About a year ago, ali Cloud video cloud team came to a warm-hearted and friendly, with a wide range of hobbies, veteran cadres and new students, he is a senior technical expert Hao Chong, the name and recruitment, meaning “harmony to attract wealth”.
Some people say programmers only like to write code quietly, and recruit an outdoorsman. He is good at skiing, proficient in singles and doubles, has been a ski instructor. He is also a member of a football club. Recently, he began to study Tai Chi, hoping to spend two to three years to improve the level of tai Chi. In his opinion, learning a certain sport is the same as learning a certain language. It is something we must focus on. Only by adjusting our attitude first can we do things well and have the chance to achieve perfection.
Today, we will approach and recruit together, listen to him talk about his technology growth road.
As an “idle” oil painting major, self-study, entrepreneurship and EMBA are all his labels
I majored in oil painting in university. In the process of learning, I gradually found that painting requires more emotional thinking and inspiration to support creation. My copying work is not bad, but my sketches are weak. At that time, I was in the same building with the computer department, and I often audited mixed classes. Only then did I find that rational logical thinking is more compatible with my personality. It was with this understanding that I began to indulge in the world of code, and since then began a long road of self-learning. In college, I began to learn computer by myself, learn FoxBASE, DOS, and later learn C language. I was a veritable “idle” oil painting major student.
After graduation, I was assigned to teach and didn’t register for a job because I knew it wasn’t the life I wanted. Now that you have found what you love, you should pursue it bravely. Action is the best medicine for fear, so I didn’t hesitate to pack my bags and go to Beijing alone.
In fact, cross-major employment is not smooth, basically resume evaluation was brushed out. Maybe it was the blessing of God that I finally found an opportunity for an interview. My performance on the spot was not bad, and I was stationed as a DBA in a university. After entering the job, I had to rely on self-study for everything I could not do. At the beginning, I was a DBA of MSSQL, writing stored procedures and separating database tables. Later, I came into contact with CDN business, which was another process of learning from scratch. From simple Linux installation to shell commands and Perl, I accumulated knowledge from books and practice. Gradually, a person to carry part of the development of support, and do the essential operation and maintenance work, and do pre-sales work, but also to run customers, 24 hours online.
Strange to say, I felt that I could never run out of energy at that time. I dealt with business in the daytime, and at night, I looked up the accumulated problems and studied them. At weekends, I went to Xidan Book Building for free reading. New projects, new business, every day feel that knowledge is not enough, each knowledge point will lead to a long string of theoretical knowledge. I enjoy the cycle of acquiring knowledge, learning new techniques, and serving customers. This experience also laid a solid foundation for me to start my own CDN.
At the very beginning, one person usually worked for ten people. The basic platform construction, node construction, control platform, front-end and customer management were all completed in my rental room. Until 2006, when the business was launched, I was the first employee of the company and my work number was 01. Gradually, with the formation of a team, I began to move to management positions. From eight years of technical management to one year of pure management, I learned how to read financial statements, understand the market, customers and competitive relations. As the business grew, I found myself lacking in management, so in 2015, I decided to take a break and recharge my batteries. I went to Tsinghua University for EMBA, systematically learning some knowledge of operating companies.
Looking back, it was busy and hard, but because of all that hard work, I know I didn’t waste my time. At that time, I was desperately learning knowledge, embracing change, accepting challenges, not for the exchange of equal salary. It’s because I know that skills and experience accumulated in challenging jobs are more valuable than money, and that doing each job well and growing from it is what keeps me moving forward.
Cloud computing represents the future. I decided to embrace Ali Cloud CDN and lead the team
Suddenly one day, I received a call from Shu Du (general manager of Aliyun Video Cloud), who asked me whether I was interested in Aliyun CDN. I am certainly curious about how Ali Cloud does CDN, what is its position in the market, and how it holds the no.1 position in the market. Also, HAVING been doing CDN for more than a decade, I am eager to see what the next generation of CDN will look like. I remember shu Du once said, “Ali Cloud platform is very big, cloud computing represents the future.” I can relate to that. From the outside, we often see news reports and hear people talk about Ali, but what does it feel like to be there? So, I decided to come in.
