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With the 100% success rate of ticket grabbing, the experts and representatives present felt a little incredible. If this is the case, surely many people will use ticket grabbing software?

Is there a loophole in the 12306 website system?Huizhong's technology is really so awesome. The ticket grabbing software that took a long time to write can have a 100% success rate of grabbing tickets. This is really a slap in the face of the Ministry of Railways!

In the surprise of everyone, Li Wenbin explained:

"According to the research of our technical team, the current ticket-grabbing mechanism of 12306 is to issue tickets according to the order in which the orders are submitted, following the principle of first-come, first-served.

But in fact, no matter how fast the hand speed of our ordinary users is, it can't be faster than the computer. Maybe you just chose to enter the departure and destination here, and the order for the ticket-grabbing software has been submitted.

The consequence of this is that all tickets will be robbed by the ticket-grabbing software first, and the remaining tickets can be bought on the 12306 website. This also has a consequence, no matter how early or punctual the user opens the 12306 official website In some popular trains or when the number of people grabbing tickets during the National Day Spring Festival travel is very large, it is impossible for him to buy tickets."

Li Wenbin’s explanation made the experts present nod frequently, but some experts also put forward different opinions:

"The purpose of the 12306 website is to make it easy for everyone to buy train tickets online. If ticket grabbing software can help users in need to buy tickets, this has actually achieved the purpose of facilitating users. From this perspective, The emergence of ticket-grabbing software is not a serious problem. On the contrary, it can stimulate the establishment of some ticket-grabbing software companies and increase employment!"

Hearing this, Li Wenbin gave the expert a weird look. He must not be an expert in technology. Before Li Wenbin could explain, another expert sitting opposite the expert couldn't stand it and said:

"This is not a problem of non-employment, but a problem of server hosting. The representative Li mentioned earlier that the speed of computers is much faster than that of ordinary people. This means that the ticket purchase process that may have taken three minutes to complete. , It must be completed in half a minute or even a few seconds, so that the entire server system will bear huge pressure.

And, Representative Li, if I guessed right, your ticket-grabbing software system must use a very frequent polling request mechanism, right?"

Li Wenbin smiled and nodded to the expert, and said: "It's time to recurse. The closer to the sale, the shorter the time interval. For example, at 8 o'clock, 10 o'clock, 12 o'clock, etc., the server's The polling request interval is 50ms, which is once every 0.05 seconds!"

"hiss!"

The experts in the audience took a deep breath, once every 0.05 second, which means that a single order needs to request the 12306 server 20 times within 1 second. If 100,000 people use this ticket-grabbing software, it will be 1 second Two million requests, such a request frequency, can only be encountered by a few large Internet companies in BATH.

What's more, during special holidays such as the National Day and the Spring Festival, 12306 sold millions or even tens of millions of tickets every day, and most people would choose to grab tickets when the tickets were first sold, which resulted in 12306. The peak traffic of the website is extremely scary!

Li Wenbin continued: "I believe that with the current 12306 principle of first-come-first-served, a lot of ticket-grabbing software will inevitably emerge. If these software have a high success rate, it will inevitably attract more ordinary users to use the ticket-grabbing software. This creates a vicious circle.

Ticket-grabbing software can generate profits by charging users for service fees. It may even be a scalper and a second-door dealer, grabbing tickets for some popular trains to their own websites and then selling them to users at high prices. The 12306 server has to bear the burden. The more terrifying the traffic peak, the more you have to bear the accusations of those users who actually went to the 12306 website to buy tickets, but couldn't get them!"

"I think we can directly block these ticket-grabbing software requests technically!" An expert said the voice of most experts present at the moment.

"No!" As soon as the expert finished speaking, a decisive voice of objection resounded throughout the audience.

Everyone’s eyes follow the prestige. It was a leader of the Ministry of Railways who spoke. The leader said with a serious expression: “12306 has direct cooperative relations with many domestic travel websites. This incident will block requests from these sites."

After the leader finished speaking, Li Wenbin also added: "Actually, based on our current research, it is these travel websites and Internet companies that are most likely to launch these ticket-grabbing services.

