Tencent released a “2022 Tencent R&D Big Data Report” (referred to as the “Report”). The “Report” was produced by the Tencent Technology Committee and fully disclosed Tencent’s important data on R&D investment, R&D efficiency, and open source collaboration in 2022.

R&D personnel accounted for 74%, and the Go language continued to be the most popular programming language in Tencent

The “Report” shows that in 2022, the proportion of Tencent’s internal R&D personnel will reach 74%, which means that on average, three out of every four Tencent employees are engaged in R&D work. Last year, Tencent added more than 7,000 R&D projects, an increase of 19.8% compared to 2021; the number of new lines of code was 2.94 billion, the number of new code libraries was 210,000, and the average daily code submission was 127,000 times. The average daily API call volume of the basic R&D platform is 120 million times, which is a three-fold increase compared to 2022.

In terms of code quality, Tencent will complete a total of 2.62 million code reviews in 2022, an increase of 21.8% compared to 2021, and the code review participation rate will reach 74.6%. The total time spent on code review reached 460,000 hours, the per capita code review time was 12.6 hours, and the number of thousand-line comments for code review was 15.3, a year-on-year increase of 75.4%.

In addition, with the rapid development of cloud computing and other technologies, the Go language continues to be the most popular programming language in Tencent. Compared with 2021, the next-generation programming languages ​​Kotlin, Swift, and Rust, which have features such as safety, convenience, speed, and portability, are growing faster.

The number of global patent applications exceeds 60,000

Tencent continues to invest in basic software research and development, and its research and development investment in the first to third quarters of 2022 will reach 45.5 billion.up to 2022Year 12In March, the total number of patent applications published by Tencent in major countries and regions around the world exceeded 6.2The number of patent authorizations exceeds 30,000.According to recent statistics from the agency statista based on LexisNexis PatentSight data, Tencent will surpass Microsoft in the number of AI patents it owns in 2021 and become the world’s number one.

In terms of basic software, Tencent currently has full-link self-development capabilities for server operating systems, initiated and deeply participated in the OpenCloudOS operating system open source community; and has been shortlisted for the sixth consecutive year in the global enterprise KVM open source contribution list. KVM is the core of the Linux kernel One of the modules.

The self-developed rate of the TDSQL core code of Tencent Cloud Database has reached 100%. In the field of compilers, Tencent has repeatedly ranked first in the contribution of domestic manufacturers in the OpenJDK community and ranked among the top five in the world.

At present, Tencent has released 3 self-developed chips, oriented to the three major scenarios of AI reasoning, video processing and high-performance network; Tencent’s self-developed mobile robots Max and Ollie released new versions, and for the first time integrated intelligent agents, deep learning, Sim2Real and tactile sensor technologies.

35% of requests are published and launched within one day70% of the bugs were resolved within two days

2022years, TencentAnnounced that the self-developed business has completed full cloud migrationthe R&D process is fully implemented in cloud nativeD.evops. According to the report, more than 90%Business R&D through Tencent CICloud-native pipeline construction and deployment shortens construction time by 60%Deployment efficiency increased by 75%.

Tencent inIn 2006, it began to promote the agile evolution of the R&D model. At present, it has formed an enterprise-level agile R&D system including multiple research tools such as the agile R&D collaboration platform TAPD, the code management platform worker bee, and the intelligent continuous integration platform Tencent CI. In 2022, TencentTAPD automation assistant functionThe average number of executions per month exceeds 10010,000 times, the daily average of the basic research and development platform is AP.I.The number of calls reached 1.2billion times, compared to 20203 times the annual growth rate.

“Report” data show that in 2022In 2018, Tencent completed the daily demand of 8050and the average planning time of each iteration is 15days, the average number of requirements completed in each iteration25of which 35%requirements can be released online within one day, 70%The bugs were resolved within two days.

In terms of continuous delivery, 2022years, TencentAverage weekly builds3300,000 times,YoY growth 25.9%;Project product annual output 9PB;Push to fix code bugs and security vulnerabilities over 35010,000, the compilation acceleration saves the total compilation time of more than 50million hours.

The open source rate of the internal code base has exceeded 80% for four consecutive years

embrace open source,Closely participate in the construction of open source communities.The “Report” shows that Tencent’s internalcode repositoryOpen source ratefour consecutive yearsKeepexistMore than 80%. Company-level collaborative Oteam(Short for Open Source Collaborative Group)total up to 147indivual,includingbig data, database,AI.Dozens of fields such as research efficiency and safety.The total number of code contributors has reached5814people, and the total number of departments participating in the collaborative construction has reached 332indivual.

In terms of open source,TencentHe has led 9 world-renowned open source projects such as LinuxKVM and JDK, and has open sourced more than 160 projects, ranking among the top ten in the global enterprise open source list, and has won more than 40Tens of thousands of developers follow and like.

In the training of open source talents, Tencent cooperates with universities to carry out an open source talent training plan. At present, it has covered more than 1,000 students from 13 countries, 29 provinces, and 265 domestic and foreign colleges and universities.