There is a very special place in the headquarters of the Pan Han Group, it is the only place that connects the floor where a high school student takes classes with the office area of the Pan Han Group. In order to prevent the students' learning from being affected, Zhou Shuo usually does not allow the staff of the group headquarters to go to the school. On the rare occasions when it is necessary to use the school grounds, it is necessary to eliminate the impact as much as possible and not disturb the normal teaching order.

I walked through a small door in the corner of a large computer room for high school teaching. After a short corridor and then through an anti-theft door, I walked into a small computer room.

Exiting from the other gate of this computer room, there is a staircase leading to the Pan Han Group. Walk up the 22 stairs, and directly above is Zhou Shuo's office.

In this computer room of more than 60 square meters, there are large glass windows that are transparent from north to south, soft and clean floor stalls, powerful vertical air conditioners, and Pentium series dual-CPU server-level computers that were extremely difficult to buy in China at that time.

Twenty computers were back to back, emitting a low humming sound. In the quiet computer room, there was only the sound of crackling keyboards. This is the six-ear IM development team that has never appeared in the surface of the Fanhan Group, and their manager Shao Shiming, under the instruction of Zhou Shuo, is developing a network communication software. Although many people know about this matter, no one knows what position they have in Zhou Shuo's heart.

"Alright, let's go to the 65th connected stress test, are you all ready?" Shao Shiming pinched his nose, stood up and looked at all the programmers in the computer room, waiting for their answers.

"Machine 2 is fine."

"The third machine is fine."

……

Until all the remaining nineteen computers, the programmers in front of them all confirmed. Shao Shiming nodded and said, "Let's start the network stress test." Lao Zhang, turn on the network test device. Each machine starts loading virtual users. ”

A programmer sitting on the side stood up and went to a corner of the computer room. There is a cabinet network switch. Lao Zhang operated on it. The switch was like a dragon awakened from its slumber, and various indicators began to flash wildly in an instant.

"The number of virtual users is 100,000, and each machine reports the resource occupancy."

“cpu，8%。 Memory, 10%. ”

“cpu，10%。 Memory, 10%. ”

……

Shao Shiming looked at the computer screen in front of him intently, nodded and said, "Very good, each machine continues to load the number of virtual users." Increase the number of virtual users to 500,000. ”

After waiting for a while, he asked a little nervously, "How is it, is there any abnormal computer resource usage?" ”

"Nope."

"Nope!"

"Good!" Shao Shiming's spirit was obviously a little excited, and he waved his fist and said again: "This time, we will increase the number of virtual users to two million at a time to test the ability of distributed servers to deal with emergencies. ”

As his voice fell, each programmer worked on their own computers, and more lights flashed more frequently on the network switch. Shao Shiming stared intently at the numbers on the screen, his hands clenched into fists.

800,000, 1,000,000, 1,300,000...... One million eight million, two million!

When the computer came up with two million in reality. He hurriedly asked loudly without raising his head: "Everyone, has the program collapsed?" ”

"The system is normal!"

"Normal!"

"The system resources occupy 82%, and I even have a spare time!"

"It's the same on my side, the CPU and memory usage are both 85%!"

"No condition?" Shao Shiming seemed a little stunned. Reconfirmed: "Didn't anyone crash?" ”

He waited for a moment, and when he saw everyone looking left and right, looking at each other, he couldn't help but close his eyes and take a deep breath. Laughed.

"It's good, since there are no problems. So let's test the system pressure spike again and see where its limits are! ”

The programmers below are clearly excited, too. This is the first time that the number of two million has been successful. Now that the set requirements have been met, this test can be regarded as a victory regardless of the final result.

"Start loading virtual user data!" Shao Shiming waved his hand, and everyone below was busy.

Three million, four million! Shao Shiming swallowed his saliva, he didn't expect the effect to be so good this time, and the response speed of the system began to slow down significantly after four million.

4.2 million, 4.3 million, 4.4 million, the final stress test data is fixed on the figure of 4,438,000.

Shao Shiming's huge body slammed into the computer chair, and even made a pop. His heart was a little empty, but also a little calm. Four and a half million data, which has met the expectations of server usage.

