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The language barrier has been their main issue, they'd definitely would love to collaborate more with teams outside of China I know. They have an astonishing am

by org3432 10y ago

The language barrier has been their main issue, they'd definitely would love to collaborate more with teams outside of China I know. They have an astonishing amount of dev resources as well, they wrote an entire cloud platform (they're at maybe 10% of AWS) from scratch, in C.

dm3730 10y ago
> entire cloud platform (they're at maybe 10% of AWS) from scratch, in C Impressive. Any link to this? I'd love to take a look.
- org3432 10y ago
  Their public cloud is http://qcloud.com/ http://qcloud.com/, I don't think everything they've written on the backend is public however.
  - kristianov 10y ago
    It has nothing to do with WeChat. qcloud is developed by TEG (Tech. Engineering Group), and the cloud service for WeChat is developed by WXG (Weixin Group).
- est 10y ago
  In C++ actually. Few years back Tencent had three internal teams making Wechat, the GuangZhou based Foxmail team won. Wechat IM protocol is basically a modified version of Microsoft Exchange.