Villain’s Programming - Chapter 293



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Episode 293 Beijing Region

Jeff Bezos looks proud as he looks at the AWS Beijing region.

‘Finally! We’ve set up an AWS region in China.’

Region refers to the location where AWS installed infrastructure to provide services.

Naturally, in the places where the region was installed, there were tens of thousands of servers installed, and in collaboration with telecommunications companies, numerous lines were installed. Not only that. In preparation for a power outage, a huge number of standby generators were prepared.

‘It cost a lot of money, but unlike other countries, China was particularly difficult.’

Because China is so exclusive, it wasn’t easy for AWS to enter. However, Jeff pushed through with determination and was eventually able to establish an AWS region in Beijing, the capital of China.

Jeff walked inside the AWS center. There were a lot of servers humming.

It was definitely a wonderful and satisfying scene, but at the same time, it made me sigh.

“Ha. It’s good, really good. I can’t help but like it. Why at this time of all times… .”

All preparations were done, but the problem arose from an unexpected place. Not long ago, Google decided to ‘withdraw from China’.

Google’s withdrawal sparked distrust of foreign IT companies in China, some of which even led to boycotts.

‘The problem is that it was we who were hit directly by it.’

We tried to sign contracts with Chinese companies in time for the opening of the AWS Beijing region, but no companies were willing to sign contracts.

Even companies that had pre-contracted were canceling.

‘This is a big deal. Even if I can hold out for a while… it can’t continue like this… … .’

Even just breathing was draining the region of enormous amounts of money. The monthly electricity bill alone was in the hundreds of millions, and considering the employees’ salaries and building maintenance costs, they needed to generate income as soon as possible.

‘What should I do? Should I give more discount?’

It was when Jeff sighed more, worrying about such things.

“Jeff.”

Someone called his name. Jeff turned his head and saw the person he wanted to see standing there.

“Dojun!”

Jeff ran over to Dojun and hugged him happily. After exchanging greetings, the two sat down in the break room.

“By the way, Jeff, I saw you sighing earlier. What’s wrong?”

“Ha. I see you saw that.”

Jeff said as he turned to Dojun and swirled the coffee in his coffee cup with a stick.

“Actually… there is a problem.”

* * *

“AWS Beijing Region.”

Minmay shouted in a tone that suggested that Dojun’s words had just occurred to her.

– Oh! I remember! AWS Beijing region! Oh my gosh, it’s open?

“It opens in two days. I’m going to Beijing tomorrow for that too. Minmay. Do you know what to do?”

– Yes! AWS can solve the problem now. But Bilibili is in urgent need right now. You said you are going to open the sand? Then, considering the time it takes to move the server, it seems like it will take ten days to normalize Bilibili?

“Minmay, who am I?”

At Dojun’s words, Minmay said, “Ah!”

– AWS founder! The top executive who can do anything related to AWS! My fighter!

“Yes, your boss is that kind of person. So come to Beijing quickly. I have a good idea.”

– Okay. Thank you, Sabu. I’ll go with Representative Chen Rui.

Do-jun hung up the phone and immediately called the general affairs manager.

“Chief, can I get a DVD of the anime list here? Right now, in DVD form.”

Dojun showed the list of animations that Biribiri had purchased this time.

“Are you talking about this much?”

“yes.”

The general affairs manager thought for a moment and then answered.

“I’ll have everything ready before dinner.”

The general affairs manager kept his promise. He brought 100 DVDs before dinner.

Dojun put it in a big bag and went home. After having dinner with Sally, Dojun boarded a plane to Beijing.

When we arrived in Beijing, it was dawn. After going to the hotel and taking a quick nap, Dojun went straight to the AWS Beijing Center.

There were a lot of Chinese people, probably because they had hired new employees. But there were also people from Amazon headquarters everywhere.

“Dojun!”

“Director!”

They greeted Dojun happily.

“But I don’t see Jeff. Is Jeff here?”

