Cultivate a black technology god

Chapter 60 Network Disruption Pretend
Xia Zhi nodded, indicating that he knew.

He reassured everyone:
"The researched algorithm is not online."

Another engineer asked a question:
"If it's not online, what's the point of our research on this algorithm?"

Xia Zhi smiled and said:

"Isn't it meaningful to learn advanced algorithms and inspire new ideas for developing algorithms?"

Although the algorithm engineers in the group still feel stupid, they have to work when the boss speaks.

Xia Zhi arranged a new office for them and gave them three days to simulate the algorithm.

The leading group leader raised his hand and said:
"If the issue of copyright infringement is not considered, we can reverse engineer the algorithm in an afternoon."

Xia Zhi snapped his fingers and said with a smile:

"That's fine. Today you work overtime, and tomorrow you take a day off."

Hearing this, the other engineers nodded contentedly.

All the meaning is false, as long as money or vacation is given, the enthusiasm for work will come up.

Xia Zhi arranged the algorithm group here, and came to the product group of Zhiran platform.

Find the person in charge of operating the platform and tell the person in charge of the next plan:

"Tomorrow, we will stop the data returned by the system. At night, we will make a statement to the public that the server is down."

The person in charge was a little strange and asked:
"Is the server running normally? Just not processing user data?"

Xia Zhi corrected and said:

"Process normally, but the result of the processing is not returned to the user."

The person in charge opened his mouth to ask what he was doing, but in the end he just nodded and said he understood.

That night, Liu Shang handed over an application form about suspending user data interaction.

It has the signatures of the direct person in charge of the seabed server, and Zhiran platform CEO Liu Shang, and Xia Zhi's signature is required at the end.

Because one day of downtime can greatly damage user experience and software trust.

In turn, it may affect the reputation of the entire software.

Therefore, the software on the market regards downtime as a first-level accident.

Xia Zhi didn't care, signed his name, and let the experienced Sun Shiliang take charge of the public relations department, trying to stabilize the emotions of users who couldn't use the service, and reduce the heat of this matter.

Just don’t hang on the hot searches all the time.

The next day, the shutdown plan was implemented as scheduled.

The first time a user came over to ask customer service what was going on.

According to the previous request, use the panacea to reply in the early stage:
"I'm very sorry to cause you trouble. We have organized engineers to troubleshoot the problem. We will locate the problem as soon as possible and solve it in time. Please wait patiently. Finally, I would like to say sorry to you again and thank you for your trust in the Zhiran platform."

The user finds that the server of the Zhiran platform is connected normally, and he can perform business operations on the platform, such as making videos, but the strange thing is that when the processing progress bar ends, there is no data.

A technical nerd grabs the network data packets and finds that there is no data packet returned from the server, indicating that there is still a problem with the server.

In this regard, Zhiran Film and Television is still the previous rhetoric, asking users to wait patiently and ensuring that user data will not be lost or leaked.

In the afternoon, more and more customers complained, and when the discussion was about to hit the hot search, the Zhiran platform finally issued an apology statement, claiming that there was a small problem with the submarine server, which caused the system to temporarily go down. It is estimated that the problem will be resolved before midnight today.

As for the specific reason why the submarine server had problems, the reason given by Zhiran Platform was that the server resonated during the construction of the submarine park and the hardware was damaged.

Some customers have lodged complaints with the parent company of the Zhiran platform: Zhixia Technology.

In their view, the technical support of the Zhiran platform is Zhixia Technology, and Zhixia Technology should come out to turn the tide when something like this happens.

In their minds, Zhixia Technology has this ability.

In this regard, Zhixia Technology's reply is similar to that of Zhiran Platform, asking users to wait patiently, and construction personnel have dived into the seabed for equipment maintenance.

External problems are handled by special personnel. At this time, Zhixia Technology CEO Xia Zhi is sitting in the office in a daze.

From this morning, he arranged for technicians to temporarily load the data compression algorithm scheme generated by reverse engineering last night to the Zhiran platform for operation.

Because it has not been tested and optimized at all levels, you can imagine that many problems will occur.

In addition, this algorithm involves infringement and will be subject to lawsuits once it is put into operation, so Xia Zhi simply pretended that the server was down and digested all problems on the server side.

In this way, users will not be able to find the problem and solve the problem from the root cause!

He was so tossing, naturally not because he was too idle, but because he was collecting system points.

Xia Zhi sat in the office with no lights on, staring blankly at the wall directly opposite, and kept monitoring the changes in the display of the system panel in his mind:

【Mission No. 3 in progress: data compression algorithm. 】

[Development time: 154 days]

[Energy input: 25102 points]

[Investment funds: 625238 points]

[External assistance: 93841 points]

[Total mission points: 72 points]

[Note: The minimum points required to enable system assistance: 100 task points. 】

Spent 5 mission points a day today.

Much lower than Xia Zhi imagined.

Judging from the points he previously asked users to experience on the Zhiran platform, now that there are more and more stable users, mission points are more difficult to earn.

Xia Zhi analyzed that if he continued to use this way of overdrafting reputation to earn points, he would still be dissatisfied with this task point.

Because if the system keeps going down, in a few days, not many people will use the Zhiran platform.

Xia Zhi called Sun Shiliang and asked the Zhiran platform to restore the system to yesterday and operate normally.

Sun Shiliang was relieved when he got the instructions.

He walked out of Xia Zhi's office quickly, came to the corridor, called Liu Shang, and took the elevator to the Zhiran department to guide the work.

Afterwards, Xia Zhi reflected on it, developed a new algorithm for operation, and then let users experience the test. It was indeed possible to gain mission points.

But task points are hard to save.

What can be done now is to develop as many algorithms as possible, select the best for operation, and earn system points bit by bit.

The next morning, Xia Zhi asked Sun Shiliang to gather the leadership for a short meeting.

The leaders who didn't know before thought it was a review and accountability for yesterday's downtime accident, but Xia Zhi didn't mention what happened yesterday, and just asked them to give an idea about the data compression algorithm.

A leader said:
"The data compression algorithm we use now is sufficient, and the user experience is not bad."

The implication is that it is thankless to engage in this data compression algorithm now.

Xia Zhi ignored him, expressionless, as if he hadn't heard what he said.

The leader who spoke in front fell silent and lowered his head.

Someone answered to break the awkwardness and said:
"We can buy an excellent data compression algorithm on the market at a high price, or the right to use it. As far as I know, the algorithm of the Magic Flute."

Xia Zhi interrupted him:
“The Magic Flute algorithm requires dividends from shares and does not consider it.”

The crowd nodded.

Using the Magic Flute algorithm, all revenue from the Zhiran platform will be distributed to the Magic Flute Company in the future, which is not a long-term solution.

It was also proposed:
"Since we want to buy it, we can choose some colleges and universities and hold an algorithm competition. The topic is the data compression algorithm. In terms of compression rate, we can not only brainstorm, but also promote the Zhiran platform in colleges and universities."

Some people nodded, some expressed doubts:
"The data compression algorithm is extremely difficult. Even the professor may not be able to come up with a good technical solution. Let a group of students in school do it? Isn't it a waste of time?"

Someone echoed:

"Yeah, maybe the best score in the end is not as good as the algorithm we use now."

Some people flatter:

"Don't underestimate those students. Didn't Mr. Xia develop the optimization algorithm of Zhimei Camera in school?"

"At that time, President Xia had already graduated, okay? I wrote the algorithm in the teaching and research section of the school."

Xia Zhi interrupted everyone's discussion. He already had an idea.

(End of this chapter)