The Lanzhou server next to the company crashed again

Noon

The haze in the imperial capital has not yet dissipated

Pushing through the layers of people and fog

I finally came to one of the three giants of Chinese servers

Lanzhou Server

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——The server is crowded, please queue up!

Standing at the door of the Lanzhou server, a UI face full of Lanzhou temperament blocked my way.

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Facing that big face that can hold ten bowls of noodles flat, my stomach was unceremoniously sour and growling: the growling was of course because the user needs were not met, expressing dissatisfaction in a strong and powerful way. As for the sourness, it was not because of pregnancy, but it was just that the UI of the "Lanzhou", one of the three national server giants, was so poor, which was really unconvincing.

There was a rumor that in order to solve the problem of customers waiting in long queues, the store owner collected two unique and top-notch solutions.

The first type requires technical skills: several ramen programmers from the server backend were selected to develop a streaming application called "Didi Noodle Soup". The so-called streaming application means that you no longer need to open a large store and can just take out the key items of soup and drink them on the spot.

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Led by the store manager, these chefs quickly formed a shop with the slogan "Drop by drop, drink free soup" and attracted the attention of many ramen lovers.

But after the project was established, there were widespread complaints and people were unhappy.

Considering that the ramen programmers have been working hard on this project for many months, staying up late to fetch water to make noodle soup, their sweat and the soup are so mixed that it is hard to distinguish them.

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In addition, in order to successfully run "Didi Noodle Soup" and serve bowls of seemingly simple, warm and greasy soup to a group of hungry people, it is necessary to call the relevant noodle soup program segment from the store's underlying program - the noodle soup pot - to the specified location. As the underlying program that has supported the stable operation of Lanzhou servers for more than ten years, the complexity of "Noodle Soup Pot" is not something that can be explained clearly with a spoon. In order to present a bowl of pure soup without spillage to customers when the new project is presented to them, the "Didi Noodle Soup" project also needs to hire an experienced soup delivery operator.

The effort put into the project was too great. The Ramen Architect of the Ramen Technology Department could not bear to tear up his several capable assistants, so the project progress was always difficult.

At the same time, the majority of Lanzhou server users come here to eat noodles. Drinking soup, which can only be regarded as a function of icing on the cake, cannot perfectly solve the user pain points. The Lanzhou product store manager, who was taught by the great product store manager Zhang Xiaonong, thought about it again and again. Based on the principle of using subtraction to make products and letting users eat the above as quickly as possible, he reluctantly gave up this plan to increase user stickiness.

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In short, the "Didi Noodle Soup" project was tacitly aborted among the senior management of the Lanzhou server shortly after it was proposed.

This second option can be said to be a product of the times.

It is said that on that day, a senior executive of Lanzhou Server was sitting in the garden of Huang, the dead landlord next door, to relieve his boredom. He lay on the rocking chair and looked up at the sky in melancholy. He stared at the clouds that gathered and dispersed in the sky, and the senior executive couldn't help shouting: "Got it!"

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Within a few days, Lanzhou's top leaders authorized Huang the right to act as the agent, and quickly arranged several tables and chairs and other hardware to set up the "Huang·Cloud Proxy Server" to cope with the peak impact. Every noon, there would always be a bustling crowd ignoring the big face with ten bowls of noodles and heading towards the "Huang·Cloud Proxy Server", enjoying the peace and tranquility of the landlord's house while tasting the Lanzhou ramen sent from next door. The soup is fresh and sweet in the mouth, and the noodles are soft and glutinous in the throat. With the refreshing cold dishes of northern Shaanxi and the naked luxury style of the landlord's bourgeoisie, every bowl of noodles is a supreme enjoyment.

Since then, Lanzhou Server has gradually developed into a well-known large store in the vicinity with the help of "Yellow Proxy Server" until today.

However, it wasn't until I walked into the proxy server today that I discovered something strange.

——There is a problem with the server code and the food cannot be served!

Finally, I sat down at the "yellow proxy server" and realized what the problem was.

