“Where should I watch live? Do you want to interact with the audience? Where is the interaction?” Facing her first X-Live, Jenny bombarded her with questions. She is a loyal user of Little Sweet Potato. She usually loves watching the live broadcast of the bloggers’ clothes. Her first show as the “anchor” is a pure technology sharing “based on the international adaptation of Rongyun IM+RTC”. Share content, completely based on her six years in Rongyun practice experience.
From tradition to innovation, from “request” to “service”
In 2014, Jenny’s life opens up a new script. She ended her career in the traditional communication industry and started her career as a communication cloud product r&d engineer in Rongyun. During the interview, The business description provided to developers by Yang Pan, co-founder and CTO of Rongyun, impressed Jenny. “It’s such a great idea that developers need it.” Looking back, that decision led her to seize an industry opportunity.
In the past six years, Rongyun has been pioneering in the field of communication cloud, with technology, products, services and market performance advancing side by side. Jenny has also completed her promotion from R&D Engineer to Senior Architect. As a researcher who participated in the initial creation of Rongyun IM products, she is still the builder and guardian of this product, watching it gradually grow into a leading product in the industry.
When she first entered the cloud, Jenny’s task was to build the “push” function. “From zero to one, I wrote every interface design or integration optimization for developers.” From a traditional mobile phone manufacturer to an Internet company, Jenny’s biggest feeling is that she has gone from greenhouse to wind and rain. “The pace is faster, the business is not skilled, the knowledge structure is missing, and different from the replication of a certain ability before, in Rongyun, the test of comprehensive ability is more.”
More importantly, Jenny is also facing the demolition and reconstruction of her thinking model. “I used to be a platform guy, and I was more concerned about the stability of the whole system. Developers have to accommodate me.” After coming to Rongyun, Jenny will completely change into a “developer’s server” — “How is the applicability, whether it is convenient for development, how is the interface expansion, and how to set each parameter?” It all starts from the developer’s point of view.
The process is not easy. Fortunately, a month later, all the anxiety, confusion and pressure were released at the moment the push function ran out. “I also really experienced the beauty of technology.” Jenny: You know, when you finish a new feature or learn a new skill, you feel a sense of accomplishment. I feel excited to face another challenge.
Jenny has witnessed the growth of Rongyun from its initial IM Demo to its market share no.1. In this digital world of zeros and ones, every company is building its own brand-name building, a skyscraper or a rotten house, depending on whether the original base was solid enough.
From Jenny’s point of view, the base of a melting cloud consists of two parts. One part is code that is robust enough; The other part is the company’s values.
When it comes to code, Jenny’s rule is to be strong, but also beautiful. “Solid structure and frame are the most basic; Layout should be reasonable, carry dozen, easy to expand; The details should be perfect, the most formal expression, and the most compatible consideration.”
In terms of values, Jenny knows a thing or two about “it’s all for developers”.
At the beginning, this development tenet of Rongyun has not been refined, but is more deeply rooted in the behaviors and decisions of Rongyun people with the requirements of “professional ethics” and “technical cleanliness”.
For push ability, touch rate is a very important evaluation index. There are many violations in the industry that exploit loopholes in the system to pull data from the background, “but we’ve never done that in all our years.” For Jenny, this is the requirement of her professional ethics and the embodiment of Rongyun culture — respect for users, respect for developers and respect for technology. This is the key to how far a tech company can go.
Occasionally a little sad, always positive, always forward
Programmers have built the building blocks of the Internet with lines of code. As dividends fade, anxiety sets in. On top of repetitive work and fast-changing technology, it’s common for women to ask “how do you balance work and family?”
At work, she has to manage the team and be able to write code, communicate with various departments, and face the demands of new scenarios constantly emerging after the product carries a large number of users. In life, she is the mother of a primary school boy, and inevitably there are times when she is in a hot spot.
Years of experience and precipitation have developed Jenny’s calm and rational way of thinking. In the face of difficult problems and anxious emotions, Jenny’s most common way to relieve stress is to go shopping alone and enjoy the process of slowly appreciating beauty. Once in a while, she allows herself a little mourning, “when I can’t get up and go for a complete break.” But not for long. The next day it was another hero.
Inrolls are everywhere, and a fast-changing business environment makes security a luxury. But according to Jenny, the 35-year-old crisis, gender disadvantage, are all bogus propositions. The way to overcome everything is to keep learning.
“I regularly think about what I need to grow recently or next, what I’m missing, and how I can improve my knowledge tree.” As an architect, it becomes more about design ideas. Jenny: Keep learning. First look at the designer’s ideas and operation mechanism. Then learn the underlying principles of the kernel.
Keep learning, look ahead, focus on self-improvement, a small technical problem that she can dive into all day and enjoy.
Facing the mature and stable IM products of Rongyun, Jenny and her colleagues also discussed, “What else can we do now that we have achieved this level?” The answer is the same, forward, there is always direction. Focus on doing what you’re doing right now, and circumstances will push you in a new direction.
Rongyun IM SDK has gone through several stages of development, from emphasizing feature richness to demanding ease of development. Now, after a very solid performance in all aspects of the product, the pursuit is “insensitive deployment.” “In the past, we might have had to explain to developers how to use the SDK. Now it was given him, and he used it well; “If you use it wrong, it doesn’t affect other features and you get very clear reminders.” That’s the confidence that comes with healthy, detail-oriented code.
It is on this basis that Rongyun launched IM + RTC + X “full” communication solutions, which is meaningful and confident.
Talk to the X-Live seminar
How does Q1 view rongyun’s newly upgraded IM+RTC+X strategy?
This is an inevitable stage in the development of communication cloud, and when we combine multiple capabilities, we will bring great scene richness and development convenience to developers.
Q2 What do you think is the biggest feature of IM+RTC+X?
The infinite changes brought by the fusion of various capabilities create the infinite possibilities of communication.
Q3 In your opinion, why does Rongyun make such strategic upgrade?
On the one hand, this is the requirement of industry development. For example, after the regulatory requirements for information security are improved, our ability in security must be sufficient. Accordingly, we have made a lot of encryption and security improvements on both the front and back ends, while providing X capabilities such as content auditing directly to developers, so that they can meet the requirements of different markets in terms of content auditing.
On the other hand, in our daily service to developers, we pay special attention to and value every suggestion from developers. Even if the developer doesn’t propose it, we actively explore the possibility of further improvements. For example, under the hot spot of pan-entertainment going abroad, the multi-language ability of X Power for the global market and the push mode adapted to the overseas market are very needed by developers.