“Of course. I saw you heading towards the server room earlier. Should I show you around?”

“No. Just tell me the location. It’s probably the server room.”

Dojun heard the location of the server room from a head office employee and went up to the 4th floor.

When he got off on the 4th floor, a security guard stopped Do-jun. When Do-jun showed the AWS ‘Director’ business card, the guard was surprised and guided Do-jun to the server room.

Dojun entered the server room and opened his mouth.

‘Wow, what number is this?’

Servers were humming along on the entire floor.

‘Even if you can’t do it, it looks like you can do it by more than four thousand.’

The center where the AWS Beijing region is located has a very large area.

‘The server room is from the 4th to the 6th floor, right? If it costs 4,000 on this one floor alone, it’ll easily exceed 10,000. The maintenance costs alone are no joke.’

Dojun looked around with his mouth wide open at the enormous scale. Then he discovered a man.

‘It’s Jeff!’

Dojun approached Jeff from behind, but Jeff was sighing loudly.

“Jeff.”

Jeff looked back in surprise at Dojun’s words, then quickly hugged Dojun with a happy face.

“Dojun!”

The two people hugged happily and exchanged greetings.

“Jeff. How have you been?”

“No. I wasn’t doing well. Don’t you know it now that you look at me? I feel like even ten bodies wouldn’t be enough because of someone.”

Dojun asked, releasing the hug.

“Haha. But you still make a lot of money thanks to AWS, right?”

“That’s right. Right now, 50% of Amazon’s sales come from AWS. Do you know what they call you at work?”

“What did you say?”

“Midas. He is called the Touch of Midas because everything he touches becomes successful.”

Dojun chuckled.

“I fail a lot too. By the way, Jeff. What’s wrong? I thought you were sighing from behind.”

Jeff Bezos thought for a moment and then said,

“Well, even if I lied to you, you’d know right away. I’ll be honest with you. Do you know about Google’s withdrawal?”

“Of course. I’m… an outside director at Google.”

“Oh, right. So you know this too? Because of Google’s withdrawal, the perception of foreign IT companies in China is not good.”

“ah!”

The moment Dojun heard those words, he realized why Jeff had sighed.

“Aren’t there any companies that contract with AWS?”

“It used to be there, but it’s gone. I think everyone is just watching. I’m worried that if I use AWS for no reason, I’ll be hated by the Chinese people. I don’t think it’ll be profitable in Beijing for a while.”

Dojun chuckled as he watched Jeff Bezos speak feebly.

“Jeff, if I solve that, will you give me some special treatment?”

Jeff’s eyes widened for a moment.

“What? Is there a solution?”

“I’ll connect you with a company to sign your first contract with.”

“Thank you, thank you. If you could connect me, I guess it’s a game company? It won’t make much money, but it would be symbolic.”

Dojun shook his head at Jeff’s words.

“No. This is the first contract, so that’s not enough. How about a company that uses over 100 terabytes of data and can sign a contract for over 10 years?”

Jeff’s eyes widened.

“Oh my god, 100 tera? Is there a company like that in China?”

“Yes. It’s called Bilibili, a video service company. It’s the company that will become China’s YouTube.”

Jeff understood everything when he heard the Chinese version of YouTube. The videos were usually large in size. Larger sizes meant higher costs.

Jeff grabbed Dojun’s hand.

“You are indeed the savior of the Amazon! What do you want?”

“Special discount?”

“Special discount? Haha. Don’t worry. Since you’re my first customer, I’ll give you a 50% discount.”

“50%? Thanks, Jeff.”

“But what is this between us?”

Jeff laughed heartily, feeling really good.

“But Jeff, there’s one more thing I’d like to ask you.”

“What? I’ll do whatever I can.”

Dojun said with a serious expression.

“All AWS Beijing employees, please help us transfer the data so that we can have the service available tomorrow.”

