An exclusive interview with Li Wenyi, the first MVP of Alibaba Cloud - a post-90s generation who "returned from evil"

Abstract: Wen Yi has always believed that "there are only two occupations in the future world, one is IT personnel and the other is non-IT personnel, and all work will be done by computers".

Foreword: This is the first time I saw Li Wenyi at the Shanghai Yunqi Conference. I was surprised that he was much younger than I imagined, but he had rich experience. Let’s get to know this tossing post-90s.



From the first Win95, Crazy obsessed with computers, since childhood, anyone who has anything to do with computers is the first.

In high school, I played VB, html, network protocols and servers, and I skipped a level by the way.

When I went to university, I started to study network engineering seriously, and it was not a problem to engage in DDOS attacks, explode a database or something.

Metasploit, kali and other system security vulnerability scanning tools are very good at playing, and most Win2003 servers can directly hang up as long as they know the IP.

At that time, the domestic Internet was in the outbreak period, and the network security environment was really worrying. Li Wenyi often fantasized that he was a hacker.



After graduation, Li Wenyi worked as an operation and maintenance engineer in an old IDC.

In 2011, at the beginning of cloud computing, the company was preparing for a transformation to make efforts to cloud computing.

He spent a month researching cloud-related services on the market, from Baidu Netdisk to Amazon AWS.

In the end, the plan he submitted to the company was to purchase several sets of commercial versions of Citrix enterprise-level virtualization software, build a cluster with servers and storage, virtualize many cloud hosts, and then create a management panel based on the API for customers to use. Shutting down, restarting, switching systems, and other operations, this solution is somewhat similar to Alibaba Cloud's ECS today.

In 2012, this set of cloud hosts was officially launched and sold very well. The price of a 1-core 1G cloud host was as high as 2,000 yuan a year. After calculating the software, hardware and IDC costs, the cost was only 100 yuan per unit. Later, Alibaba Cloud broke out and launched a very competitive cloud host, and the products of other manufacturers were basically bleak.



After that, he worked in a large company to manage a private cloud platform, and was overwhelmed by the system failures of more than 3,000 cloud hosts every day;

he also opened a restaurant, and with his familiarity with the Internet, he used WeChat public account, Meituan, and Dianping. He played well and killed other shops in seconds;

he also started his own business and started an Internet company with a friend, mainly engaged in website building and online marketing.



After tossing around for a long time, he calmed down and summed up his gains and losses and thoughts along the way:

1. Try not to touch traditional industries, the external economic environment is not strong.

2. Hold tight to the thigh of the industry. At present, it seems that the thigh is only BAT

. 3. The higher-end industries are more promising, such as cloud computing and big data. The threshold is high, the demand is large, and the competition is relatively less intense.

Fourth, it is better to buy a house than start a business. (Just kidding, haha.



Soon , Li Wenyi reorganized his luggage and set off again, joined Zhuyun Technology, and after a period of operation and maintenance, he gradually took over monitoring and operation and maintenance development work.

As a service provider of Alibaba Cloud, Zhuyun will provide a large number of cloud products. It has been applied to the operation and maintenance work, such as DataV, which is now one of our company's main products - ServiceBoard.

Li Wenyi led the team to take out the operation and maintenance data through the monitoring platform and connect it to the DataV data visualization tool to obtain a real-time operation and maintenance board , to visually display the operation and maintenance and operation data of the project. Due to the wide range of data displayed on the large screen, the process of data integration lasted for a month, and the backend was applied to many systems, such as ELK, Zabbix, Cloudcare, CSOS, Monitor Treasure.



Thoughts on being selected as Alibaba Cloud MVP:
I am fortunate to be the first batch of Alibaba Cloud MVPs in the world, and to experience the latest technologies in cloud computing and big data.

In China's technology field, in addition to the military and academic institutions, The most advanced should be Alibaba Cloud. Alibaba Cloud's products are very suitable for enterprises to use.

As an MVP, what I need to do is to integrate cloud products into the enterprise and bring the needs of the enterprise to Alibaba Cloud. From the perspective of Alibaba Cloud's products, products in the field of artificial intelligence are gradually expanding, which is also the main battlefield for the next change. Unlike operating systems and cloud computing, AI basic services have low substitutability, and products that occupy the market at the very beginning will basically occupy the market permanently. I hope we can keep up with Alibaba Cloud's footsteps and don't miss this opportunity.      



About the future
Wen Yi has always believed that "there are only two occupations in the future world, one is IT personnel and the other is non-IT personnel, and all work will be done by computers".

As the relationship between technology and power becomes more and more close, offensive and defensive security becomes particularly important.

In the past few years, the public network security has been riddled with holes in general. Except for a few IT giants, other companies are actually very vulnerable. Basically, a small hacker team can find a random application or internal security loophole to be destroyed. The recently promulgated cybersecurity law also shows that the country attaches great importance to this. After all, technology is now a very important part of the entire society.

Security attack and defense is also the direction I want to focus on in the future.

ff51c87389d05429c3d07788ced22918b1e98adf I'm Wen Yi, Director of Operations and Development, I'm waiting for you at Alibaba Cloud MVP