Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 274: Employees live peacefully, while bosses carry heavy burdens
Chen Mo entered his sage moment as soon as he returned from the annual meeting. He changed his hands-off style and focused on preparing for the Spring Festival Gala exam.

He first gathered everyone on the 13th floor for unified office work to reduce communication costs.

On one side are the 50 employees in the game division led by Sun Ziwei, and on the other side are the more than 100 employees in the WeChat division led by Zhang Xiaolong.

In the rear is an expert group of more than 20 technical experts led by Xu Chaojun and Chen Tong's operations department.

Various large monitoring screens are lined up in the front, with all kinds of data from WeChat and mobile games available, just like in a science fiction movie.

Chen Mo sat in the center like a stabilizing force.

On a large white board next to it, there were a few big, crooked words written on it: "The Other Shore Spring Festival Gala Operations Command Center."

More than 200 employees at the other side's headquarters were working at temporary workstations with their laptops in hand, busy as hell. From time to time, they looked at their boss who was also busy. They felt honored to be able to fight side by side with the boss.

Moreover, they had only heard verbally from some old employees and leaders about the boss's abilities before, but they truly witnessed it in the past two days.

Business logic, planning, operations, technology, he is simply an all-rounder. Although he doesn't understand some details very well, his control and understanding of the general direction are amazing.

They are only responsible for a single business, but the boss has a bird's-eye view of the overall situation, which shows that he must be working extra hard in private.

No wonder the company’s leadership is busier than the employees. Now it seems that the boss should be busier than the executives. It turns out that he is the one who leads by example and sets an example for the leaders.

The reason why they can go to work and get off work normally and rarely work overtime on weekdays, and the reason why they live a peaceful life, is because of a person who carries the burden and moves forward silently!

The boss has paid too much for this family.
The above remarks are the unified consensus reached by employees after private discussions in just a few days.

Chen Mo felt a little strange as everyone's attitude towards him became more and more respectful, which made him confused for a moment.

Chen Tong led the operations team and 80 navy soldiers. In addition to the previous relentless pursuit of WeChat, they have been working hard in recent days to promote the WeChat Spring Festival Gala and mobile game New Year activities. These are part of the other side's external online wars.

A few days ago, the event announcement received an enthusiastic response.

On the technical side, Sun Ziwei and his subordinates are busy preparing for the launch of the mobile game's New Year activities.

Because the mobile games under Bi'an have prepared various activities for the seven-day New Year celebration, a large number of benefits will be distributed in the game.

For example, there are benefits for logging in for seven days, rebates for accumulated recharges, new Spring Festival drops, and the ability to collect props to exchange for big prizes, etc.

These welfare activities are basically formulated around several indicators that mobile games value, such as daily active users, user activity, retention, and payment conversion rate.
In addition to these rewards that require logging in and activities, additional New Year gift packages will be given in the game on New Year's Eve.

The prizes vary depending on the game.

"Warcraft Legend" limited hero two-choice, "Ancient War" main city new year skin, "Civil War" ten-draw, etc.
In addition, the mobile game is linked to WeChat and has created a wishing well.

Each hero, skin, item, or resource in the game is divided into three prize pools: legendary, epic, and excellent.

Players choose their own prizes, and then on New Year’s Eve, use WeChat to “shake and win big prizes.”

You know, these are all free. According to the previously planned activity plan, Chen Mo's original words to the game planning department were, "It's Chinese New Year, let's have some dumplings and have fun."

The above are exclusive activities for the Chinese region and are not available overseas.

CTO Xu Chaojun led a team of technical experts to conduct a final check of the server and bandwidth with the operation and maintenance staff based on the total number of resources required for the Spring Festival Gala, targeting the WeChat scenario that evening.

On New Year’s Eve, the number of mobile game players will be the lowest in the whole year, but it will be the peak for WeChat.

Therefore, Xu Chaojun had previously redistributed all server resources of the other side. On New Year’s Eve, some server resources belonging to mobile games would be allocated to WeChat, and then switched back after the event was over. Therefore, a smooth transition plan and implementation is very important.

In order to reduce the pressure on the server and bandwidth, according to Chen Mo’s suggestion, requests are only initiated at the beginning and end. The seemingly random process in the middle has been calculated and determined in advance when shaking.

The advantage of this is that each user only needs to initiate two requests, and the animation effects in between are actually pre-defined, without consuming any server performance and bandwidth.

They even made a centralized disaster recovery emergency plan, one of which is to calculate all the results in advance, and the user will repeat the above process after shaking the phone. In other words, the food is pre-prepared. The food (money) is real and is ready the moment you order (shake the phone).

The method to be used depends on the impact of the actual traffic on the server load that night. Zhang Xiaolong led the technical and testing departments to conduct the final inspection and testing to ensure that the functions were foolproof.

Chen Mo is responsible for coordinating all resources, playing the role of a panacea, and following up the entire process of WeChat and the game business department to conduct the final round of "full-link joint stress testing."