The hungry people around me were just like me, urging the boss to serve the food quickly. Huang Dizhu slowly brought out bowls of homemade soup from the kitchen. This soup was not the leftover soup from the aborted project "Didi Noodle Soup", but chicken soup! The soup with a little chicken not only improved the user experience by countless levels, but also became a classic case as a guide interface to induce user appetite.

At this moment, everyone who was with me in the "Huang·Proxy Server" was chatting and laughing, eating noodles, and ordering dishes. In addition to consuming the ramen business of the Lanzhou Server Agent, most of them also ordered some other dishes from Huang the Landlord.

But the problem is not in the chicken soup, but in the Lanzhou server.

When I was waiting at the door of the parent company's Lanzhou server just now, I noticed that each user sitting in the store was a fat man weighing no less than 300 kilograms. The stack of beef in front of each person was finished in no less than a few seconds, and then they would continue to ask the operation waiter for a new stack of full beef.

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As someone who has been on the Internet for many days, I immediately recognized that these were malicious processes: malicious consumption of server space and resources. I just don't know who these malicious fat guys hacked into the server.

Because of the malicious occupation of the Lanzhou server by a group of fat people, countless customers had to resort to the Huang Dizhu proxy server. Fortunately, the service of the "Huang Proxy Server" was quite considerate and did not tarnish the reputation of the Lanzhou server.

Not long after, there were rumors that all the beef in the Lanzhou server was accidentally eaten, and even the rat meat that could be used temporarily to make up the number was eaten up. For a time, the store was unable to operate normally, and had no choice but to issue a maintenance announcement.

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That night, the lights of the Lanzhou server were on all night. The beef programmers, one of the cornerstones, went out urgently with knives in hand. All the edible and inedible meat they saw was taken away and sent to the store as supplementary resources.

——It’s a trap!

Just when the Lanzhou server next door was extremely busy, Huang Dizhu, the manager of the "Yellow Proxy Server" where we were having dinner, suddenly showed up.

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Behind the landlord Huang were several ramen architects from the original "Lanzhou server" and the fat guy gang of malicious code. If the senior executives of the Lanzhou server next door knew about this, they would be very distressed about the fact that they were leading the traffic for the landlord Huang. No one would have expected that a guy named Huang who was just a chicken could actually beat Lanzhou, one of the three major domestic servers.

It seemed as if all the problems were explained in an instant.

Landlord Huang is wealthy and powerful. He owns a house in a prime location within the Second Ring Road next to the Lanzhou server. He can invite senior officials from Lanzhou to visit him, so naturally he can invite anyone.

This malicious code Fatty Gang is also a hacker group that was accidentally raised. There are often reports in the market that a group of fast-moving, stable-eating fat guys ate so much that the landlords had no food left. This bug has not been dealt with. Unexpectedly, the landlord Huang secretly picked up a loophole and made a Trojan horse and sent it to the Lanzhou server to eat it up. However, because it was under the name of the Lanzhou server, everyone naturally had no defense against this copycat den, and a wave of legitimate traffic hijacking was quietly launched.

At the same time, as a startup project that was born by chance, the instant traffic explosion can be boasted for a year, easily attracting angel investment, ABCDEF rounds of financing. Who wouldn't be jealous of such a big fish? The Ramen Architect of Lanzhou Server has been fighting for many years, and seeing the opportunity of a hit product coming, this is his chance to become successful. Where the senior management can come, of course he can come too. So, after a few visits, the Ramen Architect jumped from the Lanzhou Server of the Big Three to start a business with Huang Dizhu.

In this way, Huang Dizhu successfully took over the big fish of Lanzhou server by using hacker attacks and poaching.

Seeing the Huang landlord and others who arrived at the same time, everyone present was extremely shocked. After everyone talked about it, they heard Boss Huang said slowly: "Friends, from now on, our Huang Proxy Server will be officially renamed: Huang Braised Chicken Cloud Technology."

In a flash, the Jianghu was gone for a long time, and there was no more news about it. What was left was only the braised chicken that took the lead among the swords and sabers.