Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 138 WeChat Takes Off
Half an hour later, all the members of the three WeChat groups returned to their positions. Chen Mo asked the student in charge of operation and maintenance to temporarily move the computer over to facilitate communication.

Then Chen Mo placed some bread, biscuits and the like at each person's workstation. Red Bull and Nestle coffee were essential items to replenish ammunition.

Everyone was in charge of the position he was responsible for, silently wiping the weapons in their hands, watching the trends on the Internet, waiting for Chen Mo's charge horn to sound.

When they saw 360 launch webQQ, they sighed with regret, thinking that it would be a case of much ado about nothing.

Then I heard the boss say, "Don't take it lightly. Brother Xiao Ma is not a pushover. It will probably be our turn soon."

Sure enough, within half an hour, WebQQ announced that it would shut down its services. This ruthless self-castration really scared them.

"Check the time. It's 20:14 now. In 5 minutes, it will officially start at 20:19!"

Chen Mo looked at the message from the person in charge of 360 on WeChat and typed on the keyboard, "We have completed the online testing here, and everything is ready. We are just waiting for you to open the gate!"

"it is good!"

Then he synchronized the latest battle information with all members on duty.
Chen Mo found the company's largest LCD monitor, placed it in a prominent position, and opened the WeChat background data statistics panel.

The current number of WeChat users is 117 million.

In this way, everyone can intuitively feel the specific data changes.

1 minutes
3 minutes
4 minutes
Just like the silence before a war, there was no other sound except the occasional tapping of the mouse and keyboard.

Everyone held their breath, waiting in a state of alert, looking at the clock on the company wall, and counting down silently in their hearts.
"541! Start fighting!"

As Chen Mo's countdown reached zero, 360's official website released the latest announcement at the same time, "Penguin Moving", and QQ Bodyguard also updated this function simultaneously.

Then everyone saw on the LCD screen that was responsible for displaying WeChat data that the two trend lines representing the number of WeChat users and the number of people online at the same time began to climb up slowly.

The number of users at the top changes synchronously, 125 million...126 million.
At a certain moment, a dragon suddenly raised its head as if it was equipped with rocket thrusters and soared into the sky.

Everyone started to get busy, observing their own positions (data and abnormal information) to see if there were any problems and to fill in the gaps.

As time passed, the numbers on the screen jumped rapidly.

5 million in 133 minutes.
10 million in 146 minutes.
30 million in 179 minutes.
1 million in 254 hour.
After it was launched on WeChat, it took more than a month of offline promotion and word of mouth to reach the scale of one million users.

In just one hour, the amount of traffic was more than the total of the previous month. This is the traffic brought by hot events, which is like the backflow of the Milky Way. It is so terrifying.

Although Chen Mo had some expectations in his mind, he did not expect it to be so exaggerated.

But before he could take a breath, the breath was taken away by the operation and maintenance manager.

The operations and maintenance supervisor finally suppressed the heat in his heart after taking a cool shower, and couldn't help but feel a little scared.

Because he had some doubts when Mr. Chen asked him to expand the server capacity some time ago. At that time, WeChat's operation was really good, with one million people online a month, but he was preparing to carry a server with tens of millions of people. You know, if the servers were left idle, it would be like a fierce woman marrying Viagra to him. He always felt it was a pity.

At that time, he still felt that Mr. Chen was making a fuss out of nothing, but seeing the leader's unwavering attitude, he still did as he was told.

Fortunately, he did as he was told. Looking at the curve on the server performance monitoring panel which was as stable as an old dog, he felt relieved. Otherwise, not only the two of them on duty, but the entire company's operation and maintenance would be in a panic and would have to rush back to the company to make up for their losses.

After all, if the server cannot handle the increase in users and traffic, you are primarily responsible. If you fail to handle it properly and cause online accidents and loss of company interests, you can just pack up and leave.

Fortunately, the operation and maintenance supervisor observed the various indicators of each server in real time and found that although they jumped a lot, they were still within the safety line.