How long has it been since you walked into this house? He seems to have forgotten the passage of time. Just remember to write programs day by day, day by day, day by day. Ignoring the dark day and daytime, blurring the date, and forgetting to sleep and eat are tormented by failure again and again.

However, when he finally got out of this cycle one day, his heart was a little empty.

Is this what success tastes like? In fact, I don't seem to have any feelings in my heart, I just feel that I have completed a job and want to move on to the next thing, but I find that this is already the last problem.

It's like a roller coaster, going over one corner after another, and then all of a sudden the car stops. Ring the bell and it's all over.

Passengers will be worried, scared, and screaming when the roller coaster is running, but when they are really down-to-earth, they can't help but think back to those painful days.

Those worries, pains, and tiredness don't seem so terrible anymore, and even some nostalgia, some loveliness.

"Report to and to President Zhou that all the six ears IM programs have been developed, there are no obvious bugs after testing, and the development of the distributed server system has reached the expected load." Shao Shiming waved his hand, looking a little weak.

Although he was not in high spirits, he could not stop the enthusiasm of others. The programmers in the computer room cheered when they heard him announce the success of the development. Some of them hugged each other, and some threw everything they could catch into the sky.

Lao Zhang, who started the network server before, smiled innocently and walked out of the door of the computer room. He is the oldest programmer here, and he is more stable in his work, which is why Shao Shiming likes to entrust things to him.

After a while, the door of the computer room was banged open by Zhou Shuo. He took Shao Shiming's hand and asked ecstatically: "The development of the six-eared IM is complete?" Did the test pass? ”

Shao Shiming adjusted his mentality, and also laughed and said: "That's right, all the tests have been completed, and the software development has been completely over!" ”

"Great!" Zhou Shuo waved his fist, opened his palm wide and pressed his arm, and the cheers in the computer room gradually calmed down with his movements.

He cleared his throat and said with emotion: "Liuer IM will be a great software, on behalf of myself, on behalf of Liuer Company, on behalf of Fanhan Group, thank you for your hard work in the past few months." As the owner of the company, the president of the group, there is nothing to express my gratitude. At this time, any language is pale, and I announce that all the staff involved in the development will be rewarded with 100,000 yuan! ”

Knock, knock –

There was silence in the computer room at first, except for the sound of everyone's heartbeat, and then suddenly there was a burst of cheers that were even more violent than before.

100,000 yuan, which is almost the income of ten years of work for them who were still researchers at 64 institutes last year. It's just three or four months of hard work, how can it be compared to such a huge amount of money.

They don't know what kind of monster they have created. Communication software, which is the same as the operating system, is inherently a monopoly. Microsoft's operating system has kidnapped countless applications, and to beat Windows there are more applications than it. But for software companies to develop software on another operating system, you first have to be able to beat Windows. This has become a dead knot between the chicken and the egg, and it is extremely difficult to break once the monopoly is formed by external forces.

And the same is true of network communication software, a successful network communication software has kidnapped countless users. To beat it, you need more users than it. And in order to have users, you must first beat the software that has been successful before......

Whether it's Windows or a certain network communication software, at least twenty years later, no one has been able to break the cycle and find a way to defeat them.

"I'm giving you a week's vacation, and there's more difficult tasks ahead of you. In a week, we're going to start again! Do you have any questions? ”

"Nope!" Everyone shouted in unison and raised their arms like a forest.

Zhou Shuo waved his hand, nodded and said, "Okay, then disbanded now, hurry up and go home to accompany your wife and children." You will have to stay in Embroidery City for a long time. ”

The programmers of Liu'er IM are all from the 64 software labs, and most of the researchers in the 64 are assigned from various universities, but the vast majority of them are not natives of Xiucheng. They usually lived in the 64 research dormitories, and then they simply lived in the school. A group of otaku, who don't even have girlfriends, can be regarded as carefree and light.

"Huh? Principal Zhou, where are we going next? A programmer asked curiously.

Zhou Shuo looked into the distance with his eyes and said firmly: "We are going to the United States!" (To be continued......)