Message development is completed.
Of course, the assumption of tens of millions of users at the scale of the major premise is just a hypothesis.
Although the Android system has already released version 2.1, it is not yet at its most mature stage. Domestic mobile phone manufacturers are still in the stage of development and adaptation and have not formally entered the Android mobile phone market. Therefore, the number of Android phone users is not as high as imagined.
Even if the major premise of the Banana Market is satisfied, Lu Zhou still faces numerous problems in developing Micro Message.
The first and most direct cost is server resources. Within a year of Penguin Weixin's release, the number of users rapidly grew to one hundred million, and during that year, Penguin Telecom's bandwidth and server hosting expenses were nearly seven hundred million yuan higher than the previous year. Most of this increase came from the expansion of server resources due to the expansion of Weixin's user base.
Currently, Lu Zhou is still waiting for a million followers on Weibo to bring in money, so seven hundred million is undoubtedly an astronomical figure.
Furthermore, from the launch onwards, this application will still need to expand the market by consuming billions or even tens of billions of yuan each year, at least for two or three years.
Even with the introduction of venture capital, a large user base is needed for others to be willing to invest money in development.
Perhaps Lu Zhou can compress the scale of server deployment in the early stages, but it will inevitably explode in growth in the future. Rather than passively adapting, it's better to make all the preparations in advance since Lu Zhou himself doesn't know how much impact this butterfly will ultimately have.
Lu Zhou recalled the pain of Penguin's early development, "I understand the feeling of panic every time the backstage rings, just like Pony did when he was developing Penguin. How much money does this thing devour every day, equivalent to the cost of several houses?"
Subsequently, the issues of money and server resource management come to mind.
Even if Micro Message's initial deployment volume is heavily discounted, Lu Zhou still needs thousands of servers to support the corresponding business. These servers need to be deployed in several major cities in China, facing tremendous operational and maintenance pressure.
Social applications like Micro Message have a large number of functional modules as microservices, with significant differences between average daily requests and peak values, possibly reaching several times the average. Consequently, it is inevitable to equip resource scheduling and overload control systems and achieve service automation.
In simple terms, it is impossible to manage so many machines manually. Software systems are needed to automatically manage and schedule server resources.
Lu Zhou needs to advance in technical exploration and practice in cloud computing, assemble an operations team and cloud computing development team, and quickly realize a commercially available management platform.
Following that, there are the development issues of the application's backend processes.
From the messaging model and data synchronization protocol to the access, logic, and storage three-tier architecture, it is apparent that Lu Zhou alone
cannot bring it to life.
Within the entire Dream Valley team, perhaps Fang Qiang can keep up with Lu Zhou's pace, and others can gradually develop Dream Valley advertisements and the Banana Market according to requirements. However, they seem to lack the necessary capabilities in this particular area.
Lu Zhou needs to reassemble a development team to support the regular development of Micro Message.
Apart from regular development, Lu Zhou has singled out two directions: payment and cutting-edge research.
Firstly, there's the issue of cutting-edge research because, after all, if it involves algorithms or the transition from cutting-edge theory to practical fields, not even Lu Zhou himself dares to guarantee that he has the ability to implement it.
Here's the translation:
For example, Penguin Weixin later developed its own memory cloud called PaxosStore. Its theoretical foundation comes from "The Part-Time Parliament," an article published by computer scientist Leslie Lamport in 1990. The gap between mathematical proof deduction and actual code writing is enormous. Even in his past life, Lu Zhou had studied the open-source libraries released by Penguin, but it was impossible to fully implement them successfully.
Therefore, Lu Zhou needs to assemble a research team with high-level research capabilities.
Since he wants to surpass Penguin, he must lead from the beginning and stay ahead until the end. If he can't achieve that, how can he claim to be the best? How can he support a future application with peak daily requests reaching billions?
Next is the payment method. Surrounding the ecosystem of Micro Message, Lu Zhou will inevitably need to have his own payment application.
Currently, in the Dream Valley market, corporate bank transfers and AliPay are used for transactions. Money transactions between advertisers generally involve bank transfers, while AliPay mainly facilitates developers' income and expenses. In the short term, there is no urgent need for a proprietary payment channel. UU Reading: www.uukanshu.com
However, if the Micro Message concept is prioritized, it will be inevitable to have its own payment channel. In the future development of Micro Message, there will be numerous usage scenarios that require payment. Entrusting the payment channel to others is equivalent to surrendering control.
Establishing a payment channel requires both qualifications and financial resources, as well as a development team with a financial-grade system.
"Money, money, it makes my head spin. Even if I earn billions every year, without people, money, and proper technology, I can't handle being the Penguin's father. I have no money, no manpower, and insufficient technical expertise."
After sighing, Lu Zhou finally wrote down his thoughts, excluding some future key points, and documented them.
After writing a section, he muttered to himself, "The manpower in Dream Valley advertising and Banana Market cannot be touched. The current tasks are already a stretch. I need to go to Wenge and recruit a cloud computing team. The regular development team for Micro Message may only have the batch of graduates from June. Depending on the situation, I may need to bring Fang Qiang in later. The research team is troublesome. My own shortcomings are too great. I should talk to Director Zhang and see if he can recommend some people. As for the payment channel, I have no clue."
At midnight, Lu Zhou finished writing the last paragraph.
"Phew. That's it, I can only do it this way. If I continue writing, it will be mere speculation. Tomorrow, there's Dream Valley advertising 2.0, Banana Market backend programming, Banana service end, and I also need to go see Yuan Haizhou..."
During the Qingming holiday, there were loan matters at home, along with various old matters involving Chen He's family, and the emotional entanglement with Ye Qingchen. In the past few days, Lu Zhou had almost completely emptied himself. But as soon as he got back to work, countless tasks kept popping up.
"Sleep, sleep. My life is more important."