Then he calmly drank his Nescafé coffee.
I secretly thanked the great Mr. Chen, otherwise he would be the busiest person right now.
Even though WeChat has been repeatedly tested and verified by technical personnel during this period, all possible accidents and consequences have been taken into consideration as much as possible.

As time goes by, when the amount of data reaches a certain level, various emergencies, large and small, will still occur.

Most of the problems are basically solved by Li Jianchao after feedback.

However, some extremely special cases still occurred within the first three hours. For example, the data transmission format of 360 would occasionally contain dirty (wrong) data in extreme cases.
At first, everyone thought that there was a problem with their own code. After Li Jianchao did not find any clues or errors within 10 minutes, he immediately reported it to Chen Mo.

Now it was Chen Mo's turn to take action. After thinking for less than 10 seconds, Chen Mo immediately contacted 360 Technology to coordinate a solution. He repaired the data here, solved the user's problem first and stopped the loss in time, and then looked for the cause.

However, new dirty data is still generated, although the probability is relatively low. After scanning and statistics by Sun Ziwei, it only accounts for a few thousandths of the total. However, when magnified to millions of data, that means problems with hundreds or thousands of users.

Chen Mo calmly gave orders, asking Xu Liang to continue manually repairing the erroneous data, and then he led the technical team to investigate the root cause.

Later, under his leadership, the code-level problem was eliminated in 3 minutes and the middleware problem was eliminated in 5 minutes.

At this time, 360 reported that they had found the problem and were working on solving it.

30 minutes later, 360 reported that the problem had been fixed and was online.

Although the probability of dirty data being generated has been reduced, it still exists. It seems that this is a mixed problem and cannot be discussed in isolation.

Chen Mo thought about it and checked the server with the operation and maintenance supervisor. On the surface, everything seemed normal. However, Chen Mo spent 10 minutes writing a script to scan it. He then found that a node of a server was not running. It should be that a hardware failure occurred.

This scared the operation and maintenance supervisor. He had heard about Chen Mo's amazing skills, but he didn't expect that he could do the operation and maintenance work so well. Working with him just now, he felt like he was back to the time when he first entered the industry and followed his teacher.
After the operation and maintenance team removed the problematic server, the data finally returned to normal.

After the problem was solved, everyone returned to normal. They monitored the operation of the business they were responsible for while waiting for new problems that might arise at any time.

At around 10 o'clock, the door of the general manager's office opened and Lei Jun walked out.

Lin Bin and Zhou Guangping were sent by him to the Inventec factory to follow up on the manufacturing and assembly process of Xiaomi phones. There have been many problems there recently. I heard that these two guys live on site in the factory to solve the problems. So he took over the headquarters. Since the 3Q war affected the whole company, it has become a mess at their level. They have to communicate with Kingsoft and other related companies. Just now, a friend from an investment institution called him to mediate between the two parties.

Lei Jun said on the surface, "Okay, okay, okay, I'll try my best."

I thought to myself, my father is one of the masterminds, I wish his head would explode, and I am still trying to mediate.

He just took a breath and came out to see what was going on with Chen Mo outside.

He came up to Chen Mo and asked, "How's WeChat doing?"

"It's okay. We just solved a problem. It's currently quite stable. Take a look at the data." After seeing Lei Jun, who looked a little tired, Chen Mo pulled him in front of the screen showing statistical data.

"431 million? Holy crap! How could it be so fast?" Even Lei Jun, who had seen countless big scenes, was shocked by the data and couldn't help but swear. Obviously, the trend of this data exceeded his previous understanding of the objective development laws after a software was launched.

"Yeah, I was also shocked at the time. I can only say that Xiao Ma Ge is too unpopular, or too popular."

"How long do you plan to stay up tonight?"

"Let's stay up all night first!"

Lei Jun's eyes widened when he heard this. "How can you say 'all night'?"

"After all, we can't afford to lose in this crucial battle. I just hate working overtime, but it's not that I can't work overtime!" Chen Mo had an expression that showed he was looking down on someone.

"Okay, I feel relieved to have you here. I still have to go find Qiu Bojun."

