On the first day of online remote work, I wonder if the remote office tools you use are still smooth? How is work efficiency?
Editor’s note: This article comes from InfoQ (WeChat public account ID: infoqchina).
Author 丨 Zhao Yuying, Tina, Chen Si, Li Dongmei
In order to prevent and control the new pneumonia epidemic, many domestic provinces and cities have called for extended holidays, and major Internet companies have responded positively. According to the previously announced resumption schedule of Internet companies, most Internet companies choose to extend the holiday to February 2, February 3 to February 7, and work from home on February 10. On the first day of online remote work, I wonder if the remote office tools you use are still smooth? How is work efficiency?
1 Are you offline on the first day of telecommuting?
On the first day of online construction, starting at 9 am, major office software ushered in peak traffic, and the messages of major collaborative office tools in the circle of friends swipe the screen instantly. The Dingpin message was displayed unread for a long time, and the video conference stalled; other online tools also had problems to varying degrees. Corporate WeChat also collapsed, and many netizens complained: On the first day of the country’s remote start, the company’s WeChat blew up, and then found that Tencent started to work on the 10th. However, QQ is rated as the best artifact for today’s video conference by netizens.
Ding Ding An enterprise service consultant responded to user feedback that Ding Ding video server is expanding to support more concurrent multi-party conference support. As a ToB product, Dingding’s business scenario is very different from ToC’s IM product, and it also focuses on the architecture. It has already prepared for possible large traffic impacts. For example, in the festive scene, some large groups of messages are sent too frequently, which may exceed the overall system capacity and affect the stability of the IM system. If a lower sending threshold is set for each group, the system does not fully use its capacity, thus providing a sufficiently smooth user experience. In response to this problem, Dingding designed an intelligent flow limiting method. When the overall traffic exceeds the system threshold, it automatically limits the large group of messages sent relatively frequently according to the situation.
Even so, Dingding and WeChat may not have expected such a huge online traffic shock today. As of press time,