* * *

Minmay and Chenrui took a plane from Shanghai and came straight to Beijing.

The two people who arrived at the AWS Beijing Center met Dojun. But there was no time to even say hello.

“Quickly connect the overseas server and AWS server and move the main page source!”

Chen Rui asked with a blank expression.

“Huh? The main page?”

“Yes. I can’t even connect right now. I need to fix this quickly.”

“However, moving only the main page is of little use. Everyone comes here to watch videos, and the video data is large. It will take more than ten days just to move it.”

At Chen Rui’s words, Do Jun took his hands off the laptop and asked.

“What is the most popular service on Bilibili right now?”

“… It’s animation.”

“Then, if we just move the animation to AWS, it will be much better?”

“However, the animation file size is large, so it will take a long time to transfer it all. Also, the server is located overseas, so it is very slow.”

It was then that Dojun smiled and handed a bag to Chenrui. Chenrui, who received the bag, stumbled for a moment under the weight.

“What…what is this?”

“Open it.”

When Chen Rui opened it, it was full of animation DVDs.

“What is this?”

“Can’t you tell if you look? It’s an animation DVD.”

“No. Why this?”

“I know that the overseas servers are located overseas. It would take a long time to physically move them.”

Dojun continued speaking while taking out a DVD.

“But what if we encoded this DVD and moved it to an AWS server?”

“No, this much? Rather, that time is more… … .”

It was then that Minmay, who was listening from the side, shouted.

“Oh my god. Sabu, are you really a genius? Then it wouldn’t take 10 hours, no, not even 5 hours?”

Chen Rui, who was standing next to him, asked.

“What does that mean?”

“Mr. Chen Rui, how long does it take to convert one DVD?”

“Well… it depends on the length and computer specifications, but it should take about 1 to 2 hours.”

“Then how about converting 100 of them?”

“Well… … .”

Chen Rui, who was speaking, looked around. This was the AWS center. There were a lot of computers, even if they weren’t necessarily servers.

“If 100 people rush in, it will be over in 2 hours.”

Minmay laughed heartily.

“And more importantly, this is an AWS center. You can upload files to AWS servers without network delays. And you can upload 100 files in parallel, not one by one. Of course, you will need help from AWS employees.”

At Minmay’s words, Dojun stroked Minmay’s head.

“Get off, Minmay.”

“Hehe. I still have a long way to go. I will learn from Sabu until I die.”

“Really? Then I’ll teach you more. Move now! There’s no time!”

Chenrui and Minmay took action at Dojun’s shouting. They worked with AWS staff to encode the DVD.

Once the encoding was complete, all Amazon employees would hop on board and start uploading the encoded files to the servers.

The Bilibili staff were not idle either. They moved the AWS Bilibili server source and modified the source to link when data was uploaded to AWS.

As a result of working all night, all 100 DVD videos were uploaded to the Bilibili server by 11:00 AM the next day.

Of course, it was only a very small percentage of the total BiriBiri data, but that small percentage was the ‘animation’ data that was generating the most traffic right now.

As this data was serviced by ‘Beijing AWS’, the ‘Bilibili’ outage was immediately resolved.

Dojun immediately connected to the Chinese community.

– Seriously, I came here because I heard I could watch anime on Bilibili, but I was so disappointed. I’m never coming back.

– That’s right. You have to be connected to do whatever you want!

There were still many complaints in the community, but as time passed, other posts began to appear.

– Hey, are you able to connect without any problems?

– Huh? Really? You can log in too!

– Crazy. The animation plays well too? How did you do it?

– Wow! You solved the problem in just two days? Chinese games usually go through maintenance for a week after they open and the servers go down, but here, you solved it in two days?

– Hey, not all of them. The anime is fine, but the rest of it is still slow.

– I’m not interested in anything other than anime. And with this technology, won’t that place be normalized soon?

Dojun laughed brightly after seeing the comments. Dojun looked at Jeff, Minmay, and Chenrui around him.

