When I joined Business Process and Information Technology Department of Baidu.inc, I was assigned to a team which was responsible for a development of the Internet giant's ERP system. During my service at the company, I was amazed by the amount of efficiency improvement owning to process management software. Meanwhile, there exists such a similarity between Redux, which is a functional programming based framework suggested by Facebook, and ERP process management.

Redux and Functional Programming

What is Redux?​

Redux is a Javascript library that is based on concept of Flux, which provides a great framework to maintain state management (it plays a crucial role combining with React.js which renders JSX based on state-change). Following diagram illustrates a simple paradigm.

I have almost done my summer internship at Baidu.inc. As a Chinese person, it has been a dream to work for Baidu, since it is not only the Chinese Google, it is also the Chinese Reddit (Baidu Tieba) and Quara (Baidu Zhidao), and Baidu has Andrew Ng who is a rockstar in Artificial Intelligence working as a Chief Scientist. I did get a few decent offers from tech firms in Canada, but eventually I decided to work in Beijing just to experience the Internet world and see how it is going in China.

Memories

Me and My Tech Lead​

My tech lead is an admirable person in terms of personalities and technologies. He used to work for Atlanssian™, the producer of Jira and SourceTree. He has great sense of Agile Development.

Robin Li​

CEO of Baidu speaks at summer party