The most surprising thing is that Yu Xingyou not only achieved "the genealogy on the cloud", but also participated in the cloud computing event - Yunqi Conference twice at his own expense with his interest and enthusiasm in technology. ". I heard that Jack Ma will also attend the Yunqi Conference held in Hangzhou on October 11. "I would like to meet Jack Ma when I have the opportunity."
Yu Xingyou's passion for technology is not a whim. "When I was young, I was an engineer in a salt factory. I used to be a professor of materials science at Sichuan University. I have been very interested in technology since I was a child. In the 1980s, I was one of the first people who started computer programming in Chengdu. Over the years, I have used 8 computers. ."
The old gentleman is on his way to renew the network fee
Getting into cloud computing is purely accidental. In May 2016, Yu Xingyou was playing with his mobile phone at home when he accidentally saw a Chengdu media report on the upcoming "Yunqi Conference" in Chengdu. From the report, he learned that it was a "very high-tech, many young I went to the conference." Although he didn't know what cloud computing was, he still carried a small bag and a camera with great interest, and wanted to "see a novelty".
Through this participation, the "post-80s" old man developed a strong interest in the distributed collaboration of cloud computing, and the following story gave him the idea of moving his "family tree" to the cloud. At the beginning of this year, Yu Xingyou took his granddaughter to Hangzhou for a trip, and stopped by relatives. At the relative's house, he met an unexpected person - the grandson of his cousin.
"I lived in my 80s, and it was the first time I knew that I had a cousin." Yu Xingyou recalled that he had experienced various social changes and huge historical turmoil before and after the founding of New China in his life, "I am from Ningbo, and in 51 years I have I went to study in Shanghai, and when I graduated from high school in 1955, I came home and found that my family had moved, my family tree was lost, and many relatives were lost." After graduating from high school, he came to Chengdu to go to college, where he started a family and a business. Regrettably, his cousin had already passed away due to his advanced age. In order to no longer leave such regrets, Yu Xingyou embarked on the path of "writing a family tree" to find his relatives.
"I can't complete such a huge genealogy revision by myself. Since cloud computing can achieve distributed collaboration, can we use this method to let the scattered 'Yu' clansmen work together to complete this work?" 2017 In May of this year, Yu Xingyou once again participated in the Chengdu Summit of the Yunqi Conference held in Chengdu. This time he came with the wish of "cultivating genealogy". At the scene, he found an Alibaba Cloud engineer and came up with this "whimsical" idea.
"I later told my technical classmates about this idea. Everyone was very positive. It only took 3 days to set up this website. The old man was very happy and even posted this website in their family group. , the family tree of nine generations has now been sorted out." The engineer responsible for helping Yu Xingyou "upgrade the genealogy to the cloud" said that he had contacted many different types of customers, but an 80-year-old old man could take the initiative to "upgrade the genealogy to the cloud". surprise him.