nyslfriends Chapter 127 Public Beta
Chapter 127 Public Beta
The night was deep, and countless stars were reflected on the windowpane.
The club activity room was still brightly lit, like an inextinguishable lighthouse in the darkness.
"Hey, the log patch is complete!"
"Received! The UI changes have been merged into the main branch."
"Alright, let's start running all the test cases."
The crisp clicks of the mechanical keyboard, the hum of the high-load computer case fan, and the occasional light laughter interspersed throughout created a strange symphony.
"laughter?"
Li Xiangyu, holding a half-full cup of coffee, leaned back in his chair, lost in deep philosophical contemplation.
That's not right!
This is definitely not how normal development work should be!
Normally, by this time, everyone would be exhausted, both physically and mentally, from troubleshooting a damn bug!
They even went so far as to shift blame and hurl insults at each other's family trees!
But now?
The entire team was like a rocket, unstoppable!
All progress is proceeding at an outrageously smooth pace, strictly adhering to the timeline, and incredibly smoothly!
Li Xiangyu turned his head and saw Su Hao standing in front of the whiteboard again, holding a marker and writing formulas attentively.
With just a few extremely simple curves and a few profound mathematical expressions, the most critical underlying problem was solved in an instant, as easily as cutting tofu!
Moreover, now, no one in the activity room dares to raise even the slightest doubt.
These people have long been completely convinced and impressed.
Li Xiangyu watched the boy's retreating figure quietly, a fleeting, ordinary sense of inferiority flashing across his face.
But he quickly put those pointless emotions behind him and chuckled with relief.
"What the hell am I suspecting?"
Li Xiangyu cursed himself inwardly.
"That was a peerless genius who proved the four-color theorem single-handedly!"
How could such a genius brain not be able to handle mere code logic!
Isn't it their right to crush us mere mortals?!
Having figured this out, the echoing keyboard sounds in the activity room once again sounded light and pleasant to Li Xiangyu.
"Um... Zhang Man, is it absolutely necessary for us to use this UI?"
Li Xiangyu leaned close behind Zhang Man, looked at the screen, and cautiously probed.
But Zhang Man didn't even turn her head, her gaze focused, as she continued to adjust the pixels by scrolling the mouse wheel.
In the center of the screen, a very conspicuous yellow duck icon is floating.
It was drawn with extremely smooth vector graphics. Although the lines were very simple, it had a strange magic that was very eye-catching.
What's even more amazing is that the duck's eyes are simply represented by two small black dots.
When you hover the mouse cursor over it, it even plays a playful "winking" animation effect, as if it has been injected with real life!
Click.
Li Xiangyu suppressed the urge to complain and tentatively clicked the bright yellow reservation button.
The little duck on the screen immediately flapped its two short wings excitedly.
Immediately afterwards, an extremely loud and catchy sound effect came from the speaker:
quack!
"Uh..." Li Xiangyu felt his blood pressure was a little high.
"Zhang Man, I know this duck is really cute, but wake up!"
This is our student union's official app, after all! Can't it be a little more professional?
"You know nothing! This is for the best!"
Zhang Man stood her ground, her tone resolute: "That's called brand recognition!"
Li Xiangyu covered his face in pain, and mumbled through his fingers:
"Then at least change the sound effect to a regular 'beep' sound, okay?"
That "squeak" made our entire project team seem far too frivolous!
"Absolutely not!" Zhang Man refused decisively, protecting the screen like a mother protecting her child.
"This is the exclusive celebratory sound effect for a successful reservation; it's the soul of the little yellow duck!"
Seeing that Li Xiangyu was on the verge of a breakdown, Fang Jun quickly stepped in to smooth things over.
"I think it's great. As long as the students at our school like using it, that's fine."
Make the character more adorable, maximize the contrast and cuteness, and everyone's acceptance and usage rate will definitely increase dramatically!
Vice President Liu Jie looked at the adorable duck and nodded in agreement.
I think it's good too.
Even if it's a student-led app, there's no need to make it as rigid and inflexible as those stagnant government apps!
We need to embrace youthfulness; connecting with the people is the key!
After receiving positive feedback from everyone, Zhang Man, who was already in high spirits, let loose and added a magical transition animation to the system.
Click.
