Kingsoft Office Technology Open Day 2022: The Way to Scale in the Document Cloud-Native Era

On August 26, Kingsoft Office held the 2022 Technology Open Day event with the theme of "The Way of Scale" in Zhuhai. Kingsoft Office Vice President Yao Dong, Kingsoft Office Technology Committee Executive Chairman Pi Xialin, Kingsoft Office Senior R&D Director Huang Chuantong, Kingsoft Office Private Cloud Expert Chen Liang and other guests delivered keynote speeches. With the cloud, collaborative office is growing exponentially at an exponential scale.

With the cloud, there is the possibility of collaboration, and with collaboration, users can create more value. Office software is entering the cloud-native era, and software architecture design and management methods are quietly changing.

Entering the cloud-native era of documents, documents can be used at any time

At the meeting, Huang Chuantong, senior R&D director of Kingsoft Office and head of cloud platform, said that we have entered the "document cloud-native era", and in the keynote speech, he shared how the architecture design of software development adapts to the cloud-native environment.

What is Document Cloud Native? Cloud native technology itself is an approach to building and running applications that takes advantage of the cloud computing delivery model. When enterprises use cloud-native architecture to develop and operate applications, office applications represented by online documents, online forms, and online forms are naturally designed to run optimally on the cloud. Cloud native in the office scenario can achieve: "documents are born in the cloud, stored in the cloud, edited in the cloud, and flown in the cloud", while office cloud native applications have the ability to "get it at your fingertips, use it, share it at any time, and facilitate collaboration", etc. Outstanding advantages.

It is understood that Kingsoft Office's document cloud native service supports the ultra-large-scale digital office business, creating core business operations carrying 570 million active user devices, over 150 billion cloud documents, 270PB cloud document storage, and millions of QPS (per It is also one of the best cloud-native practice benchmarks for digital transformation in the cloud office field.

In order to support the business form development of cloud office services, from 2009 to 2022, the architecture of WPS cloud services has evolved from monolithic applications to distributed architectures, to DevOps+ containerization, microservices, and officially entering the cloud Native offers four eras of hybrid cloud scalability. In the whole process, extremely high requirements are put forward for the "speed" and "agility" indicators of service development: for example, it must support the ability to quickly update large-scale cloud services, the service must have high robustness, and the self-healing ability of faults, etc.

Huang Chuantong emphasized that Kingsoft Office has been investing heavily in the construction of cloud-native security infrastructure in recent years, and has started to build "three centers in two places" (production center, disaster recovery center in the same city, and disaster recovery center in different places). All data will be backed up in different regions. In extreme disaster situations, it can achieve second-level switching capabilities, and in the past year, it has achieved "four 9"-level service high availability - more than 99.99% of the year's services are available.

Beijing Winter Olympics, Best Practices for Cloud-Native Application Delivery

Cloud native is a complete system that includes a complete technology stack from development, deployment to operation and maintenance. In addition to development, O&M technologies on the cloud are also developing rapidly, especially for privatized deployments.

In 2022, the Beijing Winter Olympics will be successfully held, which will be the most-watched and most digital Winter Olympics to date. As an official collaborative office software provider, Kingsoft Office provides a private cloud deployment solution for the Winter Olympics Organizing Committee. The solution adopts a cloud-native technology stack, supports cloud storage of documents, and multi-person online collaboration of documents.

Chen Liang, a private cloud expert of Kingsoft Office, said in "Technical Support Behind the Ice and Snow Event - Cloud Native Application Delivery and Operation and Maintenance in Private Cloud Scenarios": "In the case of the Winter Olympics, Kingsoft Office faced two challenges: first, cross-regional office collaboration, including the office collaboration of venues, teams, and headquarters staff, as well as collaboration with the International Olympic Organizing Committee, is characterized by complex deployment environments, difficult operation and maintenance, and difficulty in ensuring availability; secondly, the data security requirements of the Winter Olympics are among the top in the world. standard level."

In order to solve these two problems, Kingsoft Office originally designed a set of "private cloud base" (kubewps), and formed a standard "1 hour" efficient deployment service process: First, realize environment containerization and shield environment differences , Compatible with multiple operating systems to solve the problem of deployment dependencies; second, realize configuration template, pre-define the best role allocation according to the number of nodes, and reduce the configuration of the post-event; third, the management platform provides a platform for the Winter Olympics Organizing Committee. A set of visual operation and maintenance system, clearly showing the monitoring operation and maintenance results.

After more than 800 days, Kingsoft Office assisted the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee Technology Department to complete the independent R&D and construction of the collaborative office system and the other three business systems, handled more than 800 problem work orders, provided more than 4,000 hours of technical support, and reached 100% of the problems. The solution rate was successfully completed with the achievement of "zero accident".

Both technical thickness and management innovation

"Technology" is an important strategy of Kingsoft Office, and insisting on programmer culture is the precious gene of Kingsoft Office.

On the technology open day, Yao Dong, Vice President of Kingsoft Office, shared the experience and insights of WPS in the practice of super-large-scale software management for more than 30 years in his keynote speech on "Super-Large-scale Software Project Management". Yao Dong said: "To do a super large-scale software project well, not only need technical ability, product ability, but also management ability, and use management to promote technological innovation, efficiency improvement and quality improvement."

A special guest, Zhang Lixin, the head of research and development of WPS 97 version, was also invited to attend the event. Zhang Lixin joined WPS in 1992 and has participated in the development of Pangu components, WPS 97, WPS 2000, WPS Office and other software successively. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Zhang Lixin's joining Jinshan. Zhang Lixin said: "The wisdom of generations of Jinshan people has accumulated the technical depth of WPS, which has created the scale of WPS products. With thickness and scale, Jinshan Office will surely make great progress."

In order to meet the continuous demands of the industry, the production and research team of Kingsoft Office continued to grasp the changes in technological trends and insisted on exploring the form of a new generation of office products. According to the 2021 annual report data, in 2021, Jinshan Office will invest 1.082 billion yuan in production and research expenses. R&D will make long-term reserves around the direction of "cloud and digitalization", and the investment will continue to increase. The latest data shows that the total number of R&D personnel in Kingsoft Office is 2,816, and R&D personnel account for nearly 70% of the company's total personnel.