Of course, I personally think that, from the administrative means, these companies should be explicitly prohibited from making ticket-grabbing software or launching ticket-grabbing services, and only retain the booking requirements within a reasonable range. However, the technical difficulty of ticket-grabbing software is not complicated. , Even if we block the existing ticket-grabbing software, new ticket-grabbing software will appear, none of which can solve the fundamental problem.

Director Wang also mentioned that the mobile version of 12306 is also planned to go online next year. By that time, the request volume of the entire website will increase exponentially. In other words, the further you go, the higher the peak traffic of 12306. However, In normal times, the number of visits of 12306 may be hundreds or even thousands of times different from the peak, which causes a huge waste of server resources. Therefore, from the perspective of operating costs, Dr. Wang Jian and I agree that 12306 should use cloud servers. Expand or reduce server resource allocation for different periods.

Next, what I want to introduce to you is the cloud server solution specially launched by Huizhong Cloud for this feature of 12306. With this solution, 12306 does not have to worry about any shortage or waste of server resources, all upgrades or downgrades. The allocation is done automatically in the cloud, which greatly reduces costs without affecting normal business at all.

Including last year's WeChat under Huizhong, the distribution of red envelopes during the Spring Festival, this set of solutions was used as technical support behind it!"

When Li Wenbin patiently explained the solution in front of the projection screen, most of the experts and the leaders of the Ministry of Railways present fully agreed with this solution. You should know that on the night of the Lunar New Year’s Eve last year, there were tens of millions even Hundreds of millions of people grab red envelopes on WeChat at the same time. In comparison, the peak of 12306 is nothing!

After more than two hours, the experts and the leaders of the Ministry of Railways in the entire conference room have basically made a preliminary decision. Most experts and leaders agree that the final solution adopted by 12306 should be from Alibaba and Huizhong. Choose one of the two options.

In terms of company and technical strength, the two companies have their own merits, and it is quite difficult for the experts and the leaders of the Ministry of Railways present to reach a unified opinion.

The person in charge of the Ministry of Railways and several leaders and leading experts who presided over the meeting raised their heads after whispering a few words, "We believe that in terms of technical strength, Alibaba and Huizhong are both extremely outstanding and outstanding. Enough to improve the work of 12306.

However, although 12306's website construction is a people's livelihood project, it is also spent on the country and taxpayers' money. Therefore, we have decided to give priority to and choose the one of the two of you with the lower cost and price!"

"Come!" Wang Jian's palms were already sweating, but Li Wenbin's face was relaxed!

The assistant sitting next to Wang Jian carefully stood up and handed the prepared quotation to the person in charge, as did Li Wenbin.

The eyes of the audience gathered on the person in charge of the Ministry of Railways who had two quotations in his hand. Although neither party made an open offer like an ordinary bidding meeting, no one in the room dared to say anything. , Is it possible to still dare to suspect insider trading?

What's more, according to regulations, the Ministry of Railways will definitely announce the results of this tender after the meeting. Whether it is Alibaba or Huizhong's quotation, it will be clear at that time!

Everyone only saw that when the person in charge opened the second quotation on behalf of Huizhong, his brows were slightly frowned, and then he looked up at Li Wenbin, and then handed the two quotations to other leaders of the Ministry of Railways nearby for review.

While some of the business representatives on the field were thinking, the person in charge said: "The winner of this tender is Huizhong Company!"

The eyes of the audience focused on Li Wenbin. Some corporate representatives who failed the bid also verbally expressed congratulations to him and Huizhong. At this time, Wang Jian, the representative of Alibaba, turned pale. He didn't understand. Their team was in details. After investigating and studying the approximate costs of several potential competitors such as Huizhong, why did the quotation drawn at a loss of tens of millions of dollars still lose?

Li Wenbin, who was accepting congratulations from the crowd, swept away Wang Jian's eyes. He could only express regret. He knew that no matter what quotation Alibaba Cloud gave, Huizhong would win in the end, because, on Huizhong’s quotation, only I wrote a sentence: "10 million lower than other people's quotations!"

Li Wenbin still remembers what Fang Da’s boss said to himself that day: “One of our goals is not to give our competitors any chance of comeback. Although we can win as low as 1 million, we must always show our sincerity. 10 million is good!"