They all looked tired, perhaps because they had stayed up all night. Dojun spoke to them.

“It seems to have been successful.”

At those words, three people shouted loudly.

“and!”

“This is crazy!”

“Finally, we’ve made it to China!”

Perhaps because they had been working hard together all night, the three of them hugged each other and jumped around.

After a while Jeff looked at everyone and said.

“Oh, by the way, today is the opening day, but we couldn’t even have the opening ceremony.”

Dojun stood up and spoke.

“If we don’t have an opening ceremony, we’ll be in big trouble!”

“Haha. Right. Let’s all go together!”

The Beijing AWS region opening ceremony wasn’t as flashy as other region openings.

However, it ended with Jeff and Dojun taking off the signboard curtain together and applauding loudly.

But the people here were more proud of the following than any other opening ceremony. They all worked together to successfully launch the first event before it even opened.

Jeff told everyone.

“Come on, Representative Minmay, Representative Chenrui. Come here, let’s all take a photo at the opening ceremony.”

“Huh? We’re not Amazon employees.”

Jeff shook his head at Minmay’s words.

“Didn’t we all open AWS together? We’re qualified.”

A while later, I took a photo of the AWS Beijing opening ceremony. The photo showed AWS staff, Minmay, and Chenrui all smiling brightly.

And in the middle of that picture were two people with their arms around each other. Dojun and Jeff Bezos.

* * *

“Wow, it’s snowing. Ah, it’s December.”

Dojun smiled as he caught the snow falling from the sky with his hand.

‘I think I worked hard this year too.’

Do-jun, who arrived at the company, recalled everything that had happened this year one by one.

‘Was the closest thing you’ve ever done the Bilibili acquisition? And then there was the AWS Beijing region thing, too.’

Biri Biri was a huge hit.

Bilibili, the first company in China to purchase official animation copyrights and launch a video service, has seen its company grow by more than three times in just a few months thanks to the overwhelming response from users.

‘You said you have over a thousand employees now?’

That wasn’t all. Do-jun opened his mailbox. There was a report from Chen Rui there.

‘We really signed a contract with a Korean broadcasting station.’

The Korean Wave is a huge trend in China right now. Everything is popular, whether it’s pop music, dramas, or games.

Do-jun advised Chen Rui to sign a formal contract with a ‘Korean broadcasting station’ in addition to ‘animation’.

‘Even if it’s already been broadcast on a Chinese broadcasting station, there will be many people who want to see it. If we provide a drama service targeting them, I’m sure it will be a great success.’

The results were right before our eyes. The number of visitors had increased several-fold.

‘Maybe next year we’ll have over three thousand employees.’

Although Bilibili was a huge success, the AWS Beijing region was an even bigger success.

Rumors were circulating in the Chinese IT industry that Bilibili had normalized its traffic by using AWS.

IT companies that saw this began to use AWS one by one. Word of its good service, price, and quality spread quickly, and many Chinese IT companies began to use AWS.

It was then that the door to the CEO’s office opened and the general affairs manager came in.

“Sir, everything is ready.”

“Oh, really? I’ll go out right away.”

Do-jun got up from his seat, left the CEO’s office, and followed the general affairs manager to the conference room.

All of Black Cat’s employees were gathered there.

There was a huge screen on the podium in the conference room, and Do-jun went up to the podium.

Dojun looked at the staff. Everyone had a slightly surprised expression on their face.

It was the same for Dojun too.

“There is an old saying that victory and defeat are like a battle between two people. We did our best. Now let’s see the results.”

When Dojun came down from the podium, the staff applauded loudly.

After a while, the lights went out and an image started to appear on the screen.

The video showed a place that looked like a concert hall, with a large crowd of people gathered there.

The host was the famous actor Samuel L. Jackson.

Samuel shouted into the microphone.

[Now let’s start the Spike Video Game Awards.]

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