Cloud-driven Internet "domestic demand" entrepreneurs "returnees" into the tide

For traditional manufacturing, China is a veritable world factory, and for industries with higher technology content, it is precisely the opposite. Hundreds of Chinese teams, using Amazon's servers, or running on Gae (Googleappengine), are designed primarily for foreign users. This phenomenon is called "sea fishing" in the industry.

Livid was once a "fisherman". For 2010 years, for interest and experimentation purposes, he made a forum v2ex.com running on Gae. "At the time, I thought Gae represented the most advanced technology in the cloud computing field. "After nearly two years of development, this forum has become the largest web site in the country currently running on Gae." The daily IP for 7000+,pv65000+,alexa global rankings of around 8000. As a professional forum, it already has a certain popularity among programmers, designers and entrepreneurs.

The project that runs on Gae, code-named PB2. However, when the "honeymoon period" in the past, the server built in foreign countries began to show some deficiencies. "Gae's central room is located in brought, and there are at least 150ms delays in China. Network links are also often subject to force majeure interference. In addition, Gae's mode of billing according to the number of database reads and writes, and datastore about 100ms of Read and write performance, will restrict the development of dynamic interactive function of the website. "So, livid hopes to create a new architecture for V2ex to run on the IaaS cloud, so that the current fast-growing web site will have more room for imagination in the future." The development code for this new project is PB3. The

PB3 is a community software designed for the IaaS cloud architecture with many innovative interactions. V2ex will be the first PB3 driven community. In the future, PB3 will also provide webmasters who wish to build communities on the IaaS cloud.

It is reported that PB3 will be on the Sheng platform in late April. Sheng is the most complete public cloud platform in China, and it is the IaaS base product chain self-service cloud platform which conforms to the livid development plan.

Coincidentally, the Angeleyes team, which provides resilient cloud image recognition services, has migrated from AWS (Amazon WEB Services) to the Grand cloud. This service is mainly for application layer developers, interactive designers to provide API+SDK, which greatly reduce the application of computer vision technology threshold and cost. When this application is implemented on the mobile phone, it is "Mission 4".

"Because of the lack of a truly meaningful cloud platform in the country, the release of Sheng later aroused our concern and interest." The trial is in line with the ideal deployment environment for our project. "ANgeleyes, "The super agent near the killer, the phone will automatically recognize the face and issue an alert." It is possible for us to make such an application in the future. But first we need a stable backstage support. Rapid deployment, flexible expansion, pay on demand, operational capabilities, now Sheng and other domestic cloud platform can fully meet these needs. "

According to reporters understand that the 2011 domestic cloud computing can be said to be leaps and bounds, although there are market models are not mature and operator bottlenecks and other problems exist, but overall, AWS can provide for an entrepreneur services, the domestic cloud platform has been basically available. Taking into account the slow speed of foreign computer rooms and network instability and other drawbacks, as well as the broad domestic market prospects, many early developers have chosen the "returnees", and some early ideas of the developers also decided to "clouds", with the development of domestic cloud computing, began to start a business.

"It can be said that the development of cloud computing in China is not only attracting" returnees ", but also pulling" domestic demand ". "At a recent Cloudfoundry Cloud developer conference, an industry insider told reporters," on the one hand, the mature overseas application to the domestic platform, can drive the domestic user's active degree and application own development. On the other hand, the maturity of the cloud platform will further reduce the Internet's entrepreneurial threshold, stimulate more valuable innovative applications born, thus forming a virtuous circle. The

(editor: Heritage)