When the system notification "Laundry complete" is displayed, the screen changes, and the little yellow duck instantly appears next to a huge laundry basket.
Then, in a very anthropomorphic way, it picked up a large clump of clothes with its mouth, and with its two short legs, it painstakingly carried it into the dryer next to it, its movements cute and comical.
"Yay! Now it's completely perfect!"
Zhang Man suddenly turned her chair around, looked at the stunned crowd, and declared the birth of art with a righteous air!
At this point, all the bugs have been completely eliminated, and the controversial UI has been finalized and locked in storage.
All test cases are showing green (positive results), with no errors reported!
At this moment, in the long list of task checkboxes on the whiteboard, only the last, and most exciting, item remains:
[Open Beta Test]
"Alright, everyone." Li Xiangyu took a deep breath, his expression turning serious.
"Let's get ready for the public beta!"
In previous stress tests, the internal Alpha version was incredibly stable, without even a single punctuation mark causing an error.
Following rigorous software industry standards, reaching this point...
They should have first recruited a group of volunteers on the forum to conduct a confidential, closed-door test to detect potential problems and prevent a large-scale avalanche.
But everyone in that room was now bloated with pride!
Their eyes burned with boundless confidence!
A fatal underlying bug?
It has been completely crushed and repaired by that man with pure intelligence!
Thousands of test cases?
Passed with full marks!
And what about simulating concurrent data several times the number of teachers and students in the entire school?
Equally stable, with all indicators so smooth it's like a work of art!
Fang Jun rubbed his hands together with a smile, his tone revealing eagerness:
"The news about the app has been circulating for a while now, and people in various groups are asking about it."
I bet all the students in the school are holding their dirty clothes and eagerly waiting.
Stop dawdling and go online!
Zhang Man nodded solemnly:
"The backup rollback plan is also fully prepared. Everything is foolproof."
Even at this historically significant moment, Su Hao stood aside, his eyes still showing a hint of bewilderment.
He still lacks any real sense of connection to the upcoming release of the app he designed himself.
It was as if he had simply solved a not-too-difficult homework problem.
Li Xiangyu took a deep breath, dragged the mouse, and steadily uploaded the final version, which embodied countless efforts from everyone, to the cloud server.
He paused a second before his index finger was about to click the "Deploy" button.
The activity room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop; everyone even held their breath unconsciously.
"Su Hao, you can order."
Li Xiangyu suddenly removed his hand from the mouse, turned to the side, and looked at Su Hao solemnly.
"After all, you are the true chief architect of this app!"
"Oh my god! Giving the first release rights to our chief designer? That's great, President. You really understand the romance of programmers!" Zhang Man immediately chimed in.
"Agreed! It has to be Su Shen!" the others echoed.
Seeing the expectant looks in everyone's eyes, Su Hao didn't act coy.
"Then... I'll do it."
He took a deep breath, stood up, walked to the computer, and firmly grasped the still-warm mouse.
His gaze was fixed on the screen, and his index finger twitched slightly.
Click—!
A crisp mouse click sounded.
The moment I pressed the deploy button, it felt like I had turned on the switch to a new world.
The progress bar at the top of the screen began to advance slowly, carrying a sense of sacred mission.
[Deploying build....]
Watching the progress bar tick by, Li Xiangyu couldn't help but mutter to himself:
"This is fucking magical..."
We actually used such a top-tier system architecture just to reserve a washing machine at the school!
This is overkill! This is fucking overkill!
"It's like using a Star Destroyer to swat mosquitoes!"
Apart from Su Hao, who remained calm and took it all for granted, everyone present heard this complaint and nodded frantically in agreement.
Perhaps because the student union had made a high-profile announcement on various forums in advance, the number of downloads for the app surged like a volcanic eruption in a very short time after its launch!
"The number of concurrent connections has exceeded twenty."
"Seventy people! And the number is still rising!"
"Yay! It's broken 100! And it's still going up!"
Su Hao pulled up a chair and sat down, calmly watching the screen as his eyes monitored the running logs that scrolled like a waterfall in real time.
As he expected, the massive influx of traffic was being stably distributed to various servers by the load balancing nodes he had designed.
Only after confirming that all the pre-set architectures were functioning correctly according to the mathematical model he had constructed did Su Hao's tense shoulders relax slightly, and he let out a long sigh of relief.