The WeChat red envelope activity tomorrow night is actually very simple. By shaking the WeChat app, red envelopes will rain down. Users will click on the red envelopes, which will contain random amounts of money. After receiving them, they will be displayed in the wallet, and they can withdraw the money by binding a bank card.

The focus of this activity is not to attract new users, as there are not many new users due to the limitations of the smartphone market. Instead, it is to increase the stickiness of existing users, increase the number of users bound to internal bank cards, and cultivate user payment habits, laying the groundwork for subsequent things such as scanning code payment.

As Chen Mo summarized, the user operation is very simple. When the time comes, take out your mobile phone, open WeChat, shake it, click, click, click. Just wait to be paid, done!
But behind this simple operation are the efforts and contributions of hundreds of people from the Bian'an technical team.

All of this is for the smooth progress of the Spring Festival Gala red envelope activity tomorrow night.

Although it has passed many theoretical simulations and stress tests, no one can guarantee whether it can withstand the test in the end.

Tomorrow night WeChat will face a traffic tsunami of hundreds of millions of people. All Chen Mo and the other side can do is to go all out.
It is considered the New Year only when the whole family is together, otherwise the New Year has no meaning. That’s why there is a saying, whether you have money or not, you should go home to celebrate the New Year.

When the song "Go Home Often to Visit" was released, it resonated with countless people. But the reality is that no matter whether people are working away from home or students studying in other places, they can't go home "often" and can only go home during the Chinese New Year.

Even if there is a long queue at the ticket office of the train station, and you are in the first three in line, you still buy a standing ticket to go back home. Even if the boss does not give you leave in advance, even if you encounter all kinds of difficulties, people will always try their best to embark on the journey home, just because the destination is home.

But some people still stick to their posts because of their work responsibilities and are unable to reunite with their families.

For example, the service industry, transportation system workers, and Internet company employees on duty.
January 2012, 1, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Eve.

It was around seven o'clock in the evening, in a household in a small county town in the northeast.

There was a wide variety of chicken, duck, fish, meat, stir-fried dishes and cold dishes on the table. A family of more than ten people sat around the table eating the New Year's Eve dinner and chatting about family matters and their children's recent situation.

"Second brother, why didn't your Chaozi come back this year?"

The man called the second brother, who was over fifty and had some white hair on his temples, couldn't help but sigh when he heard it, "Don't mention it, they said the company was going to hold some activities during the New Year, so he stayed to work overtime."

The old man who asked the question just now should be his wife who asked curiously, "Second brother, Xiao Chao is making a lot of money in Beijing now, right?"

"I think I mentioned it at the beginning of the year. It seems to be more than 10,000 a month."

"I heard that the housing prices in Beijing are tens of thousands per square meter, and the cost of living is also high. Xiao Chao seems to earn a lot, so I guess he can't save much, right?"

The second brother shook his head and said, "I don't know. It's not like our time. Everything is under the control of the government. We just need to do our job well and don't have to worry about anything.

It’s not easy for kids these days to venture out on their own.”

"If you ask me, it's better to let him come back. Look at my Xiaoliang. Although he earns less in a public institution, he can still make around 4 or 5 a month. It's stable, and I can see him every day. He can also help out at home if there is anything.

Look at Chaozi again, you barely see him once a year. They say raising a son is a way to prepare for old age. Your sister-in-law passed away early, and you didn't even look for her even though I introduced her to several. It's like you don't have a son. Am I wrong? Why are you pulling me?"

The woman pulled her sleeves, glared at her man, and continued to chatter as if she was thinking about you, second brother. Her voice became louder and louder, and everyone turned their eyes to this side.

"I told you at the beginning, it would be great to let Chaozi come back to take over your job. Three thousand a month may not be as much as my Xiaoliang, but it's better than most."

The second elder brother was not without temper. He could hear the sarcasm in his younger brother and sister-in-law's words. "Young people, it's good to venture out. Chaozi called me a few days ago and said that his current boss thinks highly of him and has raised his salary. He will be able to buy a house in Beijing in two years. Fortunately, this kid was ambitious and didn't come back to take over my job. Otherwise, I would have been in trouble in a month!"

When his aunt heard this, she curled her lips. More than 10,000 yuan is considered a lot of money? Just want to buy a house? Who are you trying to fool?

Those gossipy people in the family always compare the second brother's son with their own son, saying that he works in Beijing, will be a Beijinger in the future, and will make a lot of money.

She just refused to accept it. My son Xiaoliang graduated from university, what difference does it make? He has been holding this grudge. What a big deal. What a bunch of snobs.
Seeing that everyone's attention was on her, she decided to expose her second brother's lies.

"You can't afford a house in Beijing even if you earn more than ten thousand yuan a month. Besides, no matter how much money you make, it's a bit unreasonable if you don't come back to see your father all year round. Don't you think this makes sense, Dad?" The woman said, trying to get her father-in-law to support her.

At this moment, a ringtone rang in the venue, and everyone took out their mobile phones, only to find that they were not their own.

I saw my second brother slowly take out a brand new Xiaomi X2Pro phone from his pocket, and when he looked closely, he saw that it was a video call from his own kid.
(End of this chapter)