Lei Jun patted Chen Mo on the shoulder, then encouraged the students who were still fighting, talked about their hard work, and then left.

In fact, there was nothing wrong with Chen Mo’s overall plan, but many details still needed to be improved and supplemented by himself.

He has been secretly mediating everywhere in recent times. Even with Lei Jun's fighting power as a model worker in Zhongguancun, he feels a little exhausted.

On the way to the underground garage to pick up the car, Lei Jun suddenly had a BGM in his mind, humming: I am a painter, I am good at painting~
From the time the WeChat entrance was opened by 360 to the peak time at 12 am.

The number of WeChat users increased from 200 million, 300 million, to over 500 million, and then the upward curve gradually showed a slowing trend.

The above is just a microcosm of this night.

Countless battles took place on this night, in Room 807 of the Yingu Building, which was bustling with activity.

One night passed.
The morning light rises again from the east, awakening the sleeping people.
After a busy night in Room 807 of Yingu Building, everyone, still in an excited state, suddenly realized that the night had passed so quickly and it was already dawn.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, Lei Jun came to the company excitedly and became the first person to go to work, carrying a bunch of breakfast in his hands.

The first thing he asked when he saw Chen Mo was, "How many WeChat users are there?"

Chen Mo looked at Lei Jun, whose eyes looked a little dark. He guessed that this guy didn't get much sleep last night. He pointed to the side and said, "Here, look for yourself!"

"Wow, this number is quite unique, 798, okok, very OK!" Lei Jun was very satisfied seeing this.

Then he remembered the food in his hand and quickly put it on the table, "I'm starving after working all night, everyone has a share, eat something!"

"Thank you, Mr. Lei!" Amidst everyone's thanks, Lei Jun waved his hand and went into his office as he had other things to do.

At 9: in the morning, Chen Mo, who was dozing off in the conference room, was awakened by Li Jianchao.

Li Jianchao said with a little regret, "Mr. Chen, 360 just announced the closure of QQ Bodyguard, and our WeChat entrance is also closed."

It seemed that the protracted war had not been fought, which made Chen Mo feel a little sorry. He yawned.
"Oh~ Got it. Tell everyone to clean up the battlefield as planned and enter the final stage."

"understand!"

Chen Mo rubbed his face with his hands, trying to sober himself up.

Then he stood up and stretched, feeling that his body was already decayed. He did not feel sleepy even though he had not slept. After taking a nap, he was overwhelmed by fatigue.

I walked back to my workstation and looked at the number of WeChat users on the screen. The number was fixed at 807 million.
Chen Mo revealed a hint of regret amidst his satisfaction.

The time is still too short. If it continues for a few more days, the number of WeChat users may exceed 20 million. In this case, even if Zhang Xiaolong catches up, even if I reward him with two rockets, I may not be able to catch up. It's a pity.

But I am also content. The most time-consuming and laborious stage of developing a software is from 0 to 1. This time, WeChat saved at least 3 months by taking advantage of the 2Q war.

Zhang Xiaolong should have discovered WeChat by now, but it doesn’t matter. Even if he starts developing it now, it will take at least 1 to 2 months.

I have a 4-month first-mover advantage, so what if I have Tencent behind me? I will just have to wait and see!

After Chen Mo saw that almost everyone had come to work, he ordered,
"Everyone has done a great job. You've all worked hard. Let's wrap up and hand over the work to the students who are on duty for half a day. Everyone, go back and have a good rest. Come back tomorrow and remember to clock in."

After saying that, Chen Mo yawned, waved his hand, and left.

Everyone in the three parts who stayed up all night has been a personal participant in this period of time. From the steady growth step by step after WeChat was launched, to the preparations and early layout at the end of the month, to the close calls last night, WeChat has now undergone such earth-shaking changes.

Only those who are in the situation know more clearly the energy and role played by the person in front of them.

At this moment, Chen Mo's departing back looked like a knight who had done his job and left without leaving a trace.
Thanks to the "IH Xiaolian" boss for the reward, the boss is generous~orz~
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(End of this chapter)