preface

It is my honor to attend ArchSummit2017 conference this week. This article will briefly introduce ArchSummit and summarize the main content and feelings of individuals attending the conference.

ArchSummit profile

ArchSummit is the InfoQ China team’s technology conference for high-end technology managers and architects. More than 50% of the participants have more than 8 years of experience. To put it figuratively, when you go to the bathroom at this conference, it’s either a CTO or an architect. ArchSummit participation methods: 1. Online registration should be the most common way, the full price of 6800 yuan. 2. Sponsors must have a lot of seats, the price is unknown. 3. Of course, lecturers can also attend the conference, which is paid by the organizer.

The main content

The content of ArchSummit is rich and colorful, including keynote speeches of major tasks representing industry trends and sub-sessions of micro-services, artificial intelligence, front-end, internationalization, big data and other sub-fields. Since each sub-session starts at the same time, everyone can only choose the speech to attend according to their own preferences. There are so many choices to choose from that it can be very painful for people with dyspraxia, but thankfully I didn’t. I mainly chose presentations related to architecture, AI, and team culture.

Keynote speech

I have listened to the keynote speech, people are really much ah, ten minutes in advance of the entrance can only sit the last two rows, then a large number of people standing to hear, the scene is quite spectacular. 1. Dr. Wang Jian’s innovation is the confidence of human beings. This speech did not involve technology, but something about highlevel, which made me feel different from ali Cloud. 2. Ding Yu alibaba cloud architecture of the road of innovation Undoubtedly ali cloud platform on the application of absolute is a domestic leading level, to the speech, we can see a cloud technology matures and fall to the ground, before the double 11 is a political task, have no matter what cost is successful, and now is how to apply a cloud platform can reduce cost, and get things done. I don’t remember much else.

Sub-venue

In my opinion, the main course of ArcSummit is the sub-conference. After all, keynote speeches are of high height. Celebrities often come to the stage to improve their popularity. The choice is pretty high. I mainly selected the following three aspects of the speech to attend. How to improve system performance and stability without changing a single line of code This report is also the first in a series of reports that I have participated in, so I strongly recommend it. Seconds kill what to do, for example, most people would say cache, load balancing, and so on, but said the higher-ups gave a suggestion in the gateway layer on each request directly to a random number, according to the probability to determine whether to pass, if random number did not meet the requirements will directly return to the end, I estimate jingdong rob volume is the routine. There are many topics related to CloudNative, mainly around Kubernetes and Serverless. Basically, they are promoting AWS related products. AWS has done a pretty good job of finding AWS tools for FAAS and Serverice Mesh, as well as offering a full suite of solutions in security, big data, finance, DevOps, and even IOT. It’s also worth a look.

1.3 High availability practice of Didi’s platform Didi’s speech is also full of solid facts, and it can be seen that they are stepped out one step at a time. Its technical solution looks very practical, worthy of being hammered out with the support of Tencent and through business. The relevant PPT is worth a look. This speech focuses on how this product fights against the black industry and how to improve user experience on the network level. It is worthy of being a product of Tencent, with a wide range of ideas and vision. 2.1 Engineer Culture and Engineers in Culture Introduced by the management personnel of Amazon, I feel that Amazon’s culture is close to engineers, which is very silicon Valley style but rigorous. Engineers are given a very high degree of freedom, but rules are rules, and there are very strong red lines. Such as service2 and onCall systems, such as automated testing, such as all kinds of heavy documentation. 2.2 Achievement and Growth — The driving force of the engineer team This was spoken by a person from Baidu, who mainly talked about a lot of down-to-earth team management issues, such as career direction, dimission and team building, and gave a lot of practical suggestions. PaddlePaddle framework is mainly introduced by the person in charge of Baidu. PaddlePaddle framework is a machine learning highlevel framework developed by Baidu. However, whether TensorFlow has become a fact standard remains to be considered. However, we have to admit that this framework has the advantage of being a late mover, and there are many thoughtful places designed for developers. 3.2 the unlock depth video understanding potential This speech, hosted by Microsoft research is basically a current review of artificial intelligence finally said once about based on video understanding breakthrough, the core is to adopt the method of learning will be unified in the perspective of video so you can solve the problem of video diverse perspective, treatment effect significantly improved.

conclusion

I think it is very important to have a thorough understanding of the baseline of your industry. Otherwise, you will be building low-level wheels all the time. At best, it will be fun for yourself. Expand the network of lecturers attending the meeting there are many real heroes, borrow this opportunity to know the industry leaders, expand their circle, the worst can also meet later to say that I have heard your class, and the organizers also intimate special arrangement of the lecturer meeting for everyone to exchange. 3. Learning knowledge learning knowledge and solutions are the last ancillary products, after all, each speech is less than an hour, it is unlikely to solve the actual problem, the most is to let you know the idea, lead the way to give some hints. Others: 1. It can be seen from the sponsors that cloud platform has become the mainstream of the industry. From Ali Cloud to AWS, from service monitoring to Jeva’s operation and maintenance services, all of them are carried out around cloud platform. 2. K8s is now the industry standard in micro services. There is no objection. 3. Here is a preview. I will share the experience of participating in archSummit2017 in 3-4 times in the company. 4. Artificial intelligence has entered the application layer. Many video, big data, financial and other companies are trying to solve problems in the field through artificial intelligence algorithms, which is also a sign that artificial intelligence has begun to fall into the ground. This is very similar to the cloud platform of the last few years. At first, everyone talked about it but it was either a showoff or a joke, and then only a few people talked about how to combine it with the application, and finally no one talked about it but everyone was using it. 5. The conference has a strong commercial smell. All lecturers want to support their own products and recommend their own products.