Team integration is the first step. First of all, Uncle is very supportive to me and gives me a lot of help. Secondly, everyone is very friendly, and there is no pressure to deal with technical students. In the end, I think the key is to understand what I can contribute to the team. I know roughly how to do operation and maintenance, service and operation. I need to find out where I can play a role in this team, so as to complement and connect with everyone.
Ali Cloud’s business is expanding rapidly, so team building is also a big challenge for me. If I want to work with what kind of people, in addition to identifying with our corporate culture and development concept, team service consciousness is also very important. Some people love to shout out the sense of service, but most of the time the shout is more hope that others to serve him. There are few people who can really think about how I can serve others.
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Business line in the end, the World Cup battlefield, pull out practice
As for team integration and personnel construction, I have actually experienced a very important project since I came to Ali, which is escorting the 2018 Russia World Cup. In fact, I have supported large-scale live programs like the Spring Festival Gala before, but this time, as the commander-in-chief of the World Cup escort, the challenge is quite big.
Scale creates a completely different volume change, which is a big challenge for the business. Fortunately, we are backed by ali family, with rich resources and team members with super execution. Meanwhile, the video cloud team has accumulated years of technical and escort experience in singles’ Day and large live events. I think this is an important basis for us to undertake the World Cup escort project. If there is no these, simply to spell bandwidth, in fact, is not good World Cup security.
After receiving the mission, we did a lot of resource drills and preparation. Although it was very hard, everyone was very excited, just like going to the battlefield to charge. The whole office was filled with the atmosphere of “life is rare and it’s time to fight”.
Open on June 14, I remember the official competition, during the first game, we found some problems in the process of the whole convoy, and that the meeting summary experience, according to the 5 o ‘clock in the morning, the discussion about the atmosphere is very fierce, but the whole process of no regret and complain, think and discuss all absorbed, obstacles in the front, don’t escape not tricky, positive to solve the problem. Finally, with the joint efforts of everyone, the optimization plan of the team output was applied to the second session at 8 PM that day. In the impression, the business side is still very satisfied, I also went to youku ceng a crayfish.
When it comes to growth, the whole team has accumulated a complete set of experience from initial resource prediction, plan implementation, intermediate support and analysis. In fact, by the middle of the World Cup, all the escort work had been very smooth and efficient. Each team had sorted out escort manuals, including the check to be done before the start of the match and the emergency plan for any problems during the match. These are actually very valuable lessons. We are also looking forward to seeing other big events take place, allowing our winning team to take on even greater challenges.
As a veteran fan, in fact, there is a small regret, if China is in the World Cup this year, then it will be more.
People are faithful believers in attitude and learning is the eternal team culture
I think the most important team culture in a technology company is learning. Science technology, there are two important methods, the first is the work environment has a strong project, guiding, promoting you to dig and learn continuously, the second is his own learning advanced open source software in the system, if companies don’t have so many projects use these knowledge, then you can go through the open source software, absorbing the thoughts of others.
In addition, you have to have time to refine and iterate, and the person who wrote the code looks like shit two years ago, it’s a joke, and it’s true, and you keep finding mistakes and improving. However, the key point is that the process must be refined, integrated, in order to know the known problems, calmly deal with the unknown problems.
I’m a self-taught developer. Usually when you’re learning a language, there’s a COOKBOOK, which is full of case studies for each scenario, just like a recipe. The COOKBOOK is a highly recommended way of getting started.
After reading this, many people may wonder why I love sports so much. That is because the project brings us a lot of mental pressure, exercise is easy to secrete some dopamine, can relieve the pressure, make the mind clearer, then come back to work and study, will be more efficient.
At the end of the interview, the reporter asked you what was the most important thing in your growth over the years. “I’m a big believer in attitude,” he says. It is because of his attitude towards work devotion, positive attitude towards learning, attitude to struggle in the face of difficulties, and attitude of choosing and persevering that he has experienced many decisions and reversals. From a student majoring in oil painting, he has continuously accumulated knowledge and skills and successfully transformed into